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Question of the day part 6
RokofAges75:
It's funny that you kept saying you wrote those stories because they were something you wanted to read, Mare. How many of you do that, write the kind of stories you would want to read?
For those of you who do, here are some follow-up questions:
1. What are some of the stories you've written because they were something you would want to read?
2. Have you ever actually gone back and read those stories, and if so, do you think you enjoyed them as much as you would have if you hadn't been the one who wrote them?
3. Are there any stories you've written that you don't think you would read if someone else had written them?
mare:
It's funny because for me that was one of my definitions of guilty pleasure. Something I wrote mainly for my own entertainment more so than anyone else's lol
1. Quite a few of them were written because they were things I would have liked to read. What Lurks Around the Corner, It Stays With You, Cough Medicine, Why I'd Do it all Again, Shadow Woods, Separate Ways and Protect and Serve lol All of them kind of happened because I wanted to read something along those lines but no one was complying with me!
2. As of now, the one I'm currently reading is Cough Medicine but I do eventually plan on reading all of the ones above and honestly I'm looking forward to reading a couple of them. So far I am enjoying Cough Medicine, even though it's making me cringe. I am enjoying the suspense and action element of it and that's what I do look for when looking for something to read. I think I would have enjoyed them all a lot more if it was someone else who wrote them. It kind of sucks a bit of the fun out of it when you already know what's going to happen unless your like me and have NO memory of a few like A Million Little Things. When I read that it was like reading someone else's story because I didn't remember it at all! lmao How sad is that? :(
3. There are a lot of stories I know I wouldn't read if I didn't write them. LOL Whatever the Night May Bring being the most recent. I would have never even clicked on that one! I am picky when it comes to reading so I'm pretty sure if I saw anyone was a lead besides Nick l would have no interest at all.
RokofAges75:
I feel like most of what I write is stuff I would want to read, especially my medical dramas. I have always enjoyed those kinds of stories, not just in fanfic, but in real books and TV shows too. Luckily, I'm not the only one, or I wouldn't have any readers LOL.
The only one of those stories that I've actually really enjoyed reading just as a reader, though, is Curtain Call. That was a first for me. Any other time, I've been too busy looking at the story through my writer's lens (and cringing) to really enjoy it. And like you said, Mare, it's hard when you already know what's coming. I do think I would have enjoyed reading stories like Broken and BMS, Beside the Ocean, and Identical if someone else had written them. And probably most of my older stories, if someone had taken the same storyline and written them better. (But back in 2000, I probably would have enjoyed them the way I wrote them because my standards were lower! LOL)
00Carter is the big one that I'm pretty sure I never would have even clicked on if I hadn't been involved in writing it LOL. I love a good parody, but I'm not into the James Bond stuff, and I've only read a few AUs that I really got into, so 00Carter is not my type of story at all. But as one of the writers, it's one that I love going back to read certain scenes of. I think most of my other stories have something that would attract me to them, whether it be Brian or Nick, medical drama, suspense, or zombies LOL. Like I said, I usually write what I like to read!
Carter-Orange:
1. What are some of the stories you've written because they were something you would want to read?
Games, Save A Prayer, Rewind, Unwinding Truth, Maybe Tomorrow, Patience (Take That story)
2. Have you ever actually gone back and read those stories, and if so, do you think you enjoyed them as much as you would have if you hadn't been the one who wrote them?
I re-read Games a couple of days ago and really enjoyed it, so if someone else had written it, I would've liked it too. I'm currently re-reading Patience, which is a story I wrote when I first discovered fanfics (although it's not the first one I wrote, probably the third). So far I'm enjoying it, but I'm not that far into the story yet. I think I'd read it by someone else though.
3. Are there any stories you've written that you don't think you would read if someone else had written them?
Plenty! But the only one posted here is Forces of Nature. I do have a couple of cringe worthy one-shots, but I'm not sure which ones they are :)
Sakabelle:
Yeah... I guess anything I've written in the past four months counts as a guilty pleasure lol.
But specifically I am currently writing a 1D/BSB crossover in which Nick sorta goes after one of the 1D guys girlfriends. It's basically complete but I haven't posted it anywhere because I'm so ashamed that I actually wrote something like that LOL. I had already planned to do a story about Nick taking a younger artist onto his label and mentoring them and writing a story about their relationship/friendship... and then I realized I already had a young female popstar character created...and it sort of spiraled out of control from there. Not gonna lie though, it is a lot of fun to write.
1. What are some of the stories you've written because they were something you would want to read?
A lot of my focus-fail one-shots come from something I'd like to see explored in more depth. Like Nick angsting over Brian and Leighanne's wedding, for instance.
2. Have you ever actually gone back and read those stories, and if so, do you think you enjoyed them as much as you would have if you hadn't been the one who wrote them?
I haven't actually gone back and read too many of my one-shots! I think I'd be too critical of them though and wouldn't be able to separate myself as the person who wrote it from my enjoyment of it. I'd still have writer-brain going and think about awkward flowing sentences, I think.
3. Are there any stories you've written that you don't think you would read if someone else had written them?
Uh, yeah! Probably Left and Leaving. The plot of that even bored me while I was writing it.
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