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Author Topic: Getting to know you through your words!  (Read 8791 times)

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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2013, 07:40:13 PM »

As it turns out, this is really challenging to complete when you only have 9 stories to choose from. :)

1) Best beginning:
Satin and Silk (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10085&chapter=1)

2) Funniest chapter:
Hawk and a Handsaw - Chapter 12 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&textsize=0&chapter=12)

3) Saddest chapter:
Hawk and a Handsaw - Chapter 24 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&textsize=0&chapter=24)

4) Meanest cliff hanger:
History Repeating - Chapter 6 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10486&textsize=0&chapter=6)

5) Scariest chapter:
History Repeating - Chapter 1 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10486&chapter=1)

6) Goriest chapter: - this is a reach!
Hawk and a Handsaw - Chapter 16 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&textsize=0&chapter=16)

7) Romantic chapter:
30 Days - Chapter 31 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=11011&chapter=31)

8) Death chapter:
Hawk and a Handsaw - Chapter 5 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&textsize=0&chapter=5)

9) Loaded with action chapter:
Stockholm Syndrome - Chapter 12 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10078&textsize=0&chapter=12)

10) The chapter no one saw coming:
History Repeating - Chapter 6 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10486&textsize=0&chapter=6)

11) Brotherly bonding chapter:
Hawk and a Handsaw - Epilogue (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&chapter=25)

12) Sinister chapter: N/A

13) Bromantic moments chapter:
Hawk and a Handsaw - Chapter 2 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10084&chapter=2)

14) The big reveal chapter:
As You Are - Chapter 10 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10086&textsize=0&chapter=10)

15) Best ending:
All That Glitters - Chapter 63 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10018&textsize=0&chapter=63)

16) Self Indulgent chapter: I'll save this slot for the future when I kill off Kevin someday....

17) Goofiest chapter: See: Funniest chapter

18) Worst thing you ever wrote (lol): Is not on AC...

19) Favorite chapter:
My Mind's Eye - Chapter 1 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8872&chapter=1)

20) Your best short story:
Good Deeds Written on Snow (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10255&chapter=1)

21) Most unique chapter:
As You Are - Part I (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10086&chapter=1)

22) Love blossoms:
All That Glitters - Chapter 60 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10018&textsize=0&chapter=60)

23) Best sex scene: lol!
30 Days - Chapter 18 (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=11011&textsize=0&chapter=18)
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2013, 07:46:36 PM »

It isn't any easier when you have 70+ stories either LOL
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2013, 08:13:00 PM »

16) Self Indulgent chapter: I'll save this slot for the future when I kill off Kevin someday....

LMAO!
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2013, 09:23:51 PM »

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16) Self Indulgent chapter: I'll save this slot for the future when I kill off Kevin someday....

LMFAO I love that answer.
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2013, 06:32:34 AM »

Going along with the question thread, I thought it would be fun to ask and answer some questions about the chapters we chose for this.  I'm going to put them in here, but if you think they belong better in the question thread, Mare or Julilly, feel free to move them there.

Here are a couple of questions to get us started; feel free to come up with more for the other categories!

How did you decide on your favorite chapter?  Did you know what your favorite was ahead of time, or did you have to really think about it or narrow it down?

What makes your best beginning a great start to a story?
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2013, 08:37:33 AM »

It was really hard to choose a favorite beginning, because Finding Carter's beginning prologue was great at setting.up the main character ans the premise of the story as well.

Figured You Out I chose because it just gave enough.detail that made people curious to read more, while setting up the plot.
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2013, 08:41:18 AM »

I think those questions are fine in here but they would also probably be great ones to ask in the other thread for people who may not even bother looking in this thread. Heck, it might even make them come in here and fill this survey out!
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2013, 08:46:39 AM »

I will reword them slightly and post them in the other thread.
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2013, 09:10:32 AM »

How did you decide on your favorite chapter?  Did you know what your favorite was ahead of time, or did you have to really think about it or narrow it down?

It was really hard to actually pick one. I have over 70 stories on the AC site so trying to fill this survey out was kind of tough. I'm sure it's just as hard for people who don't have many stories to pick from either. I really have a lot of favorite chapters and I kind of wish that maybe I went with a different one to maybe show more depth or range, but the reason I picked the sandwich one was because even though I have the WORST memory on the planet, I vividly remember this chapter! "The eyes rolls have it," which is another one from Why I'd Do it all Again came in a close second! I could probably list about ten others from various stories. Does that make me sound like a total pompous ass? LOL

What makes your best beginning a great start to a story?
I picked two different stories for this one. The 5 BSB one because it really sets up the tone of the entire thing. It starts out sounding really angsty and serious before the narrator starts talking and then you get to see what it's really all about. I also wanted to pick something more serious and I feel like the prologue to The Thirteenth Step is mysterious enough that you want to click the next chapter to see who is talking.

We should also ask about the ending chapter! LOL
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2013, 09:25:13 AM »

[I could probably list about ten others from various stories. Does that make me sound like a total pompous ass? LOL

Eh, I was the same way LOL.  I found the favorite chapter to be the hardest category; I saved it for last and ended up just going with the BMS chapter I used for the question about which one represents my writing best.  It is one of my favorite chapters, but I don't know that it's really the favorite favorite.  I'd already used some of my other contenders in other categories and wanted to put something unique for each one, though.  I also thought I should do a serious chapter, to represent my writing better, but in all honesty, my favorite things I have written are the funny parts, mainly for 00Carter and the two death round robins.  Those are the ones I find myself going back to read, more than the serious stuff.  But that BMS chapter definitely stood out in my mind as one of the more memorable ones.  Other serious options were the death scene in Curtain Call and the first zombie chapter in Song for the Undead, but I used those two parts in other categories.

As far as my best beginning, that one was a lot easier.  I picked the beginning of Secrets of the Heart because I have always loved that first chapter.  It sets the status quo, but unlike a lot of my stories, it gets to the good stuff right away!  There's no build up to any drama; you find out right away that Brian is dying, so the stakes are set high from the get-go.  Since the story's an AU, I knew I had to suck people in right away if I wanted them to give it a chance.

The ending question was also pretty easy.  I went with By My Side because it just meant the most to me.  Finishing that story was a HUGE deal because it was so long and had taken me so many years to write, and I wanted to end it in a big way... you know, by killing off both my main characters LOL.  It's a little cheesy, but I loved the idea then, and I still love it now.  It's very fitting of that story and wraps things up with a nice big bow on top of a tombstone (or a bench... where their bodies could rest, side by side, or something like that LOL).  A perfect bittersweet ending for a bittersweet story.

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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2013, 09:27:54 AM »

You chop off his leg, make him almost burn to death in a car accident and then KILL him? lmao That's just wrong!!
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2013, 09:30:37 AM »

You chop off his leg, make him almost burn to death in a car accident and then KILL him? lmao That's just wrong!!

Old age.  It's a "flash forward fifty years" kind of epilogue that takes place at Claire's funeral.  It talks about what a nice long life they had together, and then Nick dies at the end within days of Claire, as old married couples sometimes do.  So it's sad, but sweet.  I'm not THAT mean.  :angel:
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2013, 09:47:45 AM »

Aww that is sweet! LOL Good to know!
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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2013, 09:57:40 AM »

Aww that is sweet! LOL Good to know!

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Re: Getting to know you through your words!
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2013, 10:19:13 AM »

Picking an ending was pretty hard for me because those chapters are usually the ones I'm most proud of. I honestly think I have loved every single ending I've ever written. (she says pompously lol) I went with the two I did though for various reasons.

It Stays because it really does a good job of summing up Brian's final thoughts of what happened while letting us know there was no really happy ending. The guy wasn't caught and neither his life or Nick's life will ever be the same. That was so important to me but I also know it bothered a lot of people who really wanted a happy ending with the bad guy going to jail or dying.

Season's of Change because it really lets everyone see that in the end that messed up kid in Mels Tree, goes on to make a great life for himself by becoming a famous author. It's only implied but having him give the commencement speech just felt really appropriate.

I wanted to list the ending of Scars Run Deep and Wide but I know that three people are currently reading it, so for that reason, I didn't want to give it away! I am really in love with this ending though! LOL
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