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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
Carter-Orange:
--- 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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When I first started writing, my goal was just to write a story as I hadn't written anything since school. I achieved that and went on to write a few romance stories. My next goal was to write something non-romantic and I've written things as un-romantic as you can get with bot flies, time travel, serial killers, killer video games LOL.
I think my next goal should be to finish my neglected story.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2013, 03:32:55 PM ---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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I wrote romance stories on the Take That site because that's all there was! I didn't even know that people wrote anything else (yes, I was that clueless LOL). It wasn't until I discovered AC and realised that there was more to fanfic than just romance. I still love a good romance, but now I also love most other genres too and have had a go at writing in most of them. The closest I've come to writing slash was a Take That one-shot where I had my man Jason kissing one of the other guys.
Sakabelle:
--- 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 am going to guess it's a mixture of there always being slash fans, with the added subject that so many 1D fans actually believe that some of them are in a relationship.. . which stems from the boys themselves being incredibly flirtatious and sexual with each other on stage and in interviews.
I would have guessed romance as the most popular genre in BSB fandom, and judging by Julie's statistics, it seems I'm right! I'd say it was probably like that ten years ago as well, there was just more of it, along with everything else. There was definitely a lot more slash in BSB fandom back then - but I also think it depends on the archive. Over here, there's not a lot of it. Scrolling through the BSB section of Archive of Our Own (which doesn't appear to be overly active) the bulk of it seems to be slash.
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2013, 01:58:37 PM ---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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My very first fanfic was a best friends fall in love type thing where Nick ends up with me, and I wrote it because (as my friend described it when we were twelve) it was the closest we were ever going to get to any of our fantasies. LOL.
Aside from that we also wrote stories about the boys just going about their daily lives and having (what we thought were) hilarious shenanigans. I suppose in that regard I haven't branched out a lot - I still write romance (though I'm no longer a character in the stories) and I still write about the boys day to day shenanigans.
Obviously where I've branched out a bit more is writing slash in another fandom. Also, my writing's a lot darker and more angsty now than it was back then! I suppose that makes sense, since I wouldn't have written that way when I was twelve haha.
mare:
My very first fanfic was suspense. I decided to write it after reading Ground Zero and being really inspired by that! I have never left my love for writing suspense, but I have branched out to almost every other genre since then. Actually I think I have written in every single genre since then. Wow, go me! After my little romance a few weeks ago, I think I really have covered everything else except for the mpreg maybe lol yeah, I won't be going there.
usako:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on July 05, 2013, 07:30:00 PM ---There was definitely a lot more slash in BSB fandom back then - but I also think it depends on the archive. Over here, there's not a lot of it. Scrolling through the BSB section of Archive of Our Own (which doesn't appear to be overly active) the bulk of it seems to be slash.
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Being a slash writer and reader, I've to say that BSB slash is pretty much dead. Those stories on Archive of Our Own are only old stories posted previously on livejournal. It's very, very, very difficult to find something new to read (and good, since I'm a pricky reader.) and sometimes I feel like I'm the last one writing it. :D :D :D
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2013, 03:32:55 PM ---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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My very first fanfic wasn't slash but it was a Frick and Frack still. The reason was because I was so sick and tired to find stories that only had as main plot a love story and where the attention wa on the female character. I don't want to read about the girl being tortured/beated/hurt/sick/dying, I want to read about the guys dealing with these things. lol The only het I started to write (and then erased it because it sucked) was about Brian meeting this girl that then ended up threatening him to hurt the other guys if he didn't stay with her. :D
Then I discovered the world of slash and since then I've only written that genre. Still, I don't write only romance. My very first long (that it still is waiting to be finished) is a drama/suspence (poor Brian), I've started a fantasy, a sort of humour story where Brian was a sort of Tukedo Kamen from Sailor Moon. I still have to write a good medic fic about Brian and that is definetely one of my goal as an author.
--- Quote from: mare on July 06, 2013, 06:33:57 AM ---I think I really have covered everything else except for the mpreg maybe lol yeah, I won't be going there.
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I did! :D :D :D Another way to torture Brian :D :D :D
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