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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
RokofAges75:
When you're trying to stick to writing one story, and you get an idea for another that you can't get out of your head, what do you do? How do you stay focused on one project at a time?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 12, 2013, 10:18:05 PM ---Get back on his foot! lmao I love you!
You pretty much answered my question exactly how I would have, Julie. I feel the same about sequels and series and tend to ask myself those very same questions before I read the next story. I believe I have only ever read one full series and that was the Swollen Issues one because I needed to find out what happened to Nick in the end. I do feel like most of the time, sequels exist mainly because it is hard to give up characters after investing so much time into them, but unless those characters grip me to the point that I NEED to know what happens next, I tend to bid them farewell at the end of the first story.
I do enjoy series when it comes to books but aside from the Harry Potter books which I felt like got better and better with each one, most of the others to me tend to go the other way. Hunger Games is an example of that. By the third book I kept saying "Oh she wrote this one because she was commissioned for three books!" LOL and those Flowers in the Attic books and the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I've never read the Angel Series, but it sounds like the same idea.
I usually never watch a sequel to a movie for that same reason.
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I agree with you on the series you mentioned, at least Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. I haven't read the other ones. But yeah, while I thought the first two Hunger Games were really good, the third one totally jumped the shark. It was just too much.
I was the same way with Swollen Issues, and while I love that series, even it was a little too much. Some fanfic series are more like soap operas, in that they just keep going and going and going and get SO ridiculous. And yet, as long as you don't care about reality LOL, they can still be really entertaining. That's why people watch soap operas, right? I watched Days of Our Lives for about a year, and it was so ridiculous, it WAS entertaining!
mare:
Yup, I felt the same way about Swollen Issues as well. LOL
mare:
What are some of your secrets when it comes to reading/writing fanfic? Or about the boys or any other fandom in general?
Think of this question as a Backstreet confessional of sorts? lol
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 12, 2013, 10:19:22 PM ---When you're trying to stick to writing one story, and you get an idea for another that you can't get out of your head, what do you do? How do you stay focused on one project at a time?
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When that happens to me and the idea won't go away, I just tend to go ahead and write the first chapter of that story without posting it though. Also there have been times that I have used the idea in one of my current stories instead of writing another one. Some of my biggest twists and turns have come about because I took a story idea and made it into a plot twist instead.
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