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[mare]

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?

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]

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

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]

LMAO I can honestly say I have never read a story like that!

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.

[RokofAges75]

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?

I cannot think of a specific scene right now, so my short answer is yes, this happens to me all the time.  Usually I'm able to work through it and it turns out okay, though.  I'm trying to think of a scene I had to scrap because it wouldn't turn out the way I wanted it to...

[mare]

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?

WOW that's hardcore right there! I would have loved it if a policeman saw you and asked you what you were doing. "Well Officer...I'm practicing just in case a zombie attack were to happen and I had to escape out of my moon roof!"  LMAO

[RokofAges75]

WOW that's hardcore right there! I would have loved it if a policeman saw you and asked you what you were doing. "Well Officer...I'm practicing just in case a zombie attack were to happen and I had to escape out of my moon roof!"  LMAO

LOL I know, right!  That's why I made sure I did it late at night in the middle of nowhere, so no one would see me and be like, WTF?

[mare]

I don't think I've ever done anything that crazy actually. I guess the most I do is say my dialogue out loud before I type it up so I'm sure my neighbors either think I have multiple personality disorder or think I'm talking on the phone to people who constantly get themselves into hot water!

Who is this Nick and why is he always getting kidnapped? LOL

[RokofAges75]

^ LOL!  Poor Nick.  I will say dialogue out loud sometimes too, not all the time, but usually just when I'm trying to figure out if it sounds right or not.

If the car thing was my craziest, probably the weirdest thing I've done is when I was writing Broken, I would walk around my dorm room trying to imagine what it would be like to walk with a prosthetic leg so I could describe it from Nick's perspective. LOL  Nowadays I could just watch a video, but this was back before YouTube was a thing.

[Rose]

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?

Dude I didn't know you did that. That's hilarious and awesome!

Craziest thing I've done for a story. Hmm... There is a mental hospital that wasn't far from where I knew the community college to be. I had to go in and volunteer anyway as part of an assignment. So I did ask  if I could see or work around the dementia patients because I was in the early stages of writing Remember Me This Way. (I'd told them it was because I was also doing a paper on it, which was true too LOL). I wanted to witness it for myself. One ended up being an alzheimer's patient which worked out perfectly. So I did see some of it first hand so I could apply some of those behaviors later.

I don't think I would've done it had it not been an assignment but I did use it to my advantage.

[Rose]

I talk out my dialogue all the time to make sure it sounds right. My family had long ago become used to it back when I was a teenager LOL.

[RokofAges75]

Dude I didn't know you did that. That's hilarious and awesome!

Craziest thing I've done for a story. Hmm... There is a mental hospital that wasn't far from where I knew the community college to be. I had to go in and volunteer anyway as part of an assignment. So I did ask  if I could see or work around the dementia patients because I was in the early stages of writing Remember Me This Way. (I'd told them it was because I was also doing a paper on it, which was true too LOL). I wanted to witness it for myself. One ended up being an alzheimer's patient which worked out perfectly. So I did see some of it first hand so I could apply some of those behaviors later.

I don't think I would've done it had it not been an assignment but I did use it to my advantage.

Hey, why not?  Field research!