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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
usako:
How do you feel about sequels and series in general? Do you write them and or read them? Do you know ahead of time that you will be writing a bunch of stories or do you make that decision later on?
I love them, both reading and writing. Aside oneshot or stories that stand alone, I always imagine my stories as telefilms, so each one is like a season, made of episodes (stories). I believe it's because I tend to literally live with my charactes so it's hard to let them go. So, when I plan a story, I always ask myself if the plot can be stretched or deserved a sequel. Like "Love Story". I've always knew that I was going to write more stories about them, that's why I left the ending open: there is still a lot to tell and that's because it's AU.
The story that I'm currently planning already have a sequel and that's because it's a fantasy, with Brian as an half uman and half angel. ;D
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 13, 2013, 02:50:07 PM ---I don't see our fandom as being really small, but I guess we are compared to the ones that are huge right now, like One Direction and Harry Potter. People here may still eat you alive if they have to wait years on a chapter, but at least they'll remember you. Your story would be lost in the shuffle on some of the bigger sites! When I posted my HP crossover on fanfiction.net last year, it was crazy how quickly it disappeared from whatever the equivalent of their most recent page is. I didn't expect to get any reviews because I didn't expect anyone to even be able to find it! As I've said before, I love that AC is active, but not so crazy active that it's hard to keep up. It's nice that when you update, your story usually stays on the Most Recent page for at least a couple of days so people can see it.
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I forgot to add that we were talking about the Italian BSB fandom, sorry :). It's really really small. So small that on the main fanfiction archive, I'm the only one who keeps it alive. :D That was part of the reason why I decided to join the AC.
But yes, I agree with you. I love that our fandom is small. ;D
mare:
--- Quote from: mare on July 13, 2013, 05:50:44 AM ---I love how we're coming up with all these questions now in the summer since usually the rest of the year this thread is completely dead! lol
So, here's another question!
Do you tend to post your chapters right after you write them or do you sit on a few and then post sporadically so you stay ahead of yourself? Or do you wait until you are completely done with the story before you start to post?
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When I was updating frequently, I always stayed ahead of myself by five chapters. I wouldn't post the first chapter until the fifth one was written. Mainly because I wanted to make sure it was something I was going to commit to before posting it for everyone and I wanted to be able to update at least once a week consistently while I was still writing the novel. I gave myself a goal of writing one chapter a week and that kind of always kept me ahead of myself. Granted, it didn't always work and most of the time I ended up catching up to myself LOL
I have also done the instantaneous posting. I agree with what Julie said, it's fun to post those and get that instant gratification because it does lose it's oomph by the time it's posted otherwise! I remember with Whatever the Night, I was sitting on those chapters and had written Donald Trump as president long before he decided to run and I kept smacking myself thinking "I wish I had posted this before the fact because now everyone will think I wrote it because he decided to run!" LOL
I have never waited for a story to be complete. I don't think I have the patience to do that.
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 13, 2013, 02:13:42 PM ---I feel like I would totally jump the shark if I tried that with mine, but that's interesting!
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I'm sure I've jumped plenty of sharks lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: usako on July 13, 2013, 02:55:33 PM ---I forgot to add that we were talking about the Italian BSB fandom, sorry :). It's really really small. So small that on the main fanfiction archive, I'm the only one who keeps it alive. :D That was part of the reason why I decided to join the AC.
But yes, I agree with you. I love that our fandom is small. ;D
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Ohh, okay. Yeah, I don't see too many fanfics in languages other than English. It's nice that so many people outside of English-speaking countries know enough English that we can talk to each other and share our stories, but I wouldn't mind people posting their stories in their own languages either. Not that I'd be able to read them that way LOL, but other people would.
I do know of a Portuguese fanfic site that has girls who actually translate fanfics written in other languages into Portuguese so there will be more stories to read there. That sounds like a LOT of work to me, but I think it's cool.
usako:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 13, 2013, 03:18:31 PM ---Ohh, okay. Yeah, I don't see too many fanfics in languages other than English. It's nice that so many people outside of English-speaking countries know enough English that we can talk to each other and share our stories, but I wouldn't mind people posting their stories in their own languages either. Not that I'd be able to read them that way LOL, but other people would.
I do know of a Portuguese fanfic site that has girls who actually translate fanfics written in other languages into Portuguese so there will be more stories to read there. That sounds like a LOT of work to me, but I think it's cool.
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You know, I've thought it about, translate some stories in Italian but I know it's a hard work. It's one thing translating your own story because I know what I wanted to say and I don't have problem adding a little scenes more. But if I had to translate someone's else work, I have to stick with their work and that would be really hard.
I've to thank my love for reading if I know English this well. Thus I love English so it has never been a problem reading something that wasn't in Italian.
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