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FrickingKaos:
I don’t unless it’s a parody of a movie that is what I am writing at the time. Such as the Wizard of Oz parody or the 13 Going on 30 ones I did years ago. However, the last week or so I was watching Titanic every night so I think that may have been inspiring a lot of things in If I Knew Then but it’s not obvious because my readers have not picked up on any references.
When I was writing Finding Carter I watched a lot of Disney films so there are numerous references to Disney movies as its a theme throughout the story (Plus Finding Carter is literally a play off Finding Nemo), not to mention each chapter has a Disney quote that fits the theme of each chapter.
For the most part I try to not watch things that are similar to my writing because I’m afraid that it will come out in my writing but I put TV shows or movies on as background noise while I write. For the last month I was watching Big Bang Theory and it had no influence on If I Knew Then, so that was a success.
Weird strokes of inspiration, i get the most random ideas from songs. Usually I come up with story titles and then a story idea forms from that, most of the time from lyrics that I can’t get out of my head. A lot of my one shots have happened this way.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 28, 2021, 08:06:48 PM ---Do you guys tend to read or watch things that are similar to what you're writing (in terms of genre or subject matter) to inspire you, or do you stay away from things that seem similar to avoid inadvertently copying ideas?
What has been your strangest or most unexpected source of inspiration?
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nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on January 30, 2021, 02:02:46 AM ---I don’t unless it’s a parody of a movie that is what I am writing at the time. Such as the Wizard of Oz parody or the 13 Going on 30 ones I did years ago. However, the last week or so I was watching Titanic every night so I think that may have been inspiring a lot of things in If I Knew Then but it’s not obvious because my readers have not picked up on any references.
When I was writing Finding Carter I watched a lot of Disney films so there are numerous references to Disney movies as its a theme throughout the story (Plus Finding Carter is literally a play off Finding Nemo), not to mention each chapter has a Disney quote that fits the theme of each chapter.
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What is it you enjoy about writing parodies?
Aw, Disney, cute! I love that you included quotes that went with it. I like when there's an opportunity to do things like that. Snippets of song lyrics was one I always liked doing when it fit.
nicksgal:
Today's questions are all about characters!
How do you come up with character names for your stories? (Other than the obvious, "Well, Nick is "Nick.")
What are the essential characteristic s of a hero you can root for? Are there certain aspects of the Boys you play up if they're in the hero role?
What do you do to get inside your characters' heads?
If you could be a character from one of your stories, who would it be and why?
What's the trickiest thing about writing characters of the opposite gender?
Does one of your characters hold a special place in your heart? If so, why?
Now describe that character in three words.
Which of your characters do you relate to the most?
Do you often put aspects of yourself into your characters?
And just for fun:
Go back to that character you said holds a special place in your heart and think about the other characters in their story. They can only use each character once, so which character from their story would they pick to:
a. be trapped in the wilderness with? (can be frigid or tropical wilderness) Why?
b. spend the night in a haunted house with? Why?
c. have for a boss? Why?
d. pull off a heist with? Why?
e. be on the Amazing Race with? Why?
And because these are fun anyway, just answer for yourself with the Boys. You can only use each one once. :D
Which Boy would you pick to:
a. be trapped in the wilderness with? (can be frigid or tropical wilderness) Why?
b. spend the night in a haunted house with? Why?
c. have for a boss? Why?
d. pull off a heist with? Why?
e. be on the Amazing Race with? Why?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on January 30, 2021, 01:56:27 AM --- My favorite Goosebumps book is One Day At HorrorLand as well, especially the Doom Slide. I also loved the one that was a choose your own adventure. Escape From the Carnival of Horrors.
My favorite Boxcar Children book is a toss up between Mystery Cruise and Surprise Island.
I never read The Babysitter’s Club but I read the spin off of that where it was the little sisters of the Baby Sitters Club. I also read Fear Street, one of my favorites of that series being this story where the main character’s family is sold to a town that is run by dogs.
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I loved the BSC Little Sister (Karen) books too! And Fear Street! I don't think I ever read that Fear Street book though. My favorite was The Fear Street Saga, the trilogy about the history of the Fear (Fier) family and how Fear Street came to be cursed. Apparently they made a trilogy of Fear Street movies for Netflix that come out this year!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on January 30, 2021, 02:02:46 AM ---I don’t unless it’s a parody of a movie that is what I am writing at the time. Such as the Wizard of Oz parody or the 13 Going on 30 ones I did years ago. However, the last week or so I was watching Titanic every night so I think that may have been inspiring a lot of things in If I Knew Then but it’s not obvious because my readers have not picked up on any references.
When I was writing Finding Carter I watched a lot of Disney films so there are numerous references to Disney movies as its a theme throughout the story (Plus Finding Carter is literally a play off Finding Nemo), not to mention each chapter has a Disney quote that fits the theme of each chapter.
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Parodies are so much fun to write! I do the same thing with watching whatever I'm parodying over and over again. Last year it was the beginning of Return of the Jedi and the pilot of The Mandalorian as I was writing my third pandaskunk story. The worst was when I was spoofing Independence Day in the second pandaskunk story - my copy of Independence Day is still on VHS, so I had to plug in my old VCR and freaking rewind that tape over and over again to catch the exact lines of dialogue and whatnot. I finally found a copy of the screenplay online, and that made it easier LOL.
Do you find that having parodied something makes you see the original a little differently?
It's fun to make references to another fandom or source in stories. I wrote a lot of Beatles references into Secrets of the Heart because the character Jori was based on my sister, who loves the Beatles. I named all the minor characters after names in Beatles songs, and I even had chapter titles planned that were all Beatles lyrics, but I ended up not using those. I don't even really like the Beatles, but I know more about them than I ever cared to know thanks to my sister LOL.
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