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nicksgal:
Found an interesting, but old, article that touches on why Nicks might be so picky: "How Do Some Authors 'Lose Control' of Their Characters?"
I read it and thought, well I suppose this all makes sense... but it's also more fun to pretend Nick is screaming at me when he's displeased. :D
Anybody else have thoughts?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:00:12 PM ---I call 2006 my year of trying to start a bunch of different things and none of those worked well. I think the times I've actually focused on something is when I committed to the one thing, no matter how long it took. Looking back, that's really what I did with PBox and said "everything else is on hold until this is done." I should have known better and just said, "Yo, just PBox," haha. It's part of why I've tried not to focus on anything else that's popped up unless it felt like it would be a quick, short, and finite thing, like the holiday story or death by snail. But hopefully I'll still feel inspired on the others after everything is said and done! I'm a little worried about the WADD, since there's probably three things I could work on after finishing PNecklace. We'll see how I'm feeling at that time.
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It's hard to set ideas to the side and hope you'll still be inspired when you have time for them. But it's also hard to finish stories when you try working on a million different things at once. Either way, it takes a certain level of discipline. I think writing the occasional short story while working on a novel is okay, though - sometimes it helps to take a break and write something different for a change.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:00:12 PM ---I think combining ideas is a great way to find inspiration for all of them, especially if there's not a strong novel-length idea for the plot of any of them yet. I thought Bethlehem was a beautiful combination of A-Rok bromance, survival, and Christmas in quarantine! I hope some of your other ideas can combine in such a serendipidous way as well.
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Thanks!
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:00:12 PM ---Aw, I know, but bus crashes are just so iconic. I would read 1,000 of them if they were still being written.
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I love bus crash stories too. Every BSB fanfic author should write at least one! Who here has and hasn't written a bus crash story?
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:00:12 PM ---Add it to your ideas folder! Maybe a google sheet would be best, then you could list the stories and years you wrote any of them.
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I do have a database of my stories on Google Sheets. Maybe I should add a column for sort of malady each one featured.
For those of you who enjoy medical drama, what's an illness or injury you would like to have fictionally inflicted upon one of the Boys? Give me some ideas! LOL
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:06:34 PM ---Thanks, me too. I don't know if it's the speed or what, but in general it seems pretty good. I'd feel really excited to finish my magnum opus finally. I think this past week was the only time I felt frustrated between that sixteen days to write chapter and three days to edit chapter. I was a bit of a wreck! haha But in the grand scheme of things, sixteen days isn't even that long. And maybe that 16 days had more to do with the month long break than anything else, but then I wrote that other chapter in two days like normal, so who knows.
And great, if you agree that I shouldn't count those five years, then I won't. ;)
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Sixteen days really isn't bad, but I get the frustration. When you've been writing consistently and clipping right along, and then it takes you over two weeks to finish a chapter... ugh!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 18, 2021, 06:39:37 PM ---It's hard to set ideas to the side and hope you'll still be inspired when you have time for them. But it's also hard to finish stories when you try working on a million different things at once. Either way, it takes a certain level of discipline. I think writing the occasional short story while working on a novel is okay, though - sometimes it helps to take a break and write something different for a change.
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I agree, I think short things let out bursts of creativity that don't necessarily go with whatever you're currently working on, but also don't detract from it in the same way that a full novel would do.
What does everyone consider a short story? Is it word count or amount of chapters that make it short?
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 18, 2021, 06:39:37 PM ---I love bus crash stories too. Every BSB fanfic author should write at least one! Who here has and hasn't written a bus crash story?
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Guilty as charged. A bus crash is the catalyst in Gobosei. Who wants to be my one phone call? ;)
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 18, 2021, 06:39:37 PM ---I do have a database of my stories on Google Sheets. Maybe I should add a column for sort of malady each one featured.
For those of you who enjoy medical drama, what's an illness or injury you would like to have fictionally inflicted upon one of the Boys? Give me some ideas! LOL
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Ooh, what kinds of things do you track in there?
I'm just going to keep challenging you to make something mundane interesting. A cold? Herpes? A stubbed toe? Whatever. ;D
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 18, 2021, 06:42:15 PM ---Sixteen days really isn't bad, but I get the frustration. When you've been writing consistently and clipping right along, and then it takes you over two weeks to finish a chapter... ugh!
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Oh I know, it sounds so silly saying "And then it took me 16 days! What a long time!" when I know that it's taken me far, far, far longer to write a scene, let alone a chapter. But I think it was that consistency getting derailed that threw me. And now I'm right back to almost finishing the next chapter over a few days, so if this only happens once every twenty chapters or so for the rest of this epic, then I'll call it a win.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 11:26:37 PM ---I didn't realize it was only 10 chapters! That's an action packed crossover! I can see why it would be hard to get into the groove because it doesn't seem like a story that would have a lot of rising action and falling action, just catalyst fast-paced action then end. It's not like real life medical dramas are a lot of waiting around in the fast-paced hospital part, you know?
How many ER marathons did you let yourself get sucked into?
I'm guessing you mean the writers of the actual show, but do you think ER fanfic writers have that same skillset to seamlessly blend the medical stuff into appropriately paced action scenes?
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LOL I know! I tried to follow the pace and structure of an episode of ER, so there's a little bit of character introduction, but then the action rises quickly, builds to a climax, and then falls to a resolution. I always planned it as a ten-chapter novella, with each chapter centering on a different character (half BSB, half ER characters).
OMG, I must have watched the first seven episodes of Season 2 (when the story takes place) at least five times while working on that story. Usually I would end up finishing Season 2 and going on to Season 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... I think the last marathon I had, I made it most of the way through Season 10 before I stopped.
Yeah, I was talking about the actual show writers. I have never actually read an ER fanfic, so I don't know. I'm assuming that most people dedicated enough to write fanfic for ER at this point in time are older and familiar enough with ER jargon to be able to write a semi-believable medical scene, but that may be overly optimistic of me LOL. That reminds me of this funny post I came across when I was researching: "I'm Worried My Doctor May Have Watched Episodes of ER Instead of Going to Medical School"
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