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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)

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julilly:

--- Quote from: mare on July 15, 2013, 03:34:27 PM ---Well in that case you could have just clicked the 'next' button! I did write all the songs in my musical chapter and still no one sang anyone awake! LOL

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Musical is fine! I loved that story. Musical is it's own genre, it's supposed to have people breaking into song. Reality is though, in most situations it's rare for someone to suddenly start singing a boyband ballad to another person. I have difficulty believing that any of the Boys would choose to randomly sing one of their own songs over using their words. The exception being Nick trying to pick up in a bar... because we've seen that he previously used random singing as a tactic...

mare:
^ I actually can see Brian bursting into a BSB song for no reason at all too. LOL

usako:

--- Quote from: mare on July 15, 2013, 03:38:16 PM ---^ I actually can see Brian bursting into a BSB song for no reason at all too. LOL
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Not only a BSB song. Any song. LOL
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mare:
okay time to answer some questions now LOL

What is it about a particular scene or story that makes it your favorite? Is it the subject matter itself of the accomplishment you feel while writing it? Can you name some examples?

I think for me it's a mixture of both, but most of the time it's just the overall good feeling I have when I am able to accomplish what I was hoping for while writing. It's easier for me to talk about stories as a whole instead of separate scenes.

Mel's Tree and Season's of Change are great examples for me because each chapter heading or part has a small segment at the beginning. For Mel's I wanted it all to come together by the end so you could tell it was actually Nick speaking. When I accomplished that I felt really good. Same with Season's. This one was a little different because it wasn't told from everyone's POV like Mels was so instead of breaking the story into parts, I used Nick's final commencement speech as the lines at the beginning of each chapter. I felt like both came full circle and was really proud of the final result. The prologue to Scenes from my Life was something else I felt incredibly proud of because it was the short story that is supposed to start Nick on his career as an author. No one was supposed to know that though until the very end and never mind because I realize I'm talking about the OF and not the fanfic! But same idea. I do have that story posted on the AC site called One Lone Pony Standing in the Snow. I wanted people to think it was Nick but it was actually about his father. i was just proud of the fact that I wrote a story as someone else writing a story about someone else! LMAO

Protect and Serve and it's sequel I loved the characters so much that I felt a connection to them. In that way, when it was all done I felt a sense of pride and a little melancholy.

If I feel like I was able to take my readers full circle, then I feel good and I think most of them have done that.

mare:
At what point do you feel it's okay to give "spoilers" to your stories or talk about specific things that have happened in them in your answers to these questions, without worrying that you're ruining things for potential readers?

It really depends for me. I don't like to give away too much either because so many of my stories revolve around plot twists etc... I think after a few years it's okay and like you said about the choppage thing, Julie! For the more popular stories, it's kind of hard to keep things a secret. I'm pretty sure everyone knows the word MINE is carved into Nick's skin but that was never the reveal, the big reveal was who did it and when talking about the MINE still, not many people reveal who it actually was.

All my old old stuff, I don't really mind talking about it and letting people know the end result like what I just said about my Mel's stories. Now it's fair game but maybe 7 years ago not so much!

it's weird because for stories like Protect and Serve, Thirteenth Step, Shadow Woods, I will occasionally get new readers so I tend to not say too much about them. Same with the most recent ones What Lurks and Whatever the Night although I'm pretty sure the big reveal was revealed a few times for the last one. I noticed though, no matter how much we might talk about things, people are always still surprised when it actually happens which is odd to me! I want to say, wait weren't you actually involved in the discussion where I mentioned that was going to happen on the AC board? LOL

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