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Questions to ponder part 11
mare:
--- Quote from: Carter on July 29, 2014, 04:39:19 PM ---Here is another question...and i am only asking cause i am sittig here thinking about it. Have you ever found a scene that is just hard to write? Like no matter how much you try it just doesnt seem right?
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My God, yes! Last summer when I was writing Hope.
There were a lot of scenes in the crashed van. One scene I had a hell of a time writing was when the wolves finally showed up and jumped on top of it. My main problem was I kept visualizing this stupid van different ways and in my head it was a lot bigger than it actually was meant to be. Like almost tour bus big! I had it sitting on its side and because of that, I had a real problem with consistency when it came to those damn wolves jumping up on the hood of the van since they would have really needed suction cups on their feet to do that! Ugh that damn van gave me nightmares! LOL
I tried my hardest to change my mind but since I started writing that story, that scene had always been stuck in my head and you know how it goes, when you have something stuck in your head! I was just thinking "Welp, maybe they won't notice!" LOL
RokofAges75:
My top three favorite old-school plots were the kidnapping stories, the crash stories (bus, car, plane - loved them all!), and the Brian heart problem stories. I read so many of those!
I agree, Mare, it's definitely harder to come up with situations in which you can get the Boys all together without any of the family members around. I love that they rented that house in London to write for IAWLT because it shows that the scenario of having them go somewhere all together to get away or get some work done is still realistic.
But remember the teenybopper stories that had them all living in the same house? Usually right next door to the house that Mary Sue and her four BFFs lived in? And across the street from NSYNC's house? LOL
mare:
LMAO I can honestly say I have never read a story like that!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 29, 2014, 05:06:52 PM ---My God, yes! Last summer when I was writing Hope.
There were a lot of scenes in the crashed van. One scene I had a hell of a time writing was when the wolves finally showed up and jumped on top of it. My main problem was I kept visualizing this stupid van different ways and in my head it was a lot bigger than it actually was meant to be. Like almost tour bus big! I had it sitting on its side and because of that, I had a real problem with consistency when it came to those damn wolves jumping up on the hood of the van since they would have really needed suction cups on their feet to do that! Ugh that damn van gave me nightmares! LOL
I tried my hardest to change my mind but since I started writing that story, that scene had always been stuck in my head and you know how it goes, when you have something stuck in your head! I was just thinking "Welp, maybe they won't notice!" LOL
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I didn't notice! LOL
I am anal about that kind of stuff too, trying to be exciting but also realistic. I remember when I was writing one of the early chapters of Song for the Undead, I had two characters trapped in a car, surrounded by zombies, and I was going to have them crawl out of the moonroof. I started to write it, and then I was like, I wonder if they would really be able to get through the moonroof quickly enough to escape the zombies? So I drove out into the country late at night, parked my car alongside a cornfield, and climbed out my moonroof just to make sure it could be done LOL.
What's the weirdest/craziest thing you've done for the sake of a story?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 29, 2014, 06:11:09 PM ---LMAO I can honestly say I have never read a story like that!
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I really did read at least one story that was just like that. There was a girlband, and they lived next to the Backstreet Boys, who all lived in the same house, and NSYNC lived by them too. They all went on tour together, and each girl had a love triangle with a Backstreet Boy and an NSYNC member. And I read the whole damn story. It was like a poorly-written boyband fanfic soap opera.
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