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Question of the day part 6
mare:
Okay I was kind of waiting on someone to answer this first because I'm a little confused as to what you mean. I know what a guilty pleasure is but I'm not exactly sure in terms of writing what to consider as a guilty pleasure because in my mind writing any fanfic in general is a guilty pleasure lol I know there are some stories I've read that I might consider guilty pleasures in that they just make me feel warm & fuzzy even though they may not be the best or most realistic stories, but then again I really am not one to turn to fanfic to make me feel better. So, someone else answer this and then maybe I'll be able to get a better idea? Julie, what's your answer to this question? lol
RokofAges75:
Okay, I'll answer first, and maybe that will help clarify!
I agree that fanfic in itself is pretty much all a guilty pleasure LOL, but I mean a story you've written that you felt like maybe you "shouldn't be" writing, maybe because it involved a certain fandom or genre or cliched idea or whatever might make you feel "guilty" about writing it... yet you had fun writing it anyway!
Of my early stories, the biggest guilty pleasure was a story called Through Thick and Thin, which was basically the non-parody version of Not Another Teenybopper Fanfic LOL. It was such a teeny fic! It was about a girl band, consisting of four characters who were based on myself and my friends, who get discovered by the Backstreet Boys while performing at an open mic night and given a record deal and invited on tour as the opening act. Of course, the four girls fall in love with the Boys (except Kevin, because none of my friends liked Kevin), and there was lots and lots of drama. I killed Leighanne in a car accident so that my character could hook up with Brian. I gave one of the girls an eating disorder and killed another one with cancer. I killed Howie's baby. It was a total soap opera! It was so bad that I knew even as I was writing it that it was a cheesy bopper fic, because it's not like it was my first fanfic, but it was fun to write anyway. THAT'S a guilty pleasure!
Of my recent stories, the biggest guilty pleasure I've written is Curtain Call. I literally felt guilty when I started writing it because I had just started posting Guilty Roads and was NOT looking to start another story. Then I felt like I shouldn't write it because it was another Nick cancer story, and I didn't want people to think that I was trying recapture the "magic" of Broken/BMS or that that's all I'm capable of writing. But I had fun writing it, and I'm glad people liked it!
Hope that helps! So does anyone else have a guilty pleasure story?
mare:
Thanks, Julie! That did actually help a lot! lol I guess I have two stories that would fit into the guilty pleasure category then.
Five Backstreet Boys in Search of a Plot was just something the three of us wanted to write for us, mostly for the purpose of amusing each other. It was so much fun writing in genres I would normally never write in, like slash or crossovers. Doing things like using the ingredients from a cereal box as the medical lingo and being able to write an entire musical chapter were just fun and we didn't really care about how believable any of it was. We were over the top and loved it!
To Protect and Serve is the other one. I wrote it was because I wanted to read something like it. The boys as brothers but not in a dramatic setting like Mel's but an action adventure setting where they are looking out for each other and being overly protective. Kevin as an FBI agent, Howie as his partner. Brian as a first year in training under them, AJ as a fireman and Nick as the rebellious teen brother getting into all kinds of trouble. Yeah, I wrote that mainly for my own enjoyment. lol
mare:
Oh, one more guilty pleasure and that was my latest story in Scatteted Pictures. I really just wanted to write an old school silly story with the main focus being a ghost story lol that was mainly for me as well!
FrickingKaos:
My guilty pleasure fanfic would have to be Jizzle Of Oz. Not only was it a direct movie parody....but it was full of cliche jokes and just old school BSB humor. I loved writing it. Especially Leighanne and her putting all the munchkins in wylee tees lol
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