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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 10, 2021, 07:29:51 PM ---I was going to put this in the nostalgia thread, but couldn't find it (I'm guessing you hid it somewhere, Mare.). Anyway, I stumbled on that old thread where Tanja joined the board and was asking for help with her pilfered HSM story and noticed that none of us said "Busted" after she got called out, and I think we missed a perfect opportunity there. Anyway, back to writing discussions!
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Oh noes, where did the nostalgia thread go?? I can't find it either. Did it get accidentally deleted?
LOL We totally missed that opportunity. I need to look up that thread; I forgot about us messing with Tanja here LOL.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 10, 2021, 08:01:14 PM ---The internet says this word is "dilogy"! And apparently that LOTR is also one novel published in varying amounts of several parts (a "tiptych" wrould be a better way to describe the usual split of it: one novel in three parts). You learn something new every day!
I think I would also. That stuff about The Ruins and Walking Dead is crazy! I wonder what you consider the canon continuity at that point. But I think they have the right idea; gotta make it interesting.
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Dilogy? LOL I guess that makes sense, but it sounds dumb.
That's a good point about canon. I don't know if people write fanfic for The Ruins (I guess it probably exists; just like porn, there's fanfic for everything), but I'm sure they do for The Walking Dead. I guess it would be important to specify if it's the novel/comic universe or the TV universe.
Edit: Out of curiosity, I looked, and there are 4 fanfics for The Ruins on AO3. There are two separate tags, one for the novel and one for the movie. https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Ruins%20(2008)/works
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 10, 2021, 07:29:51 PM ---I was going to put this in the nostalgia thread, but couldn't find it (I'm guessing you hid it somewhere, Mare.). Anyway, I stumbled on that old thread where Tanja joined the board and was asking for help with her pilfered HSM story and noticed that none of us said "Busted" after she got called out, and I think we missed a perfect opportunity there. Anyway, back to writing discussions!
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LMAO I found that thread: http://absolutechaos.net/fictalk/index.php/topic,1684.0.html
I'm cracking up at some of the stuff we said to her.
--- Quote from: mare on February 16, 2009, 06:13:52 PM ---It's an interesting idea to make him schizophrenic. How much research did you do on the topic? I'd love links because i'm thinking of maybe trying out a story using mental health issues and i'd love to get some links besides the ones I already have.
Great start! Can't wait to see what else you come up with!
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--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 16, 2009, 06:43:33 PM ---The goal is just to come up with your own idea and write it yourself; as long as you do that, you'll get encouragement here.
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--- Quote from: mare on February 16, 2009, 09:08:47 PM ---^ Aww, well that's one thing about our site that might set us apart from the rest. We don't miss much here. We're pretty observant and on top of things.
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--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 16, 2009, 10:00:42 PM ---This is also true. The nice thing about AC is that there are a lot of talented writers here who take their craft seriously. They are more critical than the teenybopper crowd who will read anything as long as Nick's in it (or whoever), and if you ask for honest feedback or constructive criticism, they will give it to you, rather than just going "Great job, more soon!!!"
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nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 10, 2021, 07:58:27 PM ---As for two-parter movies for the last book in a series, I think it depends on the book. I liked it for Harry Potter because it allowed them to do my favorite HP book justice. The book is still better, but most of the things I loved about it are in those movies. But I don't think it was necessary with Twilight: Breaking Dawn because nothing really happens in the second half of that book. It's a build-up to absolutely nothing. They could have kept that as one movie.
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That's true, it probably depends on what's happening in the book! And I know that the HP books got longer as time went on, so there was really more to pack in with a limited amount of time.
Twilight definitely didn't need to be five movies. I'm on the fence about whether Hunger Games needed to be four movies.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 10, 2021, 08:04:58 PM ---I am not usually good at writing during small windows of time. I am such a slow writer that unless I have at least 2-3 hours, it feels pointless to even try. I do best when I know I have a whole day or night ahead of me with nothing else I absolutely have to do.
That said, if I'm truly inspired to the point that I'm already writing in my head anyway, I will hop on the computer and jot down what I can in whatever time I have. That is how I was able to type one-handed while drying my hair in the mornings before school when I was on the last leg of AHTIM. But that would never have happened if I wasn't already in that head space.
Knowing I have a three-day weekend coming up, I am using my evenings this week to think and research and jot down ideas in hopes I will be in the right head space to write by Friday night or Saturday morning.
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I had to listen to a video of me talking, so now I'm just in cringe mode, haha.
I was the most unproductive person during that time when I probably should have just tried to write instead. I guess it depends on the time limit. If it's a set start time, I don't want to get sucked into writing, but if it's a more flexible start time, I might.
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