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Questions to ponder part 11
jess20:
Cancer stories are so painful for me to read and write. There's just something about cancer that gets to me. I always stay away from cancer stories whether it be in books, fanfiction, TV or movies. You'd have to be pretty gutsy to write cancer, so to be really bogan 'Onya Julie!'
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 16, 2014, 05:46:54 PM ---Follow-up to Tracy's question:
What has been your hardest story to write, what has been your easiest, and why?
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My hardest? Oddly enough Walked Out Of My Dreams gave me some serious hell. It was my first attempt at a "Brian" story and while it turned into more a Brian/Nick novella, I think it shows towards the end I was having a bit of a rough time. I don't channel Brian nearly as well as I can channel the other four. I don't know why really, but its rough getting into his head sometimes.
What's funny about that though is my easiest story was Remember Me This Way. That story flowed so well it was ridiculous. It took only a lil over a year to write and part of that was because of work and school and a bunch of other stuff getting in the way lol. But the story was supposed to be "written" by Brian, but it was my easiest story to write out of all of them. So go figure. I think part of it was because in some ways it was well in my comfort zone. As someone who's studied psychology for years I've done research into alzheimer's/early onset alzheimer's and I knew where to look, did even more research and so it it felt natural to slip into Nick's head (who I always have an easy time with) and give him that disorder. I love characterizati on and I feel that in the heart of that fic it's really characters and their angst carrying it along.
Rose:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on February 16, 2014, 03:25:45 AM ---I thought of a really interesting question. What genre do you feel as a writer is the most challenging to write, and what genre is the easiest?
You can speak for your own writing experiences or just your opiniona, I am really curious.
For me I think the most challenging is sci fi and romance. With sci fi you need to come up with your own universe and sometimes own laws, or even a society....it takes a lot of creativity.
Romance has been done so many times that it is hard to find a new way to do it and not have it be similar to another idea, you need it to catch people's attention. Romance requires a lot of creativity.
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In my personal experience, I'd probably say suspense. While I haven't posted one, I have had ideas but even getting one going is horribly hard LOL. You have to have every little piece thought out so you can drop the tiniest of clues along that no one truly picks up on and the villain needs to be believable. I don't know how Mare does it so often. I end up scrapping my ideas or nudge them aside cause it's so far out of my comfort zone.
Easiest? Probably horror and sci-fi. I love my horror. I love torture LOL. I sound psychotic saying it but I just have all sorts of ideas of cruel new ways to kill, maim or torture the Boys and one of my goals is to eventually write a good ole' horror story rather than just a oneshot because I think it'd just be fun.
As for sci-fi, there's a lot of freedom that comes with it. Because you create your own worlds, your own future (if that applies), creatures, all sorts of things. You get to set up your own rules and as long as you have them in your outline so you don't break them, it's fun starting your new reality from scratch. It takes a lot of details and attention but I really enjoy it. It can be tiring though which I think is why I end up taking "breaks" from it and dabble into other genres.
Here's a good question. What are your strengths as a writer? Weaknesses?
What would you say are the strengths of other writers?
mare:
I think the hardest story for me to write was "It Stays With You" because it was so disturbing to me. I'm not big on the whole torture thing. Watching it or reading it makes me squirm so I knew it was going to be really hard for me to write about Brian having to torture Nick in this one. Plus writing this from Brian's POV was an added challenge as well. I also struggled through "Whatever The Night May Bring" because of the whole sci fi element of it.
The easiest I believe was "Hope is the Last Thing Ever Lost" I'm not exactly sure why but I didn't struggle with this one at all. The words just came almost effortlessly. Maybe because I had taken a nice long break in between stories so it felt refreshing to write. A close second would have to be "Why I'd Do it all Again" That one was a piece of cake for me because I had always wanted to create some of those scenarios and couldn't wait to do it. LOL
mare:
More good questions that I have to ponder, Rose lol
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