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Featured Story of the month for November 2007 - Somewhere I Belong by Teri
julilly:
--- Quote from: Teri on November 20, 2007, 12:26:52 PM ---alot of OMG THAT'S SO SAD! but I figured that would happen. It's the tragedy they need right now!!
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Well, like every story, something has to happen that is dramatic and unexpected, the climax, otherwise it would just be the same thing chapter after chapter (of course there are some fics out there like that but... yeah lol) it's just a matter of knowing how to do it without being unrealistic or over the top, and being able to write it and I think you did both those things very well!
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: Teri on November 19, 2007, 07:21:10 PM ---yes it does scare me, like tonight i had a major freak out, just ask tri and mel. cuz this chapter is so huge and important and there's something that happens that sets the tone for the next almost ten chapters before things start to get better. and well it's just huge and tri and mel had to talk me out of quitting completely.
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It's true lol Last night I had to shake a little sense into her and remind her that she chose the path the story was going down for a reason and if she backed down from it, the story would definitely not have the same poignant effect that it was meant to have and I think in her alternate option it definitely would've hit a wall at some point or another. So although it was definitely hard writing a scene as emotional as the one she just did was, the pay off will be greater in the longer run.
Tri:
--- Quote from: Teri on November 19, 2007, 07:21:10 PM ---yes it does scare me, like tonight i had a major freak out, just ask tri and mel. cuz this chapter is so huge and important and there's something that happens that sets the tone for the next almost ten chapters before things start to get better. and well it's just huge and tri and mel had to talk me out of quitting completely.
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Yeah, I am SOOO glad you didn't quit. If you would've, I don't know what I would've done. (Hence, my freak attack all last night...) Anyway, I know that I didn't support what you wrote and I'm glad I got to explain why, but I know what you have planned and it's going to be great. Just remember that what you write is ultimately up to you... What you feel in your gut. So it's good that you stuck to your guns. If you enjoy what you write and you're confident in it, your readers will hopefully realize that and love it, too. :)
I should know better than to question Yoda in the future. :-X
Teri:
Wow....just wow...I didn't realize all of you thought it was that great or powerful a message. That's just....whoa.. .it means so much to me. I was up crying most of the night because I was like "great I just ruined my entire story!" but hearing all of your opinions, different though they may be. Have just reinforced my confidence in my writing...than k you so so much.
MellzBellz:
You DEFINITELY didn't ruin AS Teri. It takes SOOOO much to completely ruin a story. I mean I can definitely relate cuz I felt that way (to a much lesser degree cuz yea it definitely wasn't as emotional as your dilemma) with the end of UMS, but sometimes stories have to go to dark places to go to happy places. Like I said before unfortunately stories can't always be butterflies and sunshine all the time and I think the most memorable and sucessful stories are the ones that aren't afraid to go to painful places.
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