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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
mare:
^ that's interesting, why do you think that is?
And yay Emily! :)
okay, I guess this is a good question to tie into what Steph is talking about.
At the moment, what do you feel is the most popular genre in the BSB fandom and do you think it's always been that way?
I would say when I first started reading BSB fic about ten years or so ago, I think slash was one of the biggies for this fandom as well.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 03, 2013, 09:14:49 PM ---What were/are some of your goals as a fanfic writer and have you been able to achieve them?
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My goal right now is just to keep writing on Guilty Roads. I guess that's always my goal - to finish whatever story/stories I'm working on LOL.
There are really two types of goals I've had as a fanfic writer: goals related to writing itself and goals related to being recognized for my writing. My writing goals have been things like developing strong characters, crafting unique storylines, researching to make my writing accurate, writing in different genres, and writing a story that could translate to original fiction. My recognition goals have been more along the lines of getting feedback/reviews, boosting my site's traffic, seeing my site and stories recommended on other sites, being nominated for and winning awards, and earning a spot in the Top Tens on AC.
I've been able to achieve most of the goals I've had in mind. At this point, my goals are just to continue writing, finish the stories I've started before moving on to new ones, and keep improving as a writer.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2013, 01:58:37 PM ---^ that's interesting, why do you think that is?
And yay Emily! :)
okay, I guess this is a good question to tie into what Steph is talking about.
At the moment, what do you feel is the most popular genre in the BSB fandom and do you think it's always been that way?
I would say when I first started reading BSB fic about ten years or so ago, I think slash was one of the biggies for this fandom as well.
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I think the most popular genre in the BSB fandom is romance and has always been romance. Slash seemed to be more popular ten years ago than it is today, but I don't think it ever surpassed het romance in popularity.
Het romance, on the other hand, seems to dominate the fandom even more these days than it did when I started reading in 1999. It was popular back then too, of course, but so were a lot of other genres. There were more medical drama, suspense, sci-fi, and fantasy than I see on AC these days.
Just out of curiosity, I did some counting, and almost 63% (10 out of 16) of the BSB fics on the Most Recent pages right now are romance. If you look at all the BSB fics on AC, though, the percentage is different. There are 163 pages of BSB fics if you go through the Categories section. Search for only the romance fics within that category, and it goes down to 79 pages. That's roughly 48% (and probably includes slash). That tells me that there is a wider variety of genres on AC than what we see on the Most Recent page most days, but romance is dominating more now than it has over the whole history of AC. Still, the fact that almost half of the stories on AC include romance shows how popular it's always been.
mare:
I can't believe you took the time to research that! LOL
I agree, It think romance is by far the most popular at the moment, just judging by the most recent page alone. I remember ten years ago as well that it was all about slash versus het. Sex was the underlying factor in a lot of the stories back then which is why I think visuals whether they were slash based or 'het' based seemed to be really popular. I have to say, that even though sex does play an important part in a lot of the stories on AC now, most of them tend to have more to do with the actual relationship of the characters than the 'hot sex' they tend to have. That's something I see as a positive.
I also think when they were younger, and I guess we were younger lol Imaginations tended to run more wild with the possibility of what you wanted to do with a Backstreet Boy? Maybe as people started to mature so did their writing.
As far as variety, I think back then there was so much more to choose from because there were so many more of us writing. Most of the people who wrote in the versatile styles like Suspense, Sci Fi, Medical etc... have kind of left the fandom, moved on etc... Which is why the percentages are most likely so different when you compare the entire site to the most recent page.
mare:
Along this line of thought, what made you decide to write in the genre you did when you wrote your very first fanfic and have you managed to branch out or do you still stick to the same style you started with?
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