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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 18, 2021, 10:10:39 PM ---Oh the cringe. Chapter 10, you were the last remnant of "how a high school teenybopper thinks a romance works." Or most of the last remnant. I've also gotten better at writing about amnesiacs with PTSD over the years than I was back then. However, at least I could look at PBox and cringe. The older things, I hated every second of looking at it when I went to find something for you all because we were all pulling out old things.
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Yep, that's exactly how I feel about Broken compared to most of the stories that came before it. But we all had to get those cringey teenybopper fanfics under our belt before we could write anything better. Would you ever consider going back to one of those older stories and rewrite or revise it the way you did Pbox?
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 18, 2021, 10:10:39 PM ---I said he fell in it. I didn't say he died from it. Obviously he cuts his hand on a rusty nail while he's in the sewer system, duh.
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Then he'll get tetanus, oh noes!!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 11:23:00 AM ---Yep, that's exactly how I feel about Broken compared to most of the stories that came before it. But we all had to get those cringey teenybopper fanfics under our belt before we could write anything better. Would you ever consider going back to one of those older stories and rewrite or revise it the way you did Pbox?
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It's true. Cringey teenybopper fanfics were good practice for developing all the things we would need to become better writers in the future. Thank goodness I learned how to do good character development! LMAO
Honestly, probably not! I know I could definitely write any of them better now than I did back then, but I think I'm lacking the desire to do so. And while I would say seeing how I could improve an early story with all my years of knowledge would be a good editing exercise, I think care is a big aspect of it. I care about PBox, so I was willing to sit through the cringey parts, figure out what needed to be better, then hack and slash them as needed. Those other ones, I would just sit and scream at, haha. But as you know, I never say never, so if I suddenly had an idea for a decent rewrite of an early fanfic, then I would do it. But I can't say that I have any desire to revisit Backstreet is Romeo & Juliet with battles of the bands or whatever the plots of any of those other things were.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 11:23:00 AM ---Then he'll get tetanus, oh noes!!
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Hope he's up on his boosters! :-*
nicksgal:
How's everyone's writing going this weekend? I sat down to write around 10ish and wrote pretty solidly until 2pm when I realized I hadn't showered or eaten yet today, oops.
It's also only February and I completed my new year's writing goal of attempting to write a sex scene, but I think I hate it and I'm pretty sure I can tell the story as planned without physically including it in the narrative. I'd say I spent a good chunk of my time laughing and googling synonyms when I hated what was visually on the page. There's only one part I think would be funny to keep and it's more for the "funny demon biology" than anything substantial. Ugh, I don't know. I have a long time to decide what to do with it, I suppose. Oh, Julie, that article you resurfaced when we discussed this late last week (or early this week) was right: "cock" is just more appealing than "dick." I think it's all the /c/ sounds.
I did also write an intentionally funny scene where Nick is horrible at pretending clouds are shaped like things, so that was fun.
What's my next writing goal and/or challenge for this year? Other than to write something that's not PBox related?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 04:25:17 PM ---It's true. Cringey teenybopper fanfics were good practice for developing all the things we would need to become better writers in the future. Thank goodness I learned how to do good character development! LMAO
Honestly, probably not! I know I could definitely write any of them better now than I did back then, but I think I'm lacking the desire to do so. And while I would say seeing how I could improve an early story with all my years of knowledge would be a good editing exercise, I think care is a big aspect of it. I care about PBox, so I was willing to sit through the cringey parts, figure out what needed to be better, then hack and slash them as needed. Those other ones, I would just sit and scream at, haha. But as you know, I never say never, so if I suddenly had an idea for a decent rewrite of an early fanfic, then I would do it. But I can't say that I have any desire to revisit Backstreet is Romeo & Juliet with battles of the bands or whatever the plots of any of those other things were.
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Makes sense! I don't think I would be able to go back and revise or rewrite any of my old stories either. What I've found myself subconsciously doing instead of recycling old storylines. This has not happened intentionally and may just be the result of my lack of creativity LOL, but I've realized that almost every novel I've written in the last ten years or so has elements in common with a story I wrote as a teenybopper. That's how I've ended up with multiple stories with similar premises, at least in terms of whatever misfortune I curse my characters with. I always twist it or take it in a new direction so it's never the same plot, but it's still a way to resurrect ideas that had potential, but were poorly executed because of how young and inexperienced I was when I wrote them.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 04:59:45 PM ---Makes sense! I don't think I would be able to go back and revise or rewrite any of my old stories either. What I've found myself subconsciously doing instead of recycling old storylines. This has not happened intentionally and may just be the result of my lack of creativity LOL, but I've realized that almost every novel I've written in the last ten years or so has elements in common with a story I wrote as a teenybopper. That's how I've ended up with multiple stories with similar premises, at least in terms of whatever misfortune I curse my characters with. I always twist it or take it in a new direction so it's never the same plot, but it's still a way to resurrect ideas that had potential, but were poorly executed because of how young and inexperienced I was when I wrote them.
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I say that you're allowed to recycle your own plots! I think you're subconsciously trying to improve on them without outright rewriting something that's over and done with. You just want to present the best body of work that you can. ;D
An even better reason to get your malady spreadsheet going. If the malady is in something pre-2003, then it's fair game to inflict on the same Boy again!
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