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Fanfic cliches
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: Rose on June 23, 2007, 04:01:48 PM ---In sci fiction stories...now this a cliche thats older and not used as often, but I don't see many sci-fis anymore either. It's almost died in the BSB fanfic fandom. But having the ten destined heroes (BSB and Nsync) plus one girl who's been pulled along for the ride. Only one I saw pull it off right was Whitney, and her story The Legend was classic. But then everyone tried to do it too.
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I started something like that. :D But it's five, not ten... And it's more fantasy, less sci-fi... And the woman is pulling the strings... *evil grin* Okay, not really, but... I actually plan on making it an original comic someday... it's only BSB now because I started it as a present for Nick and never finished... *shrug*
julilly:
Friends who happen to fall in love stories make me want to vomit. I kid you not, I actually feel sick to my stomach when I open them in my browser lol
I also hate, hate, HATE..."girl goes to concert, meets *insert bsb name here*, that night they invite her on tour and they are forever in love" -- pipe dreams!
I'm tired of the stalker/kidnapping storyline but I feel that it definitely has room for innovation, and improvement. Just as long as there isn't a firey bus crash involved.
I try really hard to write outside the box, and not completely surround my fics with cliche. Obviously you're going to get a few because they wouldn't be cliche if people didn't use them, but the job is just to make it so people read it as your own, not as "same ole, same ole." It's okay to use cliches, as long as you make it your own. You can't always have a new plot -- in most cases it's impossible to have a brand new, never used before in the history of life fanfic plot.
But seriously, if there's a bus crash that leads ultimately to Nick falling in love with a forest ranger then being diagnosed with cancer caused by tanning bed exposure and too much sex then a week later he finds out some chick he slept with had his child... write something else.
mare:
--- Quote from: julilly on June 23, 2007, 06:03:46 PM ---But seriously, if there's a bus crash that leads ultimately to Nick falling in love with a forest ranger then being diagnosed with cancer caused by tanning bed exposure and too much sex then a week later he finds out some chick he slept with had his child... write something else.
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Well that just killed my next story idea, thanks a lot! *deletes Swollen, Faceless chance encounter with Mare the gorgeous, pregnant best friend of Nick the kidnapped forest ranger* :( <-- the title was too long anyways. lol
julilly:
--- Quote from: mare on June 23, 2007, 06:23:27 PM ---Well that just killed my next story idea, thanks a lot! *deletes Swollen, Faceless chance encounter with Mare the gorgeous, pregnant best friend of Nick the kidnapped forest ranger* :( <-- the title was too long anyways. lol
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lmao -- I think I just hurt myself from all the laughter. :P
Now that you mention it though, I dislike it when writers use their own name as the main female character!
Rose:
--- Quote from: julilly on June 23, 2007, 06:03:46 PM ---But seriously, if there's a bus crash that leads ultimately to Nick falling in love with a forest ranger then being diagnosed with cancer caused by tanning bed exposure and too much sex then a week later he finds out some chick he slept with had his child... write something else.
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LMFAO okay I almost choked on my soda between you and Mare just now.
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