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nicksgal:
I've been romping back around in the beginning of PBox and was having a hard time reverting Nick's character development, then started listening to some Now or Never again and it was suddenly like "Oh, there you are pre-character development PBox Nick."
Anyone else use method listening to get inspired? Like if you're writing a flashback or a story set in the past for instance?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on March 08, 2021, 02:58:38 PM ---I love this question. For me it depends on the story and how old he is. Like in RMTW I shatter Nick but this was a younger more self destructive Nick, so he reacts pretty badly at first.Making bad choices. I shatter Nick in a completely different way in When The Daylight's Gone, but this was a more mature Nick so while still broken he didn't slip back into old habits. In Show Me A Reason he's very angry because he's in such a bad place. In all of them though certain things still shine through, like trying to cope with a bad past, singing randomly (which I love that he actually does in real life and I got that right lol), and a reliance on the Backstreet Family as they're the ones who've been there. My Nick also tends to have a random brain which fits cause real life Nick is like that but truth be told a lot of his random thoughts are shit that just happens in my brain that I pass on to him.
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I love how you're all about shattering Nick at any age LOL. Angst angst angst!
Age definitely seems to be a big factor in how we all portray Nick. Is it the same with the other Boys, or do we mainly do this with Nick because he seems to have changed the most as a person over the course of the Boys' careers?
--- Quote from: Rose on March 08, 2021, 02:58:38 PM ---Which, what Boy would you say you put the most of yourself into when you write? Like when you write his character, which comes the closest to how you'd write yourself?
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I'm sure I put some of myself into all my characters, but different sides of myself into different characters. The one that comes closest to how I'd write myself is probably Howie, just because I think he's most like me in real life.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on March 08, 2021, 05:13:17 PM ---But lately, I've read other Howies and thought "Is Howie me?" So maybe it's Howie, haha.
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Howie is all of us. LOL
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 08, 2021, 06:35:17 PM ---Age definitely seems to be a big factor in how we all portray Nick. Is it the same with the other Boys, or do we mainly do this with Nick because he seems to have changed the most as a person over the course of the Boys' careers?
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I said this yesterday with portraying Kevin as "the only sane man" among the others, but that seems more like 90's BSB than current BSB. I definitely think age affects Nick the most just because we've seen him at so many different ages and a sixteen year-old is vastly different than an early twenty-something who is vastly different from a early thirty-something (Or at least in my personal experience, I cannot speak on what it's like to be forty, but I'm happy to take another hiatus and let you all know when the time comes. ;)). And by the time we really got a Kevin in the states, he was already mid-late twenties, so the difference probably seems so much smaller than if we'd been following them since 1993. I bet everyone watching them in Germany in 1995 would have a slightly different opinion about Kevin back then, haha. I'm sure a 90's era AJ would seem pretty different from a present day AJ too. And a 90's era Brian would likely lack some of the political undertones he gets now. If anything, Howie gets some secret sass and well-roundedness added as time goes on.
Realistically though, most of us tend to lean "Group featuring Nick," so we have the most varied character archetypes with major character development to draw from and speak on for Nick, regardless of what age he happens to be in the story. So maybe it's age compounded with that.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 08, 2021, 06:35:17 PM ---Howie is all of us. LOL
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lmao The more time goes, the more I also think this is true. Maybe that's why I keep pushing for a Howie trend, I just want us all to feel represented in a BSB fanfic and still have it be about BSB, haha.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on March 08, 2021, 05:18:36 PM ---I've been romping back around in the beginning of PBox and was having a hard time reverting Nick's character development, then started listening to some Now or Never again and it was suddenly like "Oh, there you are pre-character development PBox Nick."
Anyone else use method listening to get inspired? Like if you're writing a flashback or a story set in the past for instance?
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Sure! I'm almost always listening to something when I write. Usually it's instrumental music that fits the mood of the scene, but sometimes I change it up. I found this ambience video on YouTube a few years ago called "Beside Life Support" that is literally just a heart monitor and ventilator sound effect looped for an hour. I laughed at it at first, but then I tried playing it while I was writing an ICU scene, and it actually did help me focus and get into the scene. So I bust that out for scenes where it's appropriate. One of the top comments says "Who's here because they're writing fanfiction?" so I guess I'm not the only weirdo who does that LOL. I also listened to the ER score when I was writing my ER crossover; it made my trauma room scenes feel so much more dramatic LOL. And of course I listened to Harry Potter music while working on my HP crossover.
If I'm writing about BSB from the past, I sometimes play their songs from that time period. My current story is set in the Unbreakable era, so I listened to that album last week, and one of these weekends I'll watch the concert. I'm waiting until I'm closer to the tour part of the story. I think I posted about watching interviews from that era, which was helpful in reminding me of specific details I can include at some point, like Brian's big-ass white high-tops he wore all the time and AJ's guyliner.
RokofAges75:
My writing update for today:
I was hoping to finish Chapter 6 this weekend and did not, but now I'm thinking that may actually be better because it means I'm more likely to write during the week. I went to bed last night wishing I could stay up longer and finish my scene. I woke up this morning still feeling inspired, so I pecked out about 200 more words while I was drying my hair. I left off in mid-sentence, but I think leaving myself hanging like that actually helps me pick back up on it later... whereas if I was actually at a good stopping place, like the end of a scene or chapter, I would have a much harder time getting started next time I sat down to write. It's nice to know what comes next.
I feel like I always start out the work week really inspired and motivated from writing over the weekend, and then as the days ago on, that feeling wanes until Saturday morning, when I can sit down with a cup of coffee and build it back up again. That has been my routine lately.
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