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Ugh... Great minds thinking alike in the fan fic world
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: honey on February 02, 2008, 12:30:49 AM ---the ones with all three of those elements make for the best stories... Grosse Point Blank... One of my favorite movies ever... sunshine, bunnies and bloodbaths! All in the same movie!! YAY!
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Now if only I could find a way to get that sunshine and those bunnies into Pbox.... *ponders* lmao
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 02, 2008, 12:22:38 AM ---But that's what I think makes fanfic so fun. It's because everyone writes differently and we all get to enjoy everyone's differing opinions and world views. :)
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I live by this code: "Whatever floats your boat as long as you don't sink mine."
Too bad not everyone does.
Aww poor Sarah joining the thread late. The story isn't a big idea basically it has a very similair plot in the whole Alyssa/Sean/Nick/Shayla rectangle only different characters. It IS hard to come up with original romance ideas which is why I try to focus more on angst. For instance I'll use an affair since that's where my story is heading. I COULD focus soley on the physical side of having an affair. I'm hoping though to go the angstier (is that a word?) route and take each character and discuss how the affair impacts each character. There's a lot of REALLY good emotional material there I think to delve into which a lot of other writers might overlook.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 02, 2008, 12:22:38 AM ---But that's what I think makes fanfic so fun. It's because everyone writes differently and we all get to enjoy everyone's differing opinions and world views. :)
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Oh yeah, that's true. But... I guess, to me, what Mel and I were talking about is like this... when I was in junior high and high school, I had to read a lot of classic literature for my English classes that I didn't particularly enjoy. Just to throw an example out there, I remember having to read "Across Five Aprils" in 7th grade and HATING that book. I don't even remember WHY I hated the book anymore because I barely remember the story, just that it takes place during the Civil War and the main character's name was Jed or something. I even like history, but I disliked that book; I probably thought it was boring. Obviously, it must have some redeeming value for my teacher to make us read it, and maybe if I read it again now, as an adult, I would figure out what that was, but at the time, I just thought it was a boring piece of crap. Probably there was something I was supposed to "get" from it and did not, but my teacher did get, and that's why she liked the book enough to assign it to us when she could have assigned countless other classics.
All stories are up for interpretation, but as the writer, you know what you're going for, and you know when someone just doesn't "get" that, and while you may appreciate them reading and offering their opinions, you may not value them as much as the people who do seem to "get" it. I did not "get" Across Five Aprils. I comprehended it, but I failed to see whatever magic it offered that made it worthy of reading in seventh grade. That doesn't mean it's a bad book, and it doesn't mean I was wrong either... it's just one of those things that comes down to a combination of taste and life experience, I guess. I bet if I were to read that book now, I would probably like it a little more, but I still might not love it.
Hopefully that semi-rambling post made sense LOL.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: MellzBellz on February 02, 2008, 12:31:50 AM ---I live by this code: "Whatever floats your boat as long as you don't sink mine."
Too bad not everyone does.
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I think everyone here does though. :)
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 02, 2008, 12:37:21 AM ---I think everyone here does though. :)
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Yea everyone who regularly posts here is kewl. *huggles*
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