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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 07:27:43 PM ---Is it because there's not many weird side effects or life or death hospital scenarios? Aw, yeah, if you didn't come up with it from the beginning, it wouldn't be very interesting to you.
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I don't know, maybe. I did manage to work side effects and hospital scenarios into that story, but it still sucked. I guess I just don't personally find addiction interesting enough to write about as the main plot of a story. The original painkiller one was a Brian story, but I've never written one about AJ or Nick's substance abuse issues either. They pop up in back story because that history is part of who they are, but it's never been a focus for me.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 07:27:43 PM ---lmao. In all seriousness, I've got demons, angels, elementals... What am I missing?
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Hm... fairies? Mermaids? (Ooh, your sea monster could be a scary mermaid, like in Harry Potter.)
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 07:32:39 PM ---LOL Maybe! If I plotted the length of my stories over time, I think it would resemble a bell curve. I got more and more long-winded leading up to BMS, which was 200 chapters (plus an epilogue and post-epilogue), then have progressively been working my way back to more reasonably-lengthed novels. Undead was 120 chapters, Curtain Call was 90, Sick as My Secrets was 80, A Heart That Isn't Mine was 50, and Bethlehem was only 22. I also had Secrets of the Heart in there between Curtain Call and SAMS, which was only 25 chapters. I think My Brother's Keeper will be longer, like maybe 50, but not 100.
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Those are a lot longer than I was thinking, haha. But, you know I like my 50 chapter stories. Do you see yourself finding a story that needs to be BMS length again or no?
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 07:32:39 PM ---LOL No, killing Nick can happen for any and all reasons, including pure entertainment purposes!
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I think Nick would say otherwise (and PBox Nick), but that's part of the fun! ;)
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 07:37:09 PM ---I don't know, maybe. I did manage to work side effects and hospital scenarios into that story, but it still sucked. I guess I just don't personally find addiction interesting enough to write about as the main plot of a story. The original painkiller one was a Brian story, but I've never written one about AJ or Nick's substance abuse issues either. They pop up in back story because that history is part of who they are, but it's never been a focus for me.
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I think the personal demons bit is more interesting than the medical aspects of it.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 07:37:09 PM ---Hm... fairies? Mermaids? (Ooh, your sea monster could be a scary mermaid, like in Harry Potter.)
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You know, mermaid mythology is actually really interesting. At the moment, that joke is still just a joke in my mind, but who knows... Maybe mermaids was what it was missing. ;)
I have no good fairy ideas. Realistically, how the demons in PBox function is more like how fae would function than how demons typically function. So... :shrug:
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 07:43:32 PM ---Those are a lot longer than I was thinking, haha. But, you know I like my 50 chapter stories. Do you see yourself finding a story that needs to be BMS length again or no?
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LOL No. But I never thought Broken or BMS would be as long as they were! However many chapters it takes me to tell the story I want to tell is how long it will be.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 07:51:01 PM ---You know, mermaid mythology is actually really interesting. At the moment, that joke is still just a joke in my mind, but who knows... Maybe mermaids was what it was missing. ;)
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Did you watch that mermaid "documentary" Animal Planet did a while back? It was called "Mermaids: The Body Found." It was fake, but it was so fascinating. Great science fiction that almost made it seem possible for mermaids to be real.
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