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Ugh... Great minds thinking alike in the fan fic world
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 02, 2008, 12:16:01 AM ---That's a good point, about looking at whose opinions you really value. I kinda figured that out too. For instance, one of the people who kinda turned on my characters early on in BMS, yet continued to read and send feedback, was a writer herself and wrote a completely different kind of romance than what BMS is, and I realized after awhile that she just didn't "get" it. She didn't "get" what I was going for. Whereas other people were totally on the same page as me; they "got" Nick and Claire and their relationship and so on. So I put more value in their feedback than the other's. Although when one of those turned and started critiquing, then it sucked because I knew she had a point in what she was saying.
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Very similair situation here. Some people just are completely different writers and have completely different styles and I've come to learn that you can't change a person and MAKE them write how you want the story to go. If I'm getting sick of the direction a story is heading in so much so that it upsets me to that extent, the best thing is to stop reading and shut up and stop complaining.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 02, 2008, 12:17:39 AM ---Well, yeah LOL. You have to go with what you think is the right way to end it, whether it's happy, sad, or bittersweet, and no matter what your readers will think.
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I think my readers think I'm a terrible person. lol
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: honey on February 02, 2008, 12:18:10 AM ---lol I'd say I'm a fan of fluffy. I'm hardly an expert on anything.
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You're an expert compared to me. lol
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: honey on February 02, 2008, 12:14:51 AM ---lol this is true. but my stories usually tend to merit happy endings. I think Searching For Mecy was the closest thing I've ever written to a not perfect ending and it was that I just couldn't end it fluffy when all those messed up people weren't fluffy. but then Searching For Mercy isn't my best story either. So maybe I should just leave the angst up to the pros...
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Aww... Kelly I LOVED Searching for Mercy! How's the sequel going?
Sakabelle:
I like sad endings sometimes... they make you think. Although, happy endings can do that as well. I suppose it's true, the ending needs to fit with the story. Typically I like to have some parts work out, and some parts not go exactly according to plan. Also, I like to kill off my characters... cause I'm horrible and sadistic like that..:P
I actually wrote story way back in the day with the purpose of it having a sad. Mostly because I got irritated with all the fluffy teenyboppper perfect romance back on FF.net... I gave them a sad story... some liked it, some didn't, it was good times.
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