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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
Carter-Orange:
New question: What do you do in real life, and what impact does it have on your writing? Do you tend to include things you know a lot about from your job and/or hobbies in your stories? Are you an expert at anything that comes in handy when writing fiction?
I work for an IT company as a service desk analyst (one of those people who remotes on to your computer and tries to fix it). I don't think it has much of an impact on what I write about, I prefer to write about something other than computers lol. Whenever possible I like to write about places I know, although that doesn't happen when writing BSB stories. I'm an expert at nothing!
FrickingKaos:
I am pretty sure you all know this already but I have been working at Taco Bell for about 11 years and White Castle for about 8. I have written about my job in Tales From The Drive Thru...other than that I do not really mention my job much in my writing.
As a kid I played basketball so whem writing At The Beginning i incorporated this. I usually try to use my hobbies and interests in my stories. I write about what I know.
RokofAges75:
I'm a 4th grade (9- and 10-year-olds) teacher, but aside from making a few of my characters teachers, I don't use much from my job in my writing. If I wrote more child characters, I probably would.
I'm far from an expert, but I have some background in music from years of taking piano lessons, playing the clarinet in band, and singing in choir, and that has come in handy for scenes when the guys are singing or playing music. I can read music and have a pretty solid knowledge of musical terminology and structure. I don't know much about the music business, though, besides what I've learned just from years of being a fan, so I find that aspect of it a lot harder to write.
I don't really have any other big hobbies besides writing, but I've been interested in medical stuff since I was kid, and that obviously comes into play in my stories a lot. I don't have much real life experience to draw on, but I have taken anatomy classes, watched a lot of medical shows on TV, read a lot of books, and done a lot of research on that kind of stuff so I can use it in my writing.
emilo:
I have incorporated songs into my stories before. Mainly, I have my characters actually sing them, but I end up making the lyrics relatable to the current theme in the story. I agree that it's kind of corny, but in real-life, when there is a song on the radio that I'm digging, I end up either somehow relating it in my head to something I've gone through, or even creating a story in my head to go with it, so I think it's fun to translate that over to fanfic. The only time I've ever actually used BSB songs is when I'm writing about their performances or album production. Or there was the time I wrote about Nick hearing his own song on the radio and jamming out to it. haha. I don't tend to imagine a certain song when I'm reading a story, but I have, on occasion, been known to play an appropriate song in the background while I'm writing a particular scene.
In real life, I'm a pharmacist. I work part-time at our local hospital and stay home with my almost three year old the rest of the time. I have definitely incorporated some medical knowledge into my fics, and some "toddler knowledge" too. Like a lot of the rest of you, I do have some background music knowledge, and I'm somewhat of a vocalist (like church and the company talent show at this point). I was also in band and choir (show choir, actually, so I know how to put on a production..lo l).
emilo:
New question for all of you veteran fanfic writers (so, like, everyone but me. lol) If you are a sequel writer, how much of the previous story do you reveal in your sequel?
The reason I ask is that I'm writing one right now, and it's going to be a totally different genre from the original, so I feel like I may have a bit of a different group of readers this time around who may not particularly enjoy reading the original. I don't want to completely confuse them by leaving plot holes in the story that can only be explained by reading the original, but I don't want to give away so much that if someone decides to go back and read the original, they already know everything that's going to happen. This is a completely selfish question, but I thought it would also be appropriate discussion for this thread.
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