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mare:
I am always afraid I'm repeating myself. Halfway through my last chapter, I had written a flashback about the first time they called themselves a couple and I had to stop because I thought I vaguely remembered coming up with a flashback about how they became a couple earlier in the story and to make matters worse, it wasn't even the same scenario. I made two different stories about the first time they dated. LOL I'm glad I caught that.
When I edit, I find myself using a lot of the same words for no reason. I'm a real 'though' culprit. I must delete about 5 of those per chapter. I put them in everywhere. I also tend to use way too many hes in a paragraph. One thing I have changed from when I used to write BSB to now, with the exception of my very first story, all my other ones have been in third person. In BSB I used to always write in first person and only occasionally use third. Because of that, sometimes my descriptors are lacking. He is the worst. I find myself coming up with such stupid things to say. "The well-mannered kidnapper said," being my favorite.
Torturing characters is much easier than doing it to real life people. I don't feel as guilty, especially when I go into their emotional states and family troubles. I mean that's what the show is all about so it's fine to talk about Ken having suicidal tendencies or Roman having an eating disorder. But saying those things about Nick was a little harder because he was a train wreck in real life. About killing. I'm still not sure if I would kill one of them off. It wouldn't be an ethical thing for me though, just doesn't seem like something I'd want to do, for now at least.
mare:
Oh, yeah...singing as well. I would totally sing along. I forgot to mention when I replied to your earlier post, that I have listened to a lot of those bard core things. I used to use them in my classroom when talking about arranging and how you can change the genre of a song while still keeping the melody and words.
I'm not really familiar with James Newton Howard. I'll have to listen to him. I think I've told you before that I never watched The Walking Dead, but I would sometimes just watch until the theme song played then change the channel. Lol Apparently Bear does a lot of video game soundtracks too. I wasn't aware of that. That's a whole other beast.
Yes, those two songs are from the final season. I think it has the best music then the other three. I completely relate them to what happened in the show. The We Gave it A Go I would not have much cared about because it was a Tom and Shiv scene, but the music had me balling. And the other one was from the very final scene of the series. When it stops the show ends.
I decided to come back before bed to answer these. I did manage to write at least a half a page today so yay me!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on June 19, 2024, 09:00:19 PM ---I am always afraid I'm repeating myself. Halfway through my last chapter, I had written a flashback about the first time they called themselves a couple and I had to stop because I thought I vaguely remembered coming up with a flashback about how they became a couple earlier in the story and to make matters worse, it wasn't even the same scenario. I made two different stories about the first time they dated. LOL I'm glad I caught that.
When I edit, I find myself using a lot of the same words for no reason. I'm a real 'though' culprit. I must delete about 5 of those per chapter. I put them in everywhere. I also tend to use way too many hes in a paragraph. One thing I have changed from when I used to write BSB to now, with the exception of my very first story, all my other ones have been in third person. In BSB I used to always write in first person and only occasionally use third. Because of that, sometimes my descriptors are lacking. He is the worst. I find myself coming up with such stupid things to say. "The well-mannered kidnapper said," being my favorite.
Torturing characters is much easier than doing it to real life people. I don't feel as guilty, especially when I go into their emotional states and family troubles. I mean that's what the show is all about so it's fine to talk about Ken having suicidal tendencies or Roman having an eating disorder. But saying those things about Nick was a little harder because he was a train wreck in real life. About killing. I'm still not sure if I would kill one of them off. It wouldn't be an ethical thing for me though, just doesn't seem like something I'd want to do, for now at least.
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Sorry I didn't reply yesterday; I'm in Michigan visiting my sister. Heading home Sunday!
I'm glad you caught that before you posted and had two different flashbacks with two different version of how they became a couple LOL. I wonder if your readers would have noticed? I always worry about messing up details like that, especially in a long story where it gets hard to remember everything I've written. I've gotten better at keeping a list of character notes in my outline and updating it whenever I add something like that to the story so I can keep it consistent, but I still catch those inconsistencie s sometimes.
I've learned through Reddit that third person POV is heavily preferred over first person for fanfics, so that's probably a good thing that you switched. My current story is in first person because its predecessor was, but I'll probably go back to third person after this unless I have a good reason to write in first. I prefer first for slash stories because it cuts down on the overuse of male pronouns and makes things less confusing, but otherwise, I prefer third. I don't mind writing or reading first, though, as long as it's in past tense. I'm not a fan of present tense stories; I hope that trend goes away soon.
I'm not surprised to hear that torturing fictional characters is easier. I still struggle with that RPF guilt, although obviously not enough to make me stop LOL. It goes back to what we said before about seeing them differently as fanfic characters than we do as their real life selves. If I couldn't separate fiction from reality, I would not be able to write half the stuff I do.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on June 19, 2024, 09:12:53 PM ---Oh, yeah...singing as well. I would totally sing along. I forgot to mention when I replied to your earlier post, that I have listened to a lot of those bard core things. I used to use them in my classroom when talking about arranging and how you can change the genre of a song while still keeping the melody and words.
I'm not really familiar with James Newton Howard. I'll have to listen to him. I think I've told you before that I never watched The Walking Dead, but I would sometimes just watch until the theme song played then change the channel. Lol Apparently Bear does a lot of video game soundtracks too. I wasn't aware of that. That's a whole other beast.
Yes, those two songs are from the final season. I think it has the best music then the other three. I completely relate them to what happened in the show. The We Gave it A Go I would not have much cared about because it was a Tom and Shiv scene, but the music had me balling. And the other one was from the very final scene of the series. When it stops the show ends.
I decided to come back before bed to answer these. I did manage to write at least a half a page today so yay me!
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I bet the kids enjoyed listening to the bardcore songs. I think they're so fun!
James Newton Howard composed the music for The Hunger Games trilogy and most of M. Night Shyamalan's movies, among other things. He isn't as well-known as composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman, but I really enjoy a lot his scores. They make great writing music because they can create a mood without being distracting.
The Walking Dead does have a great theme song! I appreciate shows that still have theme songs and credit sequences. Game of Thrones is another really good one, so good that they've reused the same theme song for House of the Dragon.
You'll probably hear the Succession theme in the Olympics this year, unless Ilia Malinin changes his figure skating program before then. That was a great choice of music for him. I've gotten some good writing music from watching figure skating, especially in other Olympic years, so I'm looking forward to that!
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 21, 2024, 10:27:41 PM ---Sorry I didn't reply yesterday; I'm in Michigan visiting my sister. Heading home Sunday!
I'm glad you caught that before you posted and had two different flashbacks with two different version of how they became a couple LOL. I wonder if your readers would have noticed? I always worry about messing up details like that, especially in a long story where it gets hard to remember everything I've written. I've gotten better at keeping a list of character notes in my outline and updating it whenever I add something like that to the story so I can keep it consistent, but I still catch those inconsistencie s sometimes.
I've learned through Reddit that third person POV is heavily preferred over first person for fanfics, so that's probably a good thing that you switched. My current story is in first person because its predecessor was, but I'll probably go back to third person after this unless I have a good reason to write in first. I prefer first for slash stories because it cuts down on the overuse of male pronouns and makes things less confusing, but otherwise, I prefer third. I don't mind writing or reading first, though, as long as it's in past tense. I'm not a fan of present tense stories; I hope that trend goes away soon.
I'm not surprised to hear that torturing fictional characters is easier. I still struggle with that RPF guilt, although obviously not enough to make me stop LOL. It goes back to what we said before about seeing them differently as fanfic characters than we do as their real life selves. If I couldn't separate fiction from reality, I would not be able to write half the stuff I do.
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Oh, fun! I hope you're having a great time.
I sometimes wonder about that too. If the readers catch all the inconsistencie s. Sometimes when I go reread an older chapter to remember something I'll wince because I notice oops the name of the store I used changed or I forgot he mentioned that already. No one's ever said anything.
I know when I read things, I never really notice. I'm reading a novel now that's a sequel to a story I read forever ago, and I really loved that novel but for the life of me, I can't place the main character of this one at all! I mean I know she was in the first one because I remember the description, but who she was and what she did, no clue! I even went back and checked the Goodreads summary and my own review and neither of them mention this person! I feel like how I do when someone tries to friend me on FB and we have a million friends in common and supposedly were in the same click but I have no clue who they are! Anway, maybe after a few chapters, I'll figure out who the main character is. I guess the good news is, you can read this sequel without having to have read the first book. LOL
Not to go off on a tangent, but this one girl named Leslie, who always comments on my posts and always talks about oh my god I remember when we went there! That was so much fun!!! And I STILL for the life of my have no idea who she is! I have messaged all of my high school friends and most of them are the same as me. It's like this person was a part of our group, which admittedly was big, but not one of us has a clue who she is!
I always prefer reading and writing in first person, but I know what you mean. It seems like the general consensus enjoys third person. Most of the things I read are third person, but sometimes there is too much emphasis on description and not enough dialogue and for me the dialogue is what moves a story along.
It is a good thing we can separate real from fiction. I try to do that with people too. Not to always judge them for certain things they say and try to separate that from other things I like about them. If I didn't do that, i'd hardly have any friends. Especially when it comes to politics! LOL
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