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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: honey on July 21, 2007, 12:55:07 AM
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When you think you have a really good idea but then it just doesn't work no matter how you try and write it. I just did that with my new Supernatural fic. I hated how the last chapter turned out and tried to rewrite it a couple of times, but no matter what I did, the idea I wanted to do just wasn't going to work. Pissed me off. I think it's a little better now, but I had to change the entire idea behind what I was trying to do.
Damn characters having their own personalities and forcing me do it their way! -lol Anyone else ever have that problem?
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Remember Nick who refused to die?
Story of my life. :D
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I have that problem a lot with lines. Like I'll come up with a great witty, funny line for a character to say in a scene and I just can't work it in when I get down to it.
Or I have like what I did with my last UMS chapter where I had this lil part I really wanted to include at the end of the scene and completely forgot about it until after I had posted the chapter lol
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I hate that lol.
Cally and Nick were supposed to first kiss far sooner than they did. Nick fought me on that, the brat
I hate when characters nag you when your'e trying to write a paper too! lol. :P
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That happens to me all the time! The characters sabatoge my story and take over. Especially Scars and Protect and Serve. I don't even think i'm writing that one anymore. lol
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I hate when characters nag you when your'e trying to write a paper too! lol. :P
OMG yes! LOL It never ceases to amaze me how inspired I get when I have a paper to write for school that absolutely MUST be done. I think its sort of a lesser of to evils kind of thing.
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It really really REALLY sucks when that happens. I have the same problem with lines and stuff.
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yeah, my problem is that I'm really a stickler for character motivation. I can't just make my character do something for the sake of the story. If it doesn't make sense for them to be doing it, then I'm screwed and have to figure out a different way of doing it that doesn't take them out of character. My dialog is never really good enough to worry about whether or not its out of character lol it's usually too generic. Good dialog writers are my heroes!
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^ LOL I know what you mean. I hate that!! I really need for something to happen for the sake of the story, but... it doesn't really make sense for the characters to do it. That's an annoying problem to have LOL.
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I'm worrying about that characters being in character for my new story. :'( *worries*
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my characters always take the story in a direction I'm not thinking I'm going. Like in Darkness of Vampires, it was supposed to end after the first one and Kevin was not supposed to be so damn important but alas... he wanted to be important. :-D
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my characters always take the story in a direction I'm not thinking I'm going. Like in Darkness of Vampires, it was supposed to end after the first one and Kevin was not supposed to be so damn important but alas... he wanted to be important. :-D
LMAO that sounds like Kevin to me. :D
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Yeah, I have a really good chapter idea going on right now, but I can't seem to get it to work out the way I want it to. Not sure if it's because the characters aren't cooperating or because of how I'm going about writing the scene lol.
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AHH! *stabs my lead female character* She just HAD to force me to make her human, didn't she?!
I was trying to write part of a story where the lead female character is supposed to be very omnicient, but she doesn't WANT to be; she wants to be realistic, which totally doesn't fit the story, and she just- GRR!
lol, sorry, got a little carried away there. *smiles sheepishly*
Anyways, yeah, I completely understand how that goes.
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I definitely know what everyone is talking about. I get a GREAT idea in my head... then I start writing it down... and it is NOT like I had thought! So then I abandon it 95% of the time and just work on something I already have going. It's get so damn frustrating...
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Totally understand where your coming from. I had a weird scene that most of the time works well in my head and when I'm saying it out loud and writing it down, its like huh? Its funny but its irritating to figure out.
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That happens to me all the time! The characters sabatoge my story and take over. Especially Scars and Protect and Serve. I don't even think i'm writing that one anymore. lol
u not writing scars anymore :'(
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u not writing scars anymore :'(
Aww I will but at the moment I have absolutely no inspiration for any of them. I'm sorry :(
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Aww I will but at the moment I have absolutely no inspiration for any of them. I'm sorry :(
no is cool
If you have not got any inspiration in them their no point writing them
I just blame Nick lol ;D