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Questions to ponder part 11
usako:
It depends.
If it's linked to a certain situation, video or picture, I usually use a specific time or period. Otherwise, I tend to be vague and not to give a date.
RokofAges75:
Have you ever recycled one of your own storylines? As in, written a story with a plot that was essentially the same or similar to another one of your stories?
Alexsgirl_ritz:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on December 27, 2013, 10:53:19 PM ---What's your current status as far as fanfic goes? Are you reading anything? Writing anything? Thinking about writing anything? Just post an update!
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I can't remember the last time I checked the most recent page. Mare's Hope was the last fan fic I read. I have been transferred to the head office which is a little strict with internet. I have no internet connection even during lunch breaks. I can't check AC during lunch breaks like I used to. When I come home, with a toddler running around and a little business that needs attention, I don't have time to read. I received a book last Christmas but I can't get past chapter 1.
The good news is, I just finished a chapter for The Other Side of NC. But I won't be posting anything until I finished at least 3 chapters, or until I can convince myself that I could write weekly again. It really sucks when I want to write but I just can't. :(
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 16, 2014, 09:20:43 PM ---Have you ever recycled one of your own storylines? As in, written a story with a plot that was essentially the same or similar to another one of your stories?
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Even though I know it's not true, I feel like that's all I ever do. Not sure why but every single time I am writing a story I feel like I'm just copying myself from an earlier novel and I'm sure at points I have done that, even stolen my own lines. LOL
I know one thing I always tend to do even when I don't want to, is make Nick the focal point of every story. Even the group ones usually end up more focused on him than the rest. It just kind of happens that way so I let it. I think I just find it easier because I love his interactions with the other guys more than all the other pairings so making him my center really helps when it comes to the flow of the actual story. It's probably unusual since he's not my favorite member of the group although a very close second, but I've never written about him because he's 'totes hot! or I want to have ten thousand of his babies, or I have a ton of posters of him on my walls'
Just something I kind of noticed while writing on "Hope" this summer that everyone probably noticed a lot sooner than I did. lmao
RokofAges75:
I have noticed that you tend to focus most on Nick even in your group stories, but there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I bet the majority of readers prefer it that way. We all probably have that one guy that we tend to center our stories on, and not necessarily because he's our favorite. Nick's not my favorite either, but I have written more stories centered on him in the last decade than I have any of the other guys. He's just fun to write about and makes for an interesting character.
As far as recycling storylines goes, I do it too. I don't set out to, but I've noticed it's become sort of a pattern with the novels I've started writing in the past few years. Almost all of them could be seen as recycled versions of my older stories if you look at just the basic premise. Maybe that is just what happens when you run out of ideas; you start recycling the old ones LOL. The reason it doesn't bother me is that I feel like I am improving upon my old writing that way, by taking an old premise and putting a new spin on it, writing it better than I did the first (or second, in some cases LOL) time around. It's never the same story twice, even if the storylines are similar.
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