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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:10:26 PM ---Is any research uninteresting? I'd say maybe there's less interesting research, but I'm a research nerd. I can't think of anything I've ever researched where I thought "This is the worst use of my time. Why am I researching this?" Have you?
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Well... turns out I don't really enjoy researching things like milking cows and Amish culture. I thought I would get into that more, but... not so much. I am weird in that I love history, but don't love historical fiction. Writing about the Amish is almost like writing historical fiction, and I don't like it. I don't think it's a waste of time, just not as interesting as I thought it would be. That's all I can think of offhand though; I generally love looking up stuff too.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 09:19:31 PM ---Ooh yes... I saw Handicapped Badass and thought of Rose McGowan's character in "Planet Terror," where she loses her leg after a zombie bite and then gets a machine gun prosthesis LOL. But after reading the actual description, I guess that fits Broken Nick, even though his leg was not also a gun. And I agree; Inspirationall y Disadvantaged feels cheesier than I like to go.
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LMFAO!!! I'm just picturing Nick with a gun for a leg. He would get into so many unintended accidents because he would be too stoked to have a gun for a leg! You can be ba without having literal machinery attached to your body.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 09:19:31 PM ---Do it! Start a trend!
Hm... 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter is the only story listed as straight comedy on my site, and that's a story about someone dying... repeatedly... so it's definitely a black comedy. Rose listed it as a comedy/horror here on AC. I have several stories I consider comedies first and foremost, like my pandaskunk saga and the Beauty and the Beast parody I wrote for one of the challenges here, but those technically include other genres too. So I'm not sure... it depends what you consider a straight comedy.
Haha, I do! And yes... we need variety in this fandom!
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Me? A trendsetter in BSB fanfic fandom? Never thought that would happen. Perhaps it's time.
I guess "comedy with elements of x, y, z other genres" I would consider a straight comedy. Unless one of those other genres is drama and the story leans heavier into the drama than any of the elements. That fine line between dramedy and comedy, I guess.
I've always been here bringing variety. Why would I change now?
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 09:23:49 PM ---I typed a reply to this in my last post and must have accidentally deleted it because it wasn't in there anymore when it posted. Whoops.
I think it's more for me than for readers. Obviously I want people to like my stories or I wouldn't post them, but at the end of the day, I write for myself first and foremost. I'm always going to write what I want to write, and if there's someone else out there who wants to read it, awesome! But now I'm curious... For people who have read multiple stories of mine, do you get tired of reading hospital scenes, etc.? You can be honest if you do; I won't be offended. Like I said, I get tired of writing them sometimes! But I always end up going back to medical drama anyway and inevitably get stuck writing another damn hospital scene.
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Do you think you could write a full medical drama without a hospital scene? It seems kind of inevitable if you have medical drama as a main genre, but I'm much less well researched in it.
I can't think of the last time I read a medical drama that wasn't written by you, so at this point, maybe it's more of a "hospital scenes are a necessary part of a Julie medical drama" thing for me. Other people probably have better answers.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 09:34:30 PM ---Well... turns out I don't really enjoy researching things like milking cows and Amish culture. I thought I would get into that more, but... not so much. I am weird in that I love history, but don't love historical fiction. Writing about the Amish is almost like writing historical fiction, and I don't like it. I don't think it's a waste of time, just not as interesting as I thought it would be. That's all I can think of offhand though; I generally love looking up stuff too.
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Next time you have to research milking a cow, just go to a creamery instead. Learning about milking cows in the context of producing and eating cheese, then getting to eat tasty cheese, was awesome! Plus, I learned that the sports team of the local high school was the "Cheesemakers" and what's not to love about that? Nothing.
I think it depends on the historical fiction for me and whether those pieces of day to day life are the focus or just kind of there. Or maybe if it wasn't historical fiction when it was written, but now it kind of is. Those ones are fine. I'm looking at you Jane Austen and Victor Hugo.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:34:49 PM ---LMFAO!!! I'm just picturing Nick with a gun for a leg. He would get into so many unintended accidents because he would be too stoked to have a gun for a leg! You can be ba without having literal machinery attached to your body.
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If he ever loses a limb in 00Carter, you know Professor Pearl would make him a gun leg or arm! Or this could be a new entry in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter. Survives choppage... shoots self with gun leg.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:34:49 PM ---Me? A trendsetter in BSB fanfic fandom? Never thought that would happen. Perhaps it's time.
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It's time! Nick falls in love with a sea monster... go!
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:34:49 PM ---I guess "comedy with elements of x, y, z other genres" I would consider a straight comedy. Unless one of those other genres is drama and the story leans heavier into the drama than any of the elements. That fine line between dramedy and comedy, I guess.
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Yeah, mine are more comedy than dramedy, to me anyway. They're a lot different from my dramas that contain comic relief. I have a twisted sense of humor, so some of them still contain death and dismemberment, but played for laughs, not meant to be taken seriously. Nick in 1000 Ways is basically Kenny in South Park, and I think that same South Park-inspired sense of humor comes across in my other comedies as well.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:34:49 PM ---Do you think you could write a full medical drama without a hospital scene? It seems kind of inevitable if you have medical drama as a main genre, but I'm much less well researched in it.
I can't think of the last time I read a medical drama that wasn't written by you, so at this point, maybe it's more of a "hospital scenes are a necessary part of a Julie medical drama" thing for me. Other people probably have better answers.
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Probably not the kind I like to write. I guess if I spun herpes on the Wheel of Misfortune, that wouldn't require a hospitalizatio n... but knowing me, I would give him some kind of herpes complication that would land him in the hospital anyway because if it's not potentially life-threatening, is it even worth writing? LOL (Also, I just looked up the potential complications of genital herpes, which include bladder problems, rectal inflammation, spinal cord inflammation, meningitis, encephalitis, and blindness. Hm, maybe I will write a herpes story after all! Haha!)
I'm almost positive the only novel I've ever written that doesn't include a hospital scene is my unfinished Harry Potter crossover. Even the ones that aren't medical drama usually have a character wind up in the hospital at some point LOL.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 13, 2021, 09:39:26 PM ---Next time you have to research milking a cow, just go to a creamery instead. Learning about milking cows in the context of producing and eating cheese, then getting to eat tasty cheese, was awesome! Plus, I learned that the sports team of the local high school was the "Cheesemakers" and what's not to love about that? Nothing.
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Good idea! Also the Cheesemakers is definitely a more fun mascot name than the Packers. Sorry, not sorry, Rose.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 10:11:17 PM ---If he ever loses a limb in 00Carter, you know Professor Pearl would make him a gun leg or arm! Or this could be a new entry in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter. Survives choppage... shoots self with gun leg.
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Professor Pearl would! But 00Carter Nick is suave enough to figure it out. I need to stop filling in comments in the middle of your sentences, because I saw "survives" and thought "but Nick has to die, that's the point of the story." And then he tragically accidentally shoots himself. lmao!
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 10:11:17 PM ---It's time! Nick falls in love with a sea monster... go!
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How am I going to have time to write all of these things? The story I'm currently writing, Nick is Brian's guardian angel, Nick falls in love with a sea monster, death by snail?
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 10:11:17 PM ---Yeah, mine are more comedy than dramedy, to me anyway. They're a lot different from my dramas that contain comic relief. I have a twisted sense of humor, so some of them still contain death and dismemberment, but played for laughs, not meant to be taken seriously. Nick in 1000 Ways is basically Kenny in South Park, and I think that same South Park-inspired sense of humor comes across in my other comedies as well.
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Black comedy is still valid comedy! As long as it's mostly meant for laughs! Oh South Park... I gotta take you to Casa Bonita someday if it survives the pandemic.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 13, 2021, 10:11:17 PM ---Probably not the kind I like to write. I guess if I spun herpes on the Wheel of Misfortune, that wouldn't require a hospitalizatio n... but knowing me, I would give him some kind of herpes complication that would land him in the hospital anyway because if it's not potentially life-threatening, is it even worth writing? LOL (Also, I just looked up the potential complications of genital herpes, which include bladder problems, rectal inflammation, spinal cord inflammation, meningitis, encephalitis, and blindness. Hm, maybe I will write a herpes story after all! Haha!)
I'm almost positive the only novel I've ever written that doesn't include a hospital scene is my unfinished Harry Potter crossover. Even the ones that aren't medical drama usually have a character wind up in the hospital at some point LOL.
Good idea! Also the Cheesemakers is definitely a more fun mascot name than the Packers. Sorry, not sorry, Rose.
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Poor Nick, going blind from herpes. LMAO at "if it's not potentially life-threatening, then is it even worth writing?"
Maybe that's why you never finished it? It was a crossover and had no medical drama, let alone hospitals. Now try to write a HP crossover with a hospital scene.
You tell her! (I have nothing to contribute to this assumed Packers/Cubs rivalry.)
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