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Questions to ponder part 11
Carter:
I am so ocd with my notebook that every story has its own divider lol and has character profiles..its sad really lol
RokofAges75:
What has been your best idea, but poorest execution? Meaning, the idea itself was good, but it could have been written so much better.
FrickingKaos:
In A World Like This. I wish I had planned that better. I was thinking about a rewrite but I wasnt sure if anyone would be interested in reading it. IIt was gonna be an old school type bus c crash story.
Also When I Grow Up, I thought I could have done so much better in writing that. I hate doing rewrites but I would like to fix that story up eventually, not rewrite all of my stories ive written, but fix the ones that failed.
mare:
^ I think the only bad thing about a rewrite is the expectation of people being interested enough to go back to read it. As long as you're doing it for your own satisfacton, then rewriting I think is almsr a great form of therapy. I know I wouldn't reread anything revised, personally. Once & done for me lol
The reason I said all that was because I have thought about a redo of Mizpah, which is my answer to Julie's question. I feel like I could execute the whole plot much better now then back then, but I decided to leave it be because for better or worse, it brought me into the world of fan fiction. I loved the whole idea behind the meaning of Mizpah and tying it into the bible but I could have done it better.
Now Shadow Woods I did a complete redo since I went OF with it but even changed the main twist and reason for being in the woods as well as introducing Kevin's girlfriend as a lead character. Sorry Howie lol
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 24, 2014, 01:18:21 AM ---What has been your best idea, but poorest execution? Meaning, the idea itself was good, but it could have been written so much better.
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Born to Be. It was one of my more creative ideas, take 1999 Nick and throw him into another universe where he'd been dead for years. But I didn't have any sense of where I was going with it. Not even the journey LOL. It was me winging it which meant bad writing.
I don't really do so much outlines as background info (if there's original characters or it's AU), the beginning, the end, and events I know need to happen during the journey of the story. Born To Be definitely needs an outline and it didn't get one. Hence the fail. I love the idea enough to have stopped when I realized this and rewrite cause I wasn't far into it, but I haven't done it yet LOL.
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