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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: FrickingKaos on December 22, 2010, 06:03:13 AM
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I am curious about this because I have had it happen to me recently. Have any of you had someone you know (that is not a BSB fan) read your fanfics? And if they did, what was their reaction? I keep forgetting my facebook and twitter are connected so I post links when I update and have had people tell me they read my work. So far its been positive, my manager told me I am good at descriptions. So have any of you let or had people read your work?
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My mom used to avidly read my fan fictions - back in the day of the original Planet Backstreet and The Legend of the Bone Ranger, lol - but other than you guys nobody's really read it recently. I let my sister read a chapter of Something Beautiful but in the interest of finding out if she thought the storyline would work if I adapted it for an original fiction. I'd changed names and a couple situation type things in the chapter she read though so I don't know if it counts.
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The only people who've read my stuff is other fanfic writers/readers. I don't link my Facebook and Twitter because I don't want my other friends/family/work colleagues reading my stuff.
I remember once updating my Facebook by mistake saying something like "next chapter posted" and my friend wanted to know what I was on about. I told her I was writing a fanfic and she had no idea what it was. I quickly deleted my post and made some silly little explanation up and she never asked anything else about it.
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I also had my co worker told me she read Tales From The Drive Thru and thought it was hilarious. Then my manager said he was reading Not The Other
Guy and enjoyed the scene where Nick quit his job at the video game store...he said he could picture it as it happened and that I made a nice visual for him. So that made me feel nice lol
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OMG aren't you bothered that they read your stuff? You're braver than me! I haven't got the confidence to show anyone my writing, well apart from posting it here :)
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I would NEVER let my coworkers or my family read my current fan-fiction. I'd probably puff into smoke. I barely have the balls to let them read my essays or my original fiction snippets when they ASK to read them, lol. It's not that I don't like my writing or that I'm not confident about it, it's just that I don't know where that line is where they won't judge me or be thrown off by my writing. The first time my dad read a story where a character swore, I about putzed. He did, too. I was like "Thats what the character would SAY there" and he's like "I get that but this is your writing and I've never heard you swear" and I feel like he doesn't understand that it's not ME swearing, its a CHARACTER, you know? Or pervy jokes that my characters would tell, I'd die if he saw some of those. LOL... I dunno, its weird.
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Like I said, I didn't even ask them to read, they found the links on facebook. That, and one time I gave my coworker at Taco Bell the link to Tales From The Drive Thru because he was the one who got stuck in the bathroom and I wrote about it. I gotta ask him if he read it LOL. I just feel confident enough to share I suppose.
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You are so much braver than I am, Tracy! I would be mortified if I found out any of my co-workers read my fics! That's why I never actually link to AC through my twitter, because my co-workers know about it. They know that I write since I had told them about NaNoWiMo, but they have no idea about the BSB piece of it.
Sometimes I will ask my boyfriend to beta read chapters of Running Up That Hill for me, just to help out with grammar and possible awkward sentences. But he often comments on the content and thinks some of the stuff the guys do (like Howie being obsessed with shopping IRL) is weird.
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I would be mortified too. The only people who have read anything of mine are my sister and my mom, and that was a way long time ago. When I first started writing fanfic, I was 14, still living at home and sharing a room with my sister, so it was hard to keep it a secret from her; she knew pretty much all along, and she read some of my early stuff, but then she stopped liking BSB and just made fun of me for it. I think my mom read a little of my very first fanfic when she found out about my site, but I was embarrassed and told her to please not read anymore, and she said she wouldn't. To this day, I honestly don't think she does... I think she would have mentioned it by now if she did. Also, I have a good site counter that tracks IPs and locations, so I can see if anyone from where I live visits my site LOL.
My friends don't know anything about fanfic, and I plan to keep it that way. Honestly, even though I have this goal of someday writing a novel that could be published, I'm not sure how I'd ever have the guts to actually publish it. I'd probably do it on the DL and not tell anyone except you guys LOL... which kind of defeats the purpose.
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I would NEVER let my coworkers or my family read my current fan-fiction. I'd probably puff into smoke. I barely have the balls to let them read my essays or my original fiction snippets when they ASK to read them, lol. It's not that I don't like my writing or that I'm not confident about it, it's just that I don't know where that line is where they won't judge me or be thrown off by my writing. The first time my dad read a story where a character swore, I about putzed. He did, too. I was like "Thats what the character would SAY there" and he's like "I get that but this is your writing and I've never heard you swear" and I feel like he doesn't understand that it's not ME swearing, its a CHARACTER, you know? Or pervy jokes that my characters would tell, I'd die if he saw some of those. LOL... I dunno, its weird.
I used to have a hard time making my characters swear as I don't really swear much in reality, only the odd "shit" here and there, lol. Now I find it easy to type the words I don't usually say :)
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Exactly, LOL. Like my stories are so different than my personality IRL... Nick and AJ are both total pervs with potty mouths!! LOL I'm closest to how I type Brian's dialogue I guess. The odd swear here and there, mostly innocent, yet capable of saying something off beat and shocking everyone around him... Thaaaaaat's mee-eeee :)
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I must be the brave one cause I don't care who reads as long as someone enjoys my work! My co workers all know about Figured You Out, sometimes I get good ideas...like torturing Nick with McDonald's food. That came from this guy I work with at Taco Bell. My best friend reads my work as well, she actually helps me with dialogue in Still The One, Not The Other Guy, and my Clone series. So I guess it just makes me happy someone is reading like I said.
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It's good to be brave! I wish I was. Sometimes I think if I wrote more of the rom-com kind of stories, I might be more willing to share them. Like 00Carter... I would let people read that, if I thought they would get it. But my typical stories... no way.
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Wow 00Carter. I think that was one of the first stories I ever read on AC and it is still one of my favorites.....
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I think the main reason I won't is because it's the BSB. Most people think I'm :crazy: then I explain what fan fiction is. They think its weird to write stories about people that exist. I don't understand why they think its so nuts but :shrug: ... But I think thats why I think it's so weird. My OF stories I wouldn't have a problem with my coworkers reading, most of the time anyways.
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Oh I can agree about that. All my co workers say I should try to write a book. My manager said my writing was good so it made me feel really good to hear someone enjoyed my work. I know people who write fanfics about anime and other things, so he understood what it was about. To each their own!
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It's good to be brave! I wish I was. Sometimes I think if I wrote more of the rom-com kind of stories, I might be more willing to share them. Like 00Carter... I would let people read that, if I thought they would get it. But my typical stories... no way.
I am just the opposite Julie. I would let people read my other stories before I would let them read any of my romance stuff. I would just feel so awkward having my friends read about Nick and his made up girlfriends. I would feel less weird letting them read Running Up That Hill or something along that lines because even if they thought it was weird, I could just say "It's my take on what happened. Whatever!" LOL
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Wow 00Carter. I think that was one of the first stories I ever read on AC and it is still one of my favorites.....
Aw, thanks!! I know we haven't updated since February, but we DO have an episode almost done, and it's a long one, so once it's officially done we'll start posting it in parts. It just takes us sooooo long to get anything done with that story.
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I am just the opposite Julie. I would let people read my other stories before I would let them read any of my romance stuff. I would just feel so awkward having my friends read about Nick and his made up girlfriends. I would feel less weird letting them read Running Up That Hill or something along that lines because even if they thought it was weird, I could just say "It's my take on what happened. Whatever!" LOL
I would feel awkward about a true romance with sex scenes and stuff. But something that was more light and funny, I might feel braver about.
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Yeah I will agree on that because I don't think I would let anyone read Incomplete.... that story is kind of out there. As for Tales From The Drive Thru, I would let my co workers read it because its about our job...and I used some things that happened at work in the story. As for my romance stuff...there is nothing too sexual so I wouldn't mind. I just enjoy writing and sharing my work....AC has been awesome to help me do that and grow in my writing. Like I said, I love hearing when someone likes my writing.
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I have a friend from work that I let read my stuff and another co-worker wants to read them because she is chomping at the bit for some more of my original fiction to be finished. She wants to read something of my... LOL.
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I share snippets of my stories with my mom. She loves the BSB, so she doesn't mind. There are just some things I write that I don't share...like sex scenes and such. LOL! The rest of my family would think I am werider than I am if they knew I wrote fan fiction.
None of my friends are into fan fiction, so I don't share with them. My co-workers are the same way. Many of them are older than me, so I think they would think it's rather strange. Plus, writing fan fiction is my gulity pleasure. It's where I go when I don't want to deal with reality. I can get into another character's mind and being a variety of characters. I love it.
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I'm totally in the closet with a lot of you...and I too would be mortified!
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Yes, I've had a few people who aren't remotely interesting in BSB read my stuff, especially my non-fanfic stories. In my creative writing classes, we had to share the stuff we wrote so that really helped me with my shyness.
I'm not really ashamed of it like I once was. Although I did freak out a few weeks ago when I logged onto my web site and saw that I was logged in on another computer. I forgot to log out on my computer at work and left the window open, so one of my BFF's and co-workers, he read some of my stuff and said that he liked it and that I was a really good writer. So that made me happy.
I've just found that if you're going to be real and true to yourself, don't be ashamed of what you do.
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I'm totally in the closet with a lot of you...and I too would be mortified!
Me too!