Fic Talk > Featured Story of the Month
Featured Story of the month for March 2008 - Prevailing Fate by Nijntje
A-rok Obsession:
--- Quote from: mare on March 01, 2008, 10:34:40 AM ---1) Tell us one thing about your story that no one else knows?
2) How long did it take you to write this entire story?
3) Give us a summary different from the one you have posted on AC, with a few more spoilers to make people tune in.
4) If you could cast this story as a movie who would play the main roles and why?
5) Have you ever thought of giving up on the story and if you did what made you continue to work on it?
6) What was your writing process? (Outline, make it up as you go along, the characters wrote it, I am Tonja and plagerized lol)
7) Who was your favorite character in this story and why?
8 ) You had to know this was coming, who was your least favorite?
9) Are all the boys in this one? If not why did you choose to exclude them?
10) If we like this story...then we'd love what story? (Could be by you or someone else) and obviously tell us why lol
You can both answer this one separately lol
--- End quote ---
i'll make my attempt at this.... lol,
1) hmmm, i guess a lot of the scenes we ended up with were totally different than what we had mapped out. lol. and we did bat around the idea of a completely different ending that at one point, i think we were gonna go with, then decided not to. also, for those not on DLS, this story started out as a forum challenge, you know, anyone who wanted to post a new chap could do so and nijntje and i ended up taking over and, voila...story!
2) wow, we started in 2005 and finished in 2007.
3) Everyone has their personal demons to deal with and Kevin, Howie, Brian and AJ were no exception. But when the secret Nick's been keeping is revealed to the rest of the group, resolve and walls come crumbling down. During the time their youngest brother needs them the most, all four men find themselves wrapped within their own struggles, fighting to come out on top. Can they put their past behind them to save Nick or will fate take it's course and leave them all with nothing more than a memory of what once was.
...okay, i SUCK at summaries. i apologize now...
4) hahaha, ummm, could we cast all the boys as themselves? that would freakin rock. if not, hmmm, i'm actually not too sure. leo woulda made a kick ass nicky back in the day. but damn, i'm not sure right now.
5) we went through points where it was really hard to keep going with this story, simply because life was getting in the way. lol, i mean, we both had school and jobs and it was hard to plan around that to talk about chapter ideas and what not. i know that for me, it was also hard to just get in the time to write. i did a lot of writing at work and what not but yeah, there were a few points where it got really hard but we prevailed! lol. ;)
6) the writing process was kinda all over the place but mainly, we'd throw ideas around and then go off of those on our own. we did a lot of e-mailing back and forth to see how the chapters were going. usually we'd make a rough outline, then either she or i would write the chapter, pass it back and forth, then give it a seal of approval or change it.
7) i have to admit that i really enjoyed writing kevin's POV during this story, just cuz there was so much to work with but aj was my fave character. i wanted to really show him going through his up's and down's and everything and it was a bit of a challenge but i loved it.
8) howie was difficult to weave in...just cuz i feel like i "know" him the least but i think we got a good amount of him.
9) yep, they're all in this. gotta love the brotherly love.
10) hmm, i actually can't think of any stories aside from some old school ones. like 'where can we go from here' and a lot of bobbi's stories, like 'alive'. they're stories about the boys fighting to stay together and overcome...it's always nice to see.
DaniGiggles:
Hey, congrats you two! I'll have to definitely check this story out ;D
Rose:
awww yay!
mare:
Hi Ladies,
I'm going to ask some Oprah type questions now since next week i'll be pretty quiet since i'll be in moving hell lol
1. What made you decide to write about cancer? And how much research went into the whole writing process?
2. How did you go about deciding who was writing which chapters and did you ever disagree on the direction of the story?
3. Why Nick? lol
A-rok Obsession:
--- Quote from: mare on March 03, 2008, 05:56:23 PM ---Hi Ladies,
I'm going to ask some Oprah type questions now since next week i'll be pretty quiet since i'll be in moving hell lol
1. What made you decide to write about cancer? And how much research went into the whole writing process?
2. How did you go about deciding who was writing which chapters and did you ever disagree on the direction of the story?
3. Why Nick? lol
--- End quote ---
i'll take a shot...
1) the whole cancer thing kinda just fell into place with the pace of the forum challenge. we did A LOT of research about it, especially during the testing phases of the story. we wanted to make sure it was factual and everything else. plus, it was interesting to take a nonfictional approach during those points.
2) we did lots of brainstorming, usually we switched off, just back and forth but it one of us was getting stuck or something, we'd trade. sometimes there were ideas that one of us thought about that got incorporated into the other person's add and vice versa. it was just a lot of back and forth. it took awhile to decide on the ending i think, we, well, not really argued, but debated on which direction to go in for a long time.
3) to me, nick is the easiest one out of the group to manipulate when it comes to emotions. because he's the youngest guy, and there's already so many rumors/truths/stereotypes surrounding his relationship(s) with kevin, howie, aj and brian, it was easy to play off of that. nick is kinda the glue that holds them all together because the need to help out their youngest brother triumphs over everything. plus, it's just fun to torture him. lol.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version