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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on June 29, 2021, 09:38:58 PM ---I've always wanted to know what a typical work-day schedule is. Do they always wake up at the same time? Have the same breakfast? What personal things do they make time for (or only if they stick to a routine)? What's the absolute latest they can be for a sound check (or what have you) without getting called out on it? What's a post-show ritual they can't go to sleep without doing? I'm sure it's different for everyone.
How long do they get to practice their parts before recording? What's the turnaround time on learning choreography? Do they save mementos from tours? Like does someone still have their surfboard?
Just random stuff like that?
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Those are all great questions! I have also wondered what they do all day before a show (or at least before soundcheck). And how quickly they can pick up new songs and choreography. The videos of BackSync rehearsing at Lance's house were super cute. They reminded me of the year I did a 90s boyband number with a group of teachers at my school for the teacher act in our talent show; we learned the choreo for Everybody and Bye Bye Bye and rehearsed in my classroom just like that LOL.
It seems like they do save mementos. Brian loaned a ton of stuff to the Grammy Museum exhibit, so it seems like he keeps a lot. AJ posted a TikTok with a shirt he'd worn onstage during the Black & Blue tour. I'm not sure about the surfboards, but that would have been a cool thing to keep!
They should just film a reality show during their next tour or album cycle and give us some answers!
--- Quote from: nicksgal on June 29, 2021, 09:38:58 PM ---I have an answer for this, but you're not going to like it, lol! Because... it depends on the community. Many of the pricier ones will have gate attendants, but only for certain days or times (though I'm sure some may be staffed in shifts 24 hours a day, I just haven't run into any of those); I think this is more for security than actual gate attending. Otherwise, the gates are typically coded. Sometimes they have two different gates, one for residents and one for guests. And keycards for residents are becoming more of the norm than code boxes, though there is still that option for guests. The code a guest inputs might be tied to an individual home or it might be a communal "guest code" that changes frequently. I will add the caveat that I have not been to gated communities with A-lister celebrities, so they might lean more toward a staffed gate, but they also may not.
I can't speak for certain on the individual driveway gates one way or the other, but a friend does some contracting work for a local celebrity and says it's a code for them (I asked once, but more along the lines of "how do you get into their house if they aren't home to let you in?"). But I assume it depends on if they pay someone to watch that. I know that if I had a friend coming over, I'd rather they could just let themselves in instead of me having to press a million buttons to buzz them through, at least until they got to the actual front door, lol.
So like, Justin "24 hour parenting is not normal" Timberlake probably has a buzzer, whereas I could see Nick not wanting to get up from what he was doing to let someone in until they got to the door. Didn't Rose say she'd been to his area when she was younger? She might have a more Backstreet-adjacent specific answer on this one.
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LOL I do like your answer because it sounds like it could be any of the above, which means whatever I've written on this topic in my stories was probably fine. Thanks! All that makes perfect sense.
I know Nick lives in a gated community called Southern Highlands, so he probably doesn't even have a gate in front of his own driveway. Rose would probably know more.
Also, LMAO at Justin "24 hour parenting is not normal" Timberlake. What an entitled douche.
FrickingKaos:
How is everyone’s writing going? I’ve been doing pretty good even without feedback, which like I said previously is very surprising. I usually am able to crank out a chapter a week, depending on when during the week I get one started. I try to shoot for updating on Mondays, Wednesday at the latest. I think this system has helped me a lot, not to mention it seems like I am more productive writing at night than I am during the day.
Does anyone else have a preferred time they write?
FrickingKaos:
In response to the gated community discussion I can kind of chime in here, my aunt lives in a gated community in Vegas just off of the Las Vegas strip. There was a gate at the entrance but not at each of the homes, and there was a little guard station but the guard wasn’t always there. I think she had to show some kind of card in front of the sensor fo the gate to go up.
I looked up where Nick lives and he lives on the edge of a golf course, according to google maps. His house is pretty easy to find, but it doesn’t have a gate around the actual house just around the community where he lives. Sorry for sounding like a stalker lol but I was on this website about celebrity homes and Nick’s just happened to be on there.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on June 30, 2021, 06:39:09 PM ---How is everyone’s writing going? I’ve been doing pretty good even without feedback, which like I said previously is very surprising. I usually am able to crank out a chapter a week, depending on when during the week I get one started. I try to shoot for updating on Mondays, Wednesday at the latest. I think this system has helped me a lot, not to mention it seems like I am more productive writing at night than I am during the day.
Does anyone else have a preferred time they write?
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You're on a roll! Good for you! Sounds like you've gotten into a good routine.
My writing is going pretty well this week, although I didn't write as much this morning as I have the last two days and am not going to make my Nano goal. I'm on the last scene of Chapter 23, so my goal for today is just to finish that chapter so I can start July Camp Nano on a new chapter.
Here is our group again, in case anyone else would like to join us and set a goal for Camp Nano. It starts tomorrow! https://nanowrimo.org/writing-groups/the-absolutely-chaotic-backstreet-project
I am back to my night owl writing routine as well. I had been doing my best writing first thing in the morning after I wake up, but now that I'm staying up later and sleeping until later in the day, I can't justify staying in bed ALL day to write. At some point I have to get up and take care of stuff I can't do in the middle of the night, like errands and yard work. So I've switched to writing late at night, which has always been my favorite time to write. It has rained like every night the last two weeks, so I've been going upstairs to my writing room where I can hear the rain on the roof and open the window because it's cooler at night, and it's been so pleasant!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on June 30, 2021, 06:46:29 PM ---In response to the gated community discussion I can kind of chime in here, my aunt lives in a gated community in Vegas just off of the Las Vegas strip. There was a gate at the entrance but not at each of the homes, and there was a little guard station but the guard wasn’t always there. I think she had to show some kind of card in front of the sensor fo the gate to go up.
I looked up where Nick lives and he lives on the edge of a golf course, according to google maps. His house is pretty easy to find, but it doesn’t have a gate around the actual house just around the community where he lives. Sorry for sounding like a stalker lol but I was on this website about celebrity homes and Nick’s just happened to be on there.
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Thanks, Tracy! That looks like how Nick's community works too. I have also creeped it on Google Maps and used Street View to see what the entrance to the community looks like. There's a sign directing visitors to check in at the guard station, whereas residents can scan their card or whatever for the gate to go up.
It's crazy how much information you can find on the internet these days. That's how I was able to piece together a blueprint of Kevin's old house, because there are still pictures from the real estate listing online from when he sold it back in 2009. I've got the same thing for Nick's Franklin house and relied on those pictures a lot when I was writing Curtain Call and other stories that took place when he still owned it. It is helpful to us as writers, but also a little scary when it comes to finding info on their current homes. Good thing they have those gates and security guards! LOL
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