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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rose on July 26, 2012, 08:17:39 PM
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Started this cause I finally thought up a question and the other thread is about to hit 50 pages LOL.
In fanfic who is your favorite author, and how has that person helped inspire your work?
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Gift wise.... I got some Bath and Body Works stuff that was named "Enchanted" and the person said it was the Harley Harper perfume (character in "The Story of Us")
A reader sent me a necklace with a camera charm on it for my birthday because I take pictures and that's kind of related to one of my stories, Superstar.
A reader who became a really good friend of mine and has been for over 10 years now gave me a "How to write tacky romance novels" book once LMFAO
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Favorite author, it was Kristy from Under the Sheets. She was the first fan fiction author I ever read.
Not sure I really have a favorite anymore, though besides my friends.
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I have a lot of favorites but I don't know if I have an absolute favorite. I would probably say that Chaos inspired me the most. I loved his writing style & he did an incredible job writing in first person. I probably would have never tried doing that or suspense if it wasn't for him.
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Started this cause I finally thought up a question and the other thread is about to hit 50 pages LOL.
In fanfic who is your favorite author, and how has that person helped inspire your work?
That is such a hard question!! I feel like I have a lot of favorite authors, both on AC and off. Oddly enough, the authors whose work I read fairly regularly and the authors of my very favorite fanfics of all time are not necessarily the same people. I guess some authors I like for their overall style and consistency, and some authors I like for one amazing story they wrote.
If I had to put it all together and name one author who has consistently written stories that I've read, enjoyed, and been inspired by, I think it would be Carrie (Jenna on AC). I've been reading her stories since 2000, and although I haven't read all of them, I've read a lot of them, and she tends to write the kind of stuff I enjoy - medical dramas, tearjerkers, and suspense. The Swollen Issues series, which she co-wrote, was hugely inspirational to me and led to Broken, which is the story that I feel kind of put me on the map as a fanfic writer. She would also be one I'd name for the "Who could you bring back?" question. I'm not sure she's necessarily "gone" from fanfic; she's one of those who tends to come and go.
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^ Jenna was actually my second choice, her and Swenglish together. I meant to put them on my fanfic authors I miss list as well
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I miss her! She and her co-writers always managed to write the most addicting stories. I think I was more addicted to Swollen and Nick & Lizz than any other story I've followed as it was being written, and that's saying something!
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Between Ground Zero and Swollen Issues, I got sucked into this fandom lol
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Even though I had fanfic on my site and I had a review site for years I didn't really have a favorite BSB fanfic author. I have one at fanfiction.net Quirky Del. I've loved every fic of hers I've read. Amanda inspired me to write fanfic by being so into it herself, though she wrote about anime and video games she never judged my stories for being about BSB it was what I needed when I started.
Anyone's stories I read now inspire me to do better with my own stuff.
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I still haven't narrowed it down, hence my lack of an answer lol. That...and thanks to Saka Steph I'm watching OC lol.
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My favorite fanfic author...hmmm. ..
I would say Honey cause she wasn't afraid to write sappy romances and I just loved Searching For Mercy.
Also, although I kind of suck cause I start her stories and never finish...I would say Julie (rokofages). I always get sucked in by her stories, even though I'm not into descriptive stories. lol. Plus I find her very humble about her accomplishment s. ;)
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This shows how much I read fan fiction (even though I write the hell out of it), I don't know who any of the people you guys are naming are. LOL! I've just always been more of a fan fiction writer than a reader.
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Also, although I kind of suck cause I start her stories and never finish...I would say Julie (rokofages). I always get sucked in by her stories, even though I'm not into descriptive stories. lol. Plus I find her very humble about her accomplishment s. ;)
Thanks, Erika! LOL What's with the winky face after that comment?
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I have another question...man I kinda suck at answering, but I have a ton of questions. lol.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
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Thanks, Erika! LOL What's with the winky face after that comment?
Oh lord...lol. It was supposed to be the smiley one. My bad.
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This shows how much I read fan fiction (even though I write the hell out of it), I don't know who any of the people you guys are naming are. LOL! I've just always been more of a fan fiction writer than a reader.
A lot of them are old school. I don't know the writer Lore named, but I'm assuming she's also old school if she posted BSB stories on fanfic.net.
I love all you current writers too, but I was definitely more of an obsessive fanfic reader a decade ago, so I tend to be sentimental about my favorites from back then.
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Oh lord...lol. It was supposed to be the smiley one. My bad.
LOL It's okay, I was just like, hm... does that really mean I'm NOT humble or is there an inside joke there I'm supposed to get? :P You can tell me if I'm not humble (or PM me if there's an inside joke I didn't get LOL).
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A lot of them are old school. I don't know the writer Lore named, but I'm assuming she's also old school if she posted BSB stories on fanfic.net.
I love all you current writers too, but I was definitely more of an obsessive fanfic reader a decade ago, so I tend to be sentimental about my favorites from back then.
Quirky Del, she's still posting stories on fanfic.net, she didn't write BSB fic.
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I have another question...man I kinda suck at answering, but I have a ton of questions. lol.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
Absolutely! Surprisingly, some of my favorite stories have been the ones I was most skeptical to read, but did on someone's recommendation . "Cover Me With Dreams," which is probably my favorite fanfic of all time, was recommended to me by a reader when I was writing Broken. It took me two tries to get into it, but once I did, I was hooked! I like romance as a subplot and don't usually get sucked into ROMANCES, but that one... wow. Amazing. And it gave me a lot of inspiration for BMS, so I owe my sequel to that.
"Between the Lines" is another one I had tried to read several times before I finally made myself read it for Mare's old discussion group, and I was SO glad I did!! The fact that it was AU and about baseball had been major turn-offs to me before, but it's an amazingly well-written, heartfelt story that captures the guys and their relationships as well as any non-AU.
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Quirky Del, she's still posting stories on fanfic.net, she didn't write BSB fic.
Ohh, okay!
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Ohh, okay!
Yeah I know, I have strange fanfic beginnings. Might be why my plots are (well I think they are) out there.
I have another question...man I kinda suck at answering, but I have a ton of questions. lol.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
Since I was skeptical about a lot of BSB fanfic to begin with, yes I have done this. Years ago I read fanfic but can't remember most of what I read or the titles of hardly anything I read. The review site I had I reviewed a story that everyone seemed to think was the bees knees. I really disliked it. The plot was boring the female lead was... bleh (like I should talk I guess..lol). Since then I've been wary about reading stories that everyone raves about and since I diappeared from writing and reading for quite a few years I was skeptical to get into any stories, espeically the ones people raved about.
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I am MIA for like a day and I missed a lot of questions lol. I'm gonna eat dinner and wind down before I answer. Today was....interes ting to say the least.
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LOL It's okay, I was just like, hm... does that really mean I'm NOT humble or is there an inside joke there I'm supposed to get? :P You can tell me if I'm not humble (or PM me if there's an inside joke I didn't get LOL).
LOL!! No, I seriously think your one of the best writers on AC and you're really humble about it. YOu're not a bragger! No inside joke Julie.
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Yeah I know, I have strange fanfic beginnings. Might be why my plots are (well I think they are) out there.
Since I was skeptical about a lot of BSB fanfic to begin with, yes I have done this. Years ago I read fanfic but can't remember most of what I read or the titles of hardly anything I read. The review site I had I reviewed a story that everyone seemed to think was the bees knees. I really disliked it. The plot was boring the female lead was... bleh (like I should talk I guess..lol). Since then I've been wary about reading stories that everyone raves about and since I diappeared from writing and reading for quite a few years I was skeptical to get into any stories, espeically the ones people raved about.
LOL I guess we probably shouldn't ask the question, "Have you ever read a story because everyone was raving about it and found it overrated?" because that has the potential for starting drama, but I know what you mean. I think we've all been there!
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LOL!! No, I seriously think your one of the best writers on AC and you're really humble about it. YOu're not a bragger! No inside joke Julie.
I agree, and I love that about her lol.
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LOL!! No, I seriously think your one of the best writers on AC and you're really humble about it. YOu're not a bragger! No inside joke Julie.
Phew! Good to know - thanks, Erika, for the compliment and the reassurance!! LOL :)
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Also, Erika, I love your avatar!! That is my favorite Kevin line ever LOL. I have a different one with that same lyric.
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I love Drowning...and the fact Kevin's back.
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Me too! How did we ever survive without Kevin??? I mean, I was devastated after he left, but I got over it, and once Unbreakable came out, I was like, "Eh, they're fine without Kevin." But now that he's back, I realize once again just how much I've missed him the last six years!
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I talk about my stories sometimes on my twitter but I also probably do it more than I think I do.
People who know I write? Pretty much a lot of people do. I post when I update on FB because I have some readers there, I post on twitter and the forum. My dad knows I write. He knows I won the felix and was actually proud of me :) made me feel really good. Of course I get asked "when are you gonna do anything real with your writing?" but my best friend understands it is a hobby and reads it. She loves the site but doesn't leave reviews....she loves Julie's stories and reads on Karah's site...and evergreen is probably her favorite.
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Getting gifts from people? No I haven't had that happen. But I did send Saka-Steph One Direction magazines and Karah a autographed Nick poster from when I saw him in Feb.
My favorite author....I'm gonna say Mare. Because she is so good with the boys personalities and descriptions of what is going on....she really knows how to make a good story. I'm not even joking, I've read almost everything by her. She was one of the first that I read when I came to the site. I could probably go on all day about Mizpah.
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Getting gifts from people? No I haven't had that happen. But I did send Saka-Steph One Direction magazines and Karah a autographed Nick poster from when I saw him in Feb.
Ah true! I didn't even think of that as fan fiction related lol
I do tend to send friends copies of pics I take at shows because of the hottness that is Carter. Which is why I write Nick trash! LOL
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I've had a lot of people send me pictures of Llamas. :D
And my favorite AC author is Jen (evergreenwrite r). When she first asked me about writing a collab I almost plotzed, I was sooo excited... LOL I was like ??? 8-) lmao
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Here's a question... if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
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Here's a question... if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
Probably you or Jen (evergreenwrite r). I like both your writing styles, especially your humor.
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Probably you or Jen (evergreenwrite r). I like both your writing styles, especially your humor.
I would *SO* be up for that. LOL
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I would *SO* be up for that. LOL
OOOOOH! Llama sex!!!
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I've never collabed with anyone. I couldn't pick someone either, my writing style is so different from everyone else here.
However I'm working on a collab with someone, it's not bsb fic though. Who knows when we will write it, it's still being planned.
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OOOOOH! Llama sex!!!
:D RUN LLAMAS RUNN FOR YOUR GIRAFFE-SHEEP LIVES!!!! ???
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I've never collabed with anyone. I couldn't pick someone either, my writing style is so different from everyone else here.
It's really hard to write with someone whose style is completely different. I think that's why Jen and I collab well together, our styles are so similar that we've had people comment on our stories and, other than the two different POVs we do, they say they can't tell where we switch off. It's crazy.
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:D RUN LLAMAS RUNN FOR YOUR GIRAFFE-SHEEP LIVES!!!! ???
Your avatar and that quote just made me pee myself.
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Here's a question... if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
My answer would probably be the same as my answer for favorite author - Carrie/Jenna because she and I like the same things in a story. She is a nurse, and I like to watch shows about nurses, so together, we could write an epic medical drama. LOL
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Yeah, I haven't had the best luck with writing with people, which is why I'm so hesitant on doing it. I've only done it twice before and now Lisa and I are doing the Fearless series which seems to be going well. The main character I write is American, hers is British, so it kind of works out well LOL
But it's hard to write with someone, especially if you're like me and get on writing kicks.
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Your avatar and that quote just made me pee myself.
I can almost hear that cartoon "zzzziip!!" sound effect. There should be like dust puffing up as he runs away. LOL
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My answer would probably be the same as my answer for favorite author - Carrie/Jenna because she and I like the same things in a story. She is a nurse, and I like to watch shows about nurses, so together, we could write an epic medical drama. LOL
I'm picturing Grey's Anatomy, but with Nick in scrubs and I'm liking this idea very much... LOL
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I'm picturing Grey's Anatomy, but with Nick in scrubs and I'm liking this idea very much... LOL
Since McSteamy is leaving Grey's Anatomy, Nick on the show would help me keep watching. LOL
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Since McSteamy is leaving Grey's Anatomy, Nick on the show would help me keep watching. LOL
aHhh shh!! I haven't seen Season 8 yet!!! LOL We only have what's out on the DVDs because we don't have cable.
Owen's kinda my favorite, though. LOL :drools:
But yeah McSteamy's a close 2nd. :D
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aHhh shh!! I haven't seen Season 8 yet!!! LOL We only have what's out on the DVDs because we don't have cable.
Owen's kinda my favorite, though. LOL :drools:
Oh it has nothing to do with what happens in season 8. It was just released today that he's leaving towards the beginning of 9 lol
Ahhh I don't like Owen for some reason. Mark was my fave :(
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Ahhh I don't like Owen for some reason. Mark was my fave :(
I have a thing for guys in uniform. ;)
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I have a thing for guys in uniform. ;)
I have a thing for hot guys that like to be naked LMFAO!
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I'm picturing Grey's Anatomy, but with Nick in scrubs and I'm liking this idea very much... LOL
LOL That was the idea behind my first big collab, Code Blue!
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Nick would make a hot doctor. *coughcough* excuse me. Paging Dr. Carter, I have a cold ;)
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Nick would make a hot doctor. *coughcough* excuse me. Paging Dr. Carter, I have a cold ;)
I'd let him give me a physical exam. :crazy:
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It's really hard to write with someone whose style is completely different. I think that's why Jen and I collab well together, our styles are so similar that we've had people comment on our stories and, other than the two different POVs we do, they say they can't tell where we switch off. It's crazy.
Yeah, I haven't had the best luck with writing with people, which is why I'm so hesitant on doing it. I've only done it twice before and now Lisa and I are doing the Fearless series which seems to be going well. The main character I write is American, hers is British, so it kind of works out well LOL
But it's hard to write with someone, especially if you're like me and get on writing kicks.
Collaborating can definitely be hard. You have to try to mesh your style with someone else's and agree with someone else who may have different ideas. It can be a lot of drama, but it's also a lot of fun when it works out! You just have to find the right person. Rose and I work well together, and Hannah and Jen make a great team. Karah, you and Lisa seem to be having good luck with yours, and Lore and Steph have been successful with theirs. The right co-writer is key!
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Nick would make a hot doctor. *coughcough* excuse me. Paging Dr. Carter, I have a cold ;)
Yes, yes he would! I also enjoyed that pic of Brian in the scrub top the other day! ;D
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Collaborating can definitely be hard. You have to try to mesh your style with someone else's and agree with someone else who may have different ideas. It can be a lot of drama, but it's also a lot of fun when it works out! You just have to find the right person. Rose and I work well together, and Hannah and Jen make a great team. Karah, you and Lisa seem to be having good luck with yours, and Lore and Steph have been successful with theirs. The right co-writer is key!
The best part, the funniest part, I think anyway, is the other person surprising you by what they wrote and you have to play off of that. I never had that with my other co-writers really. Not sure why now that I think about it. lol
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The best part, the funniest part, I think anyway, is the other person surprising you by what they wrote and you have to play off of that. I never had that with my other co-writers really. Not sure why now that I think about it. lol
That's one thing I love about it; it's easy to stay inspired because you've always got that happening. Rose and I always plan things out so that we're not totally surprised by what the other person writes; we always know what each other's parts are going to be about, just not how what we've planned will get translated into words. I hardly ever get writer's block on collabs, and if I do, there's always someone else to bounce ideas around with until I get over it. It's great!
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The best part, the funniest part, I think anyway, is the other person surprising you by what they wrote and you have to play off of that. I never had that with my other co-writers really. Not sure why now that I think about it. lol
A lot of the most humorous parts of the collabs Jen & I write are the result of us writing the other one into the most effed up place we could possibly think up to leave off at.
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That's one thing I love about it; it's easy to stay inspired because you've always got that happening. Rose and I always plan things out so that we're not totally surprised by what the other person writes; we always know what each other's parts are going to be about, just not how what we've planned will get translated into words. I hardly ever get writer's block on collabs, and if I do, there's always someone else to bounce ideas around with until I get over it. It's great!
That's what we do... we plan out chapters with just a quick brief about what the main point of the scene is and then we just go from there. It's fun b/c we'll sit in Google Docs and we can watch the other one as they type out the scene lol Unless it's a sex scene and it's a little awkward to watch lol
Google Docs is amazing though to use when writing with someone. It's my new favorite thing lol
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A lot of the most humorous parts of the collabs Jen & I write are the result of us writing the other one into the most effed up place we could possibly think up to leave off at.
LMFAO We do that too!
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That's what we do... we plan out chapters with just a quick brief about what the main point of the scene is and then we just go from there. It's fun b/c we'll sit in Google Docs and we can watch the other one as they type out the scene lol Unless it's a sex scene and it's a little awkward to watch lol
Google Docs is amazing though to use when writing with someone. It's my new favorite thing lol
I didn't know you could do that in Google Docs. You can actually watch them type?? That's cool! I have a feeling Rose would fall asleep waiting for me to finish a scene, though; I constantly backspace to self-edit or stop to look something up, so I tend to write slowly LOL.
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I didn't know you could do that in Google Docs. You can actually watch them type?? That's cool! I have a feeling Rose would fall asleep waiting for me to finish a scene, though; I constantly backspace to self-edit or stop to look something up, so I tend to write slowly LOL.
Yep, check it out. There's also a side chat that you can use to chat at the same time so that you're not writing in the actual document. Seriously the best thing since sliced bread lol
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Yep, check it out. There's also a side chat that you can use to chat at the same time so that you're not writing in the actual document. Seriously the best thing since sliced bread lol
That sounds magical. :o
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Sweet!
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I really want to go read a story about Nick being a doctor now. And yes, Julie. Brian looked sexy in the scrubs!
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Also, Erika, I love your avatar!! That is my favorite Kevin line ever LOL. I have a different one with that same lyric.
Thank you! Yes, that is my favorite line too. I missed Kevin like crazy...I think that's why I didn't do the impossible to be around the boys all this time. lol. I'm already planning for when they do come out with something NOW that he's here.
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As far as collaborating. ..I've planned out collabs with other authors, but it never works out. Most I think could work we just never come up with anything. There was one that we actually started to write, but I' wasn't as descriptive as her, so when it came to sharing our chapters she always wanted to add to mine. It just wasn't going to work.
I would like to collab with someone...mayb e someday it will happen.
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Have you ever considered writing a story or a sequel to one of your existing stories and then decided against it and were later glad you decided not to write it? Share the most ridiculous idea you came up with, but never wrote! LOL
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Getting gifts from people? No I haven't had that happen. But I did send Saka-Steph One Direction magazines and Karah a autographed Nick poster from when I saw him in Feb.
My favorite author....I'm gonna say Mare. Because she is so good with the boys personalities and descriptions of what is going on....she really knows how to make a good story. I'm not even joking, I've read almost everything by her. She was one of the first that I read when I came to the site. I could probably go on all day about Mizpah.
Wow, thanks Tracy! I know you've told me that before but it's really nice to know :)
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I can't believe this thread is 5 pages long already. lol
As far as collars, I honestly don't see myself as a collab type writer. I'm a little too anal about updating etc... It would drive me nuts to have to wait around for chapters etc... it's just not for me lol I did it once though. You gotta try things at least once.
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I can't believe this thread is 5 pages long already. lol
As far as collars, I honestly don't see myself as a collab type writer. I'm a little too anal about updating etc... It would drive me nuts to have to wait around for chapters etc... it's just not for me lol I did it once though. You gotta try things at least once.
You definitely have to be on the same page as your co-writer about things like that. It doesn't work very well if one of you is really into it and the other isn't.
Rose and I tend to be on the same wavelength with our writing. When we started Song for the Undead, that was the main story for both of us, and we kept it going pretty consistently for over a year before we both got other story ideas and decided to explore those and make Undead more of a side project. It works well that way because when it's her turn to write an Undead chapter, I get to focus on my own stories without feeling guilty for leaving her hanging, and when it's my turn, she gets to do the same. But if either of us had nothing else to write and were just waiting for the other person to hurry up and get their parts done, it would not work out so well LOL.
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I have another question...man I kinda suck at answering, but I have a ton of questions. lol.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
There was one I had to read when judging the Felix Awards where after reading it, I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed it because it wasn't something I would have otherwise ever clicked on and that was Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon. I think the other one that pleasantly surprised me again because I had to judge it, was On the Rails. I mean it's everything I am classically not a fan of a historical AU romance lol but I was and still am hooked because of such incredible character development.
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As far as sequels, you know I don't think I've ever just toyed with the idea before. The only one I kind of considered writing a sequel on was What Lurks Around the Corner because there's so many other things that could happen in that one, but I changed my mind when I figured out I would have to be the one to come up with all those things lol
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You definitely have to be on the same page as your co-writer about things like that. It doesn't work very well if one of you is really into it and the other isn't.
Rose and I tend to be on the same wavelength with our writing. When we started Song for the Undead, that was the main story for both of us, and we kept it going pretty consistently for over a year before we both got other story ideas and decided to explore those and make Undead more of a side project. It works well that way because when it's her turn to write an Undead chapter, I get to focus on my own stories without feeling guilty for leaving her hanging, and when it's my turn, she gets to do the same. But if either of us had nothing else to write and were just waiting for the other person to hurry up and get their parts done, it would not work out so well LOL.
When I worked on mine I was working on others too but you know me and deadlines lol it was rough. I have a problem with that. lol I really do sometimes think I am in the autism spectrum because of some of my scheduling issues. I'm not even joking lol
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Hrm, collab partners besides who I've already worked with.....
I've lucked out with Steph because we typically share a brain when it comes to ideas for UT. We plan our our scenes and some of the detail but we don't really know how the other person will take some of the ideas. We've hit a lull in our writing for that so I need to go back and reread for the details to continue. 00Carter we have chats that are so random sometimes it's hard to believe anything gets done but from the randomness other ideas form.
I've tried to start collabs with other authors but we didn't get them off the ground. I am not sure who else I'd like to try to collab with.
I thought about a sequel to Amnesia...but it was so far fetched that it wasn't going to ever work. That was the only sequel I thought about but never started and I'm so glad I never wrote it.
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In fanfic who is your favorite author, and how has that person helped inspire your work?
One of my faves is Eboni, her work really inspired me back in the day where all I wrote were fantasy, supernatural, and sci-fi stories. She was the fanfic author I wanted to be like the most. because she wrote all these types of stories and pulled them off so well. I wanted to be that diverse so I tried my hand at everything. Still do really LOL.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
Hmm, I think one of Kelly's (Honey) stories. She wrote a lot of romance then, and I checked out "Not Your Average Cinderella Story" since it was featured. I knew she wrote well. I just wasn't sure if I'd like it. Turns out I absolutely loved it lol. I ended up loving her stories.
Here's a question... if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
This is a really hard question for me to answer LOL. Why? Because I've tried collaborating with SO many people! If I could work with anyone though, I'd probably say Mare. I know she is not a collaborating fan but I think an epic story would spring up between us if we did.
Though really, I'm lucky cause I've found a perfect collaborating partner. Julie and I have SO many ideas we're sitting on till our current one is finished. We're able to feed off each other's ideas and I feel like as writers we balance perfectly.
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I didn't know you could do that in Google Docs. You can actually watch them type?? That's cool! I have a feeling Rose would fall asleep waiting for me to finish a scene, though; I constantly backspace to self-edit or stop to look something up, so I tend to write slowly LOL.
LOL and then there's me who ends up staring at a doc half the time lmao. I feel like we'd focus fail SO badly.
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Have you ever considered writing a story or a sequel to one of your existing stories and then decided against it and were later glad you decided not to write it? Share the most ridiculous idea you came up with, but never wrote! LOL
I've only done one sequel and I was regretting it almost immediately LOL. I won't do sequels now unless I consider every aspect of it and outline it out completely.
Most ridiculous idea I have but never wrote?
I feel like the most ridiculous idea I have written...the grape story LOL.
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I didn't know you could do that in Google Docs. You can actually watch them type?? That's cool! I have a feeling Rose would fall asleep waiting for me to finish a scene, though; I constantly backspace to self-edit or stop to look something up, so I tend to write slowly LOL.
That's how I got worked on a group project in Miami lol
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I just finished RMTW and Rose always says in her replies to me that knowing I teared up is a huge compliment to her, to let her know she did her job right. What is the best compliment you have ever received on a story?
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You said one of my answers for me Lore lol. In an angsty story, when you hear you made someone cry, it means you moved them emotionally. So it's just a really big compliment.
The only one that's topped that, is when Julie and I had people tell us we should get Song For The Undead published. That they could see it as a book or even as a movie. To me that is HUGE, and flattering and just... I never know how to respond to it besides saying thank you 1000 times LOL.
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Haven't had the idea for a sequel for anything. I've been asked to do one for FYO but honestly I don't think there's anymore I could have done. However I did write a really angsty one shot that I was proud of. I love when Nick is angsting it up in a story.
Nicest compliment? I was told that someone decided to start reading fanfiction and I was the first she read. I've been told I have a way with dialogue. Comments like that are really nice but the BEST one was when Mare reviewed FYO and said she told other people to read it. I was really flattered because she's my favorite writer here :)
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Rose, not gonna lie but I've told you several times you've made me cry. You have a way with writing angst and people's emotions that just end up getting me in the same mindset as the characters. I'm not a big crier with movies but for some reason fanfics get me. I've cried at several people's stories.
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Haven't had the idea for a sequel for anything. I've been asked to do one for FYO but honestly I don't think there's anymore I could have done. However I did write a really angsty one shot that I was proud of. I love when Nick is angsting it up in a story.
Nicest compliment? I was told that someone decided to start reading fanfiction and I was the first she read. I've been told I have a way with dialogue. Comments like that are really nice but the BEST one was when Mare reviewed FYO and said she told other people to read it. I was really flattered because she's my favorite writer here :)
Thanks so much, Tracy & I'm glad I introduced your story to do many people. It was a great one!
Which leads me to the nicest compliment question. Whenever people say things like I'm their favorite author or I inspired them to write something really to me are the nicest things to hear. Also like what Rose said, when people tell me I should get so and so story published. It was actually feedback I got from an awards site that Mel's won a bunch of awards that inspired me to even try to get it published in the first place.
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I agree with everyone else's answers to the compliment question. The crying one is big for me because I write a lot of tearjerkers. If I can make you care enough to cry, I did my job. And hearing that you're someone's favorite fanfic author or that you inspired someone or that your story's good enough to be published is amazing!
I think my favorite compliments are the ones that fit how I've felt about reading my own favorite fanfics. When someone tells me they spent a whole day reading (or rereading) one of my stories in one sitting because they could not put it down, or that my story stuck with them long after they finished it, that reminds me of my own experiences reading certain fanfics that I put on a pedestal, and it's awesome to think I could have created that same experience for someone else and that they're holding a story I wrote in the same high regard.
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I love when I'm told that a reader couldn't stop reading my story because they were so engrossed. It is a huge compliment and one of my favorites.
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Wow, loads to catch up on again!
I would definitely be up for the fanfic secret Santa thing :)
Story I didn't think I'd enjoy as much as I did was Sinister Devotion, because at the time I'd never read anything like it. It was a great story.
Favourite writer. Hard to say because I have a few.
Writing with Lore is great, we share the same ideas for the story and are always happy with what the other one writes, it's like we share a brain for Unwinding Truth. I'm not sure who else I'd write with, I've never really thought of it.
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A story I was skeptical to read was On Nightingale Hill...but lord I got sucked into it just imagining poor Nick all alone in another world. Filiklepto needs come back and finish it. *sigh*
As for sequals I don't think I'm ever going to play around with sequals. I made a sequal to Sinister Devotion and got totally stuck and now my poor Jack is in limbo when I could have just left him for dead. lol.
Nicest compliment...
like a few of you has been the comments about getting published. That really makes me smile. Also when someone doesn't have an account on AC and they take the time to compliment me in an email...that's always nice!
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Wow, loads to catch up on again!
I would definitely be up for the fanfic secret Santa thing :)
Story I didn't think I'd enjoy as much as I did was Sinister Devotion, because at the time I'd never read anything like it. It was a great story.
Favourite writer. Hard to say because I have a few.
Writing with Lore is great, we share the same ideas for the story and are always happy with what the other one writes, it's like we share a brain for Unwinding Truth. I'm not sure who else I'd write with, I've never really thought of it.
Thanks for giving Jack a chance, Steph! ;D
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A story I was skeptical to read was On Nightingale Hill...but lord I got sucked into it just imagining poor Nick all alone in another world. Filiklepto needs come back and finish it. *sigh*
Ooh, that is one of mine too! I'm not much of a fantasy fan, but that one sucked me right in. She really needs to finish it!
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Thanks for giving Jack a chance, Steph! ;D
You know I love Jack!!
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I would love to see On Nightingale Hill finished too :)
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Not really a question, but give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
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Not really a question, but give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
Guilty Roads was inspired by The Lion King.
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^ that is pretty random, how did we go from Lion King to the Amish? lol
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^ that is pretty random, how did we go from Lion King to the Amish? lol
LOL Really, it came from your favorite story Faceless and how I swear it was based on Beauty and the Beast, even though the author said it wasn't. I wondered if I could take a Disney movie and turn it into a fanfic idea, and that is how I manufactured the idea of Guilty Roads. The Amish = Timon and Pumbaa. "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hakuna Matata!"
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Oh I get it. Kevin getting hurt and Nick thinks it's his fault so he runs away like Simba did! That's what I got from it.
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Oh I get it. Kevin getting hurt and Nick thinks it's his fault so he runs away like Simba did! That's what I got from it.
Yep, exactly. :)
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That's actually really clever. I love Guilty Roads. I remember clicking on it because I liked the banner and it sounded interesting lol
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Thanks! I like it too; I just get stuck on it easily because I feel like I'm always trying to fill plot holes LOL. I guess that's what happens when you force an idea instead of just waiting for inspiration to strike.
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So what are your random facts?
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Not nearly as cool as Julie's GR/LK revelation but Darkness of Vampires was not originally my story.
No I did not steal it, the girl who was writing it sent it to me and told me she was not wanting to write it anymore because she wasn't inspired. She told me if I wanted I could have it, so I rewrote the first few chapters that she had to be in my voice and went from there. She was a huge fan of what I did with it.
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LOL Really, it came from your favorite story Faceless and how I swear it was based on Beauty and the Beast, even though the author said it wasn't. I wondered if I could take a Disney movie and turn it into a fanfic idea, and that is how I manufactured the idea of Guilty Roads. The Amish = Timon and Pumbaa. "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hakuna Matata!"
Random non fanfic fact. I have never seen the Lion King from start to finish
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I had one but I keep talking about that story and it's probably being annoying.
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Not nearly as cool as Julie's GR/LK revelation but Darkness of Vampires was not originally my story.
No I did not steal it, the girl who was writing it sent it to me and told me she was not wanting to write it anymore because she wasn't inspired. She told me if I wanted I could have it, so I rewrote the first few chapters that she had to be in my voice and went from there. She was a huge fan of what I did with it.
That's interesting. Do you enjoy writing on it as much as you would have if it had been your own creation originally?
Has anyone else ever done that, taken over a story for someone else?
I sort of did that once; I ended up co-writing the rest of a story with a friend because it was the only way I could get her to finish it. That was a long time ago; I don't know if I could do that now, unless it was with a story I really loved and was desperate to see finished, but even then, there are very few stories I could see myself doing justice. It'd probably have to be a medical drama, which this one was. It was an okay experience, but I don't really consider that to be one of "my" stories because I didn't feel that sense of ownership over it. It's not listed on the My Stories page of my site, but under Hosted Stories instead.
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Random non fanfic fact. I have never seen the Lion King from start to finish
Mare! I'm shocked! That is sad! Do you not like Disney movies or just didn't care for that one? Or just have never really sat down and watched it? If it's the last one, you need to fix that right away! Before your OC DVD comes! LOL
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I had one but I keep talking about that story and it's probably being annoying.
LOL That's kind of the point of this thread and that question!
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That's interesting. Do you enjoy writing on it as much as you would have if it had been your own creation originally?
I actually did enjoy writing it. When I was rewriting the first chapters I just kind of took over and went my own direction with it. She only requested April and May stay the character's names and I saw no reason to change them. The story took on a life of it's own when I started writing them so it was almost like I had started it myself anyway.
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Mare! I'm shocked! That is sad! Do you not like Disney movies or just didn't care for that one? Or just have never really sat down and watched it? If it's the last one, you need to fix that right away! Before your OC DVD comes! LOL
I usually love Disney movies but besides the totally epic beginning, the rest never seems to hold my attention. I don't really like any of the songs. I felt the same way about Hercules. I think those are the only two newer Disney films I wasn't crazy about.
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I usually love Disney movies but besides the totally epic beginning, the rest never seems to hold my attention. I don't really like any of the songs. I felt the same way about Hercules. I think those are the only two newer Disney films I wasn't crazy about.
I like some of the songs from both movies but Lion King is really not my favorite and Hercules bugs me because the mythology is SOOO wrong. I know it's a kids movie but ... ugh....
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I actually can't think if any random facts lol I'm sure something will pop in my head.
I have never taken over someone's story before but have wanted to on more than one occasion lol
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I usually love Disney movies but besides the totally epic beginning, the rest never seems to hold my attention. I don't really like any of the songs. I felt the same way about Hercules. I think those are the only two newer Disney films I wasn't crazy about.
Aww. Lion King is one of my favorites. I hate Hercules, though. I didn't like any of the Disney movies after Pocahontas (of the ones I've seen), until some of the Pixar stuff, mainly Finding Nemo. But that may just have something to do with growing up, too. My favorites are the ones that came out when I was a kid - The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King - but I love the classics too. The newer ones just don't compare.
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I like some of the songs from both movies but Lion King is really not my favorite and Hercules bugs me because the mythology is SOOO wrong. I know it's a kids movie but ... ugh....
yeah that was a bit annoying too. This may sound odd but the acting was pretty bad in Hercules lol
My all time favorite besides Beauty & the Beast is Hunchback of Notre Dame I LOVE the music in that one!!
And Prince of Egypt but that's not even a Disney film oh & Anastasia!! Okay way off topic now lol
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Aww. Lion King is one of my favorites. I hate Hercules, though. I didn't like any of the Disney movies after Pocahontas (of the ones I've seen), until some of the Pixar stuff, mainly Finding Nemo. But that may just have something to do with growing up, too. My favorites are the ones that came out when I was a kid - The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King - but I love the classics too. The newer ones just don't compare.
What I hate about the newer newer ones are the lack of really great songs.
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What I hate about the newer newer ones are the lack of really great songs.
Yeah, they kind of abandoned the whole musical thing, which is too bad. The music is a big part of what made the ones from our era so great!
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Yeah, they kind of abandoned the whole musical thing, which is too bad. The music is a big part of what made the ones from our era so great!
What? I love Tangled and Princess and the Frog.... they are new and they have music...
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What? I love Tangled and Princess and the Frog.... they are new and they have music...
I know they were trying to move back in that direction with those two, which was nice. I mean all the ones in between the 90s movies and those.
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They did have music but not as awesome although I take that back about Tangled since you know... One of my friends wrote some of the music on that one lol sorry Kevin
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I know they were trying to move back in that direction with those two, which was nice. I mean all the ones in between the 90s movies and those.
yes there were several years where there was no songs that the cast sang though how can you deny the genius of "Put that thing back where it came from" in Monsters, Inc. LOL can I hastag in the forum?? #geek
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I think I'm the only one in the world who is not a big fan of most of the Disney Pixar movies. I love Finding Nemo, but while the other ones that I've seen were cute, I've never had the urge to watch them more than once. I'm definitely a classic Disney girl!
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have a child Julie, you won't have a lot of choice in watching animated movies over and over and over and over and over again.... I can quote some movies for you perfectly I've seen/heard them so many times.
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LOL I bet! I'm sure I still start seeing more of them more often as my nephew gets older. He's not quite two yet, so still a little young for movies.
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I kind of feel the same way with the Pixar movies. I liked a lot of them but I don't think I have watched any more than once lol
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Playing the catch-up game~
In fanfic who is your favorite author, and how has that person helped inspire your work?
I have a lot of different favourites, because everyone writes different things that I tend to like. I like to think I draw a little inspiration from everyone in different ways, to be honest. Mare definitely inspired me to write more stories about the boys themselves and to branch out from my Nick romance roots, which is probably the biggest step my writing has taken, so I'll go with her. Plus, there are a lot of her stories I re-read often.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
Hmmm... well way back when, all of my friends were really into that I Need You Tonight story. I tried a few times to read the first chapter but wasn't so into it. Then when I finally sat down and read the whole thing, I fell in love with it. I have all of it saved and have re-read it recently. It had a really slow start though and I guess that's why I couldn't get into at first. On my re-reads I usually skip the first couple of chapters because they're boring.
if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
Honestly my writing is so sporadic I don't know that anyone would want to collab with me! I jump around scenes too much and get bored with stories and abandon them for long periods of time for collaborating to work for me, I think.
Have you ever considered writing a story or a sequel to one of your existing stories and then decided against it and were later glad you decided not to write it? Share the most ridiculous idea you came up with, but never wrote! LOL
Yes! I was going to write a third story about Nick and Ashleigh (after In Pieces and My Happy Ending) about Nick's relationship with his mom, and Ashleigh's mom dying and them coming to terms with the fact that their son died. Yeah.. I started it but then I decided I didn't want to write it so I deleted it. Too much death in that story lol
Uhh I was also going to have two more stories after The Best of Both Worlds where Nick and Dani break-up and have a bunch of drama, and then Dani goes out with Brian and Nick tries to win her back and there's a ton of drama... but again, decided not to write them. Because ridic. Although because of the way I tend to jump around I do have a random chapter from one of those stories written where Nick bitches Dani out for being indecisive... and then tries to sleep with her lol.
What is the best compliment you have ever received on a story?
This girl actually left a comment on Nick's Dirty Kicks recently and said she wanted to translate the story to put on her Spanish BSB fiction site (with credit to me, of course) that was pretty cool!
give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
I got the idea for February Stars from the fact that I was doing data entry at work, and someone had that as part of their email address. I remember thinking it was pretty, and that I wanted to use it for something. So I decided to use it as a title for a one shot and built a story around it.
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Author I've been skeptical to check out? Probably Tri. I don't really read romance but I saw the banner for Time Has a Way and decided to click on it. I've really enjoyed that story and Merry Maid...Merry Maid was somewhat of a visual. I've also read some of Karah's stories and I enjoyed them as well. I'm starting to like romance more.
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I was skeptical of reading It Stays With You, I thought it might freak me out. Although it did, I really enjoyed it. At times i felt like I was Brian going :crazy:
I've never taken over anyone's story. There are some that I wouldn't mind taking over though. lol.
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Wow, thanks a lot, Steph! That means a lot to me! I'm really glad you decided to branch out because you write the boys really well. You know how I feel about Running Up That Hill. :)
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I was skeptical of reading It Stays With You, I thought it might freak me out. Although it did, I really enjoyed it. At times i felt like I was Brian going :crazy:
I've never taken over anyone's story. There are some that I wouldn't mind taking over though. lol.
Thanks for giving It Stays a try. I know it's a bit dark lol I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
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Not really a question, but give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
Walked Out Of My Dreams is my fictional non-romance interpretation of Unmistakable.
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I've never taken over someone's story. I've tried to continue stories after collaborators ditched me, but even that tends to be unsuccessful lol. I don't think I could. I don't know, it would have to feel like it was mine.
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Walked Out Of My Dreams is my fictional non-romance interpretation of Unmistakable.
What is Unmistakable? I don't think I've heard of that one.
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What is Unmistakable? I don't think I've heard of that one.
You don't know the song? LOL. It's on Unbreakable.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/backstreetboys/unmistakable.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ErbdHnF_NY
I just really liked the idea of knowing you're waiting for someone out there and having no idea who it is. So of course my interpretation of that is having Nick try to find a missing Brian who remembers nothing of his old life, and convinced himself he's someone else after I kill off Leighanne lol. Brian's trying to remember things, but it's only in dreams. And asking himself how he can know things he's never done... it's my play on the song lol.
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Oh, the song lmao I thought it was a movie or story or something! *walks out of thread naked*
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LMFAO awww Mare, I still love you!
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Uh oh, get the shock collar!
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lol I totally need the shock collar :(
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I guess the weirdest fact about any of my stories is that when I originally storyboarded the first Saving the Day for Blondes, Kevin was supposed to turn out to be a mobster and that only changed because when I got him and Nick down by the river, I just couldn't figure out how to twist the story enough to make that believable. LOL
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Author I've been skeptical to check out? Probably Tri. I don't really read romance but I saw the banner for Time Has a Way and decided to click on it. I've really enjoyed that story and Merry Maid...Merry Maid was somewhat of a visual. I've also read some of Karah's stories and I enjoyed them as well. I'm starting to like romance more.
Aww thank you dahling!
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After a day of getting offered a new job in a new city four hours away and then being written up at work, I thought I'd missed a lot.
Not really a question, but give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
--- I wrote an AU once where Nick works at a fashion house in Miami and falls in love with a nun. Hm, I'm trying to think... Nick as a teenage father. LOL
And I, too, have never seen The Lion King, nor do I have the desire to do so. "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" does not make me feel the love. LOL
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I love Disney movies. But I've never seen Finding Nemo all the way through *hides*
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Random fact...Save A Prayer kind of came from the Duran Duran song of the same name. In the video to it they are in the jungle/somewhere tropical and I thought it would be great to stick the boys somewhere like that, but worse, lol.
I'm not sure I've seen The Lion King all the way through either, it might be one of those I spaced out in. My favourite Disney films have always been Beauty & The Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Damn. I love the music in The Hunchback. I've film the live show of Beauty & The Beast twice. Out of the newer Disney films I loved Princess & The Frog. Some of them I know word for word because I've had to watch them over and over (like Toy Story).
*goes back to see what the other questions were*
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I LOVE that video and I Love Duran Duran lol
I finally remembered some random facts!
* In the original version of Mel's Tree before my computer crashed and I started all over again, the entire story was told from Mel's POV. She wasn't the one who dies in the OF. It was actually the dad who kills himself. Other random fact for this one, AJ's character was a girl lol When I decided to go fanfic on it, Mel's character morphed into Howie's, AJ became a man and Mel kicked the bucket! lmao
*I originally had Nick die at the end of Mizpah but changed my mind lol
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Holy crap I just had to catch up on like 7 pages.
I don't know if I have any really random facts. OH, here's one.
I plotted out the idea of Satin and Silk while doing a cancer fundraiser 13K run. I was trying to keep my mind off the fact that I was likely inches away from death and I was still using a discman at the time so needless to say I had no music to keep me company so I started at the prologue and mentally pictured the entire story. By the time I got to the last chapter in my head I was finished.
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Those are interesting facts!
After showering, walking is my favorite way to work on story plots too. (Walking, not running LOL.)
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Walking is definitely one of my favourite ways to plot out stories too! Although, in my 40 minute long walk to work every morning, I find I'll get an idea... annnd then I have to work for the whole day. lol
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Well in the original version of FYO I had Valerie drugging Nick to the point he didn't know what was going on and she was going through with her plan to marry him. He had a vivid dream about being pushed into a coffin and buried alive when Brian finds him passed out on the floor, suffering from a drug overdose. Valerie finds out that Brian knows what she's doing...ties him and Kevin up and sets the house on fire.
The original version was totally insane.
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I am not a fan of walking. I am a fan of napping and sitting. lmao another random fact about me, i'm really a sloth! shhh! Don't tell anyone!!
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Well in the original version of FYO I had Valerie drugging Nick to the point he didn't know what was going on and she was going through with her plan to marry him. He had a vivid dream about being pushed into a coffin and buried alive when Brian finds him passed out on the floor, suffering from a drug overdose. Valerie finds out that Brian knows what she's doing...ties him and Kevin up and sets the house on fire.
The original version was totally insane.
Wow! Glad you changed your mind on that one lol
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My favorite way to come up with plots (this is kinda bad actually lol...) is usually when I'm not paying attention in class. I don't know why but I swear as soon as I'm done taking notes I end up flipping a few pages in my notebook and end up jotting down ideas.
At least I look busy lol. I'm that student who can take notes or hear a lecture and have it stick. So despite my attention span failing, I still get As no problem at least, otherwise this would get me in trouble LOL.
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I usually come up with ideas while listening to music. That's why a lot of my stories are named after songs (I tend to stay away from BSB titles.... I think that's just cheesy, except for "My Confession" but that's because that song had a big part in the story and in a way, the story as a whole was the main character's 'confession').
Like right now... "She's Not You" was inspired by a mixture of Chris Brown's "She Ain't You" and Eric Church's "Springsteen."
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Mind you, that version I had written back in high school. I'm so glad I waited to show that story to anyone, and revamped it completely. The way it came out is much better.
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I'm glad I didn't know what fan fiction was when I was in high school. Hell I didn't like BSB until a month before I graduated. God only knows what the crap I would have written would be lol
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I was a mess in high school lol. I hardly talked to anyone. So this is the stuff my mind came up with. I think I discovered fanfic by searching random BSB stuff online and came across it through there.
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I come up with story ideas when I'm in the shower ... sometimes when I'm watching TV or a bad movie ... having conversations with friends ... I should walk that would probably be a good place too.
The shower is normally where I figure out plot points I'm stuck on.
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I come up with ideas while working, or late at night when I'm trying to get myself to sleep. Music inspires me too, or movies.
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I usually come up with my ideas right before I go to sleep. If I remember it when I wake up, it's a keeper usually. lol
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^ I do that too but I always tell myself I'll remember the next day and have YET to learn my lesson. :(
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Aww, maybe that just means they weren't epic enough? lol
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Again, i'm at a loss for a question. I've been sitting here for the last thirty minues staring at the screen and trying to come up with something. Yeah, it's been that kind of productive day. LOL
So, if anyone has anything?
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
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I come up with story ideas when I'm in the shower ... sometimes when I'm watching TV or a bad movie ... having conversations with friends ... I should walk that would probably be a good place too.
The shower is normally where I figure out plot points I'm stuck on.
Same here! If I'm really stuck on a part and just need to think, I'll go take a shower. I do some of my best thinking in the shower, and it's easier to jump out in a flood of inspiration and go write something down than it is when I'm 2 miles away in the middle of a walk LOL.
Someone on my forum once suggested bathtub crayons, so I got a set, and now if I have a really good idea or a line that sounds just perfect in my head, I can write it down on the shower wall so I don't forget it by the time I get out. They are awesome, BUT they do not wipe off as easily as they should, for being something meant for little kids. I've used cleaner with bleach, and I can STILL see traces of various fanfic parts written on my shower wall LOL. Oops.
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
I sometimes use people I know if I think they'd be a suitable character for what I'm writing. As for how much real life I put in, in the story Ten Things she goes to Las Vegas and I've been there (but nothing like the story happened!)
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I tend to base people off of someone I know in real life and exaggerate their personality. As I've mentioned before, Chris in Running Up That Hill is a guy that I actually know. And he's actually douchey like that lol. I call him my real life Nick Carter haha.
I think in the case of my original female characters, a lot of my own personality tends to go into them, but maybe different facets of it for different characters.
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
I sometimes base minor characters on people I know, whether in real life or online. Sometimes it's positive, and sometimes it's negative, but for better or worse, there are plenty of real "characters" out there who are way more interesting than anyone I could come up with on my own LOL.
That said, my original main characters are mostly original. With them, I enjoy taking the time to create them from scratch and develop their personalities and back stories and all of that. There is always a little of me in them, and I use different pieces of me for different characters and combine that with original traits, usually the kind of qualities I admire in other people and flaws that fit the character.
I rarely base whole storylines around my own real life experiences, mostly just because I don't have many experiences that I find interesting enough to write a fanfic about. But I do incorporate my own experiences when they fit. For example, I've written several characters who are teachers, because that's something I know well, and I've based settings on real places that I've been to. I do think those personal touches add a dimension of believability to a story, but my goal is always to do enough research that I can fool someone into thinking I've been somewhere or done something that I really haven't LOL.
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
Some might think it's Mary Sue, but I tend to try to put something of myself in every female character I do. Whether it's something small like her job (I had one that was a journalist, one a photographer.. .), or something as little as the fact that she's dealt with depression or has nothing to do with her sperm donor. Or fear of commitment, etc.
Other than that, I try to base the characters on what I think would help the storyline. I don't really base the characters after anybody I know for the most part because I've done that in the past. One of my ex best-friends wanted a 'character' in a story, so when I did that and she didn't like the storyline her 'character' was involved in, she got pissed.
As for real life experiences, I used to when I was younger and writing. My first real story I wrote about some real things that happened to me, as well as another one I wrote later on. It kind of helps get through things, at least it did for me.
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
I nevr fully base my characters on any one person but a compilation of different people. Like most of you have said, I do put a lot of my traits and personality in most of my original characters but never one hundred percent. All my original characters generally come in the form of villians, but my females really are modeled off of friends mostly.
I tend to use a fair share of my real life in my stories. I consider it a good form of therapy. Of course I mix it with enough fiction that it doesn't read that way. I do tend to place my characters in surroundings which are familiar to me, geography wise and like Julie, I do enjoy making them teachers and musicians but hey the musican part is pretty easy lol
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How do you come up with your original, non BSB characters? Are they inspired by anyone in your life positively? How much of your real life experiences go into your writing?
Usually I take bits of myself and those I know. I never put a whole lot of myself into my original characters, usually just aspects and them combine them with people I know in real life. If anything, I put the most of myself into Nick LOL. Gender doesn't matter, they get their traits either way. Obviously the therapist in RMTW was Julie lol. Grace, in Divine Intervention is actually based on my cousin...which amuses me cause he's a guy and she's a girl lol. But it just works.
My experiences don't usually go into my writing. My emotions will, if I'm upset you might be able to tell with what I write in a chapter. But my experiences don't. I write what I don't know, in terms of my own life. I write subjects I'm comfortable with (like Psych disorders, for example). And if I don't know it, I research the hell out of it and write it like I have dealt with it myself.
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I will say Aaron in RMTW was based heavily on one of my brothers with some real life Aaron douchiness mixed in. That was actually very therapeutic cause at the time my brother was causing a lot of trouble and putting my parents through hell with the choices he made. They tried to help him again and again... like Nick did in the story. The biggest difference though is that Aaron died, which hasn't happened to my brother yet.
I think that's the most of my own life issues I put into a story.
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I use traits of people I know in real life including myself for original characters.
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I thought this would be fun, is there any question you'd like to ask any of the authors who usually participate in this thread? I mean you could ask anyone I guess but if they don't usually respond there's a chance they won't see this or answer, but maybe if they see their name, it might spark them to answer what you have to ask. Of course try to keep it mostly fanfic or writing related.
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RMTW reminded me of a lot of things....what I went through watching my grandmother go through Alzheimer's disease...and Aaron reminded me of my sister a lot. It's not a secret my sister is a heroin addict, so I identified with the story a lot. It really touched me.
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I need time to think of a question lol.
And thanks Tracy :)
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My original characters aren't really based off anyone. I might think "hey it'd be funny if this person had blahblahblah trait" and then try to think of someone - that I know or a movie or a tv show character - who had similar traits, but I never really base the character off that person. For example, Charlie in Bodyguard was meant to be a kind of kick ass personality and I was like "who do I know thats kinda kick ass like that?" and all I could think of was Julilly on cruise with that freakin' Spanish chick and the "I'LL TAKE HER OUT IF YOU WANT ME TO!" lmao... So I laughed about that, then thought of a few other tough chicks in movies and TV shows (like Penny beating up the guy that stole Sheldon's World of Warcraft character's stuff! hahaha). Then I started going through this book of character traits I have and the psychology and started writing a backstory for the character that was completely original. I will put small bits of me into the characters but I tend to put those bits into ALL the characters, including the Boys. For example, if I was to say any character in Something Beautiful was me, it would be Nick because of the history with the story and my mom and the point of view I had going into the Leukemia experience. Which is why the story is from Nick's POV in the OF version of it.
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I have a question for Karah.
You said you only write one story at a time, and found it difficult to even work on your collab with Lisa cause you can't work on two at once. What do you do when you get a new idea while you're in the middle of working on something else? Do you just table it for later, or do you find you don't get new ideas until the main story you're working on is nearly complete.
Seriously please shed some light lol because the way that you are able to give one story your complete focus and stick with it until the end is something I envy so much.
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I have a question for Karah.
You said you only write one story at a time, and found it difficult to even work on your collab with Lisa cause you can't work on two at once. What do you do when you get a new idea while you're in the middle of working on something else? Do you just table it for later, or do you find you don't get new ideas until the main story you're working on is nearly complete.
Seriously please shed some light lol because the way that you are able to give one story your complete focus and stick with it until the end is something I envy so much.
I feel special! LOL!
Honestly, I don't have any problem with the collab story because I'm so into it, it's the other story that I've had problems with. Since we started the first Fearless story, Fearless, I've started two solo stories, the final Nick and Harley story, which was only like 15 chapters but took about 3 1/2 months actually finish.
The main reason I like to focus on just one story is because I like to get into the character(s)' heads that I'm writing about. Plus, I know I have a very short attention span. That's the main reason. That's why doing two at once is hard for me.
I typically try to just put everything else out of my mind while I'm focusing on that one story. If I get an idea, I'll type it out in my notepad on my iPhone where I keep a list of songs that give me ideas or ideas in general. Or I'll start a file, type out what I have in my head and I just sit on it. I'm just tough on myself with it, is how I usually focus on one story.
Right now it's been easier to write on "She's Not You," my solo story, because Lisa's been busy so we haven't done much writing on our series lately. I'm sure I'll get in a funk on SNY once we do go back to writing lol
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Yay, someone finally asked a question!
Here's another question:
As a reader, do you tend to wait until a fanfic is done before you read it, read multiple chapters at once, or one chapter at a time?
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Yay, someone finally asked a question!
Here's another question:
As a reader, do you tend to wait until a fanfic is done before you read it, read multiple chapters at once, or one chapter at a time?
I typically follow stories as they're being written, so I read them one chapter at a time whenever the author updates. If the story is already done when I start it, though, I read it the same way I read any book, which means I'll read until I lose interest, run out of time, or feel the urge to stop reading and do something else. There is nothing better than getting so sucked into a story that I just keep clicking on the next chapter to read on. I don't get that experience with fanfic very often anymore because most of the stories I read are in-progress. Maybe I should just wait and read them when they're finished, but from the writer side of things, I know it's more fun to get feedback while the story's in progress, so I like to be one of those reviewers for my favorite authors.
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I usually read stories as they are being posted, so one chapter at a time. If someone recommends a completed story, then I do the same as Julie and read it like I would a book, clicking on next and leaving reviews every few chapters.
Sometimes I've waited for a story to be completed if the writer is one of those people who just abandons the story and vanishes, as I hate getting sucked in to stories only to be left hanging.
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I tend to read one chapter at a time for fanfics and books. I very rarely read something start to finish in one sitting. Maybe I'll do a few chapters at one time but my attention span usually doesn't allow me to just sit and read all day long. I wish I could do that. lol sitting and reading at the computer doesn't usually help either. I like to read stories as they are in progress as well. But like Steph said, if it's someone who is kind of slack ish when it comes to updating I would probably wait until its finished.
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I honestly make an effort to try and read things chapter by chapter, but sometimes I get so far behind I end up just waiting until it's finished. I do that with TV shows too, it's hard for me to watch week to week, and then I don't feel like I want to get caught up because I'll get caught up with no resolve since it's still in progress and...yeah. It probably comes from when I used to watch anime all the time, series would just come out in full and I'd marathon the entire thing. I also have a horrible memory for TV/books so unless I read it all at once I forget what's already happened haha.
Yeah, long story short I start out following updates... and eventually fall off and end up reading things when they're done.
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I get that way with TV shows sometimes too. I try to follow too many and end up having to DVR some of them, and then I don't have time to watch everythign on my DVR, so it gets full and I have to delete some of them, and then I fall behind on shows. Sometimes I catch up, and sometimes I just give them up LOL.
With fanfic, it's the same way - if I'm following too many stories that are frequently updated and don't have time to read all the updates, I will let some of them go. Or there are some that I've just decided it will be better to wait until they're done because they're only updated once in a blue moon, and it's too hard to keep track of what's going on in between updates.
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I have a question for Saka-Steph, Mare, Rose, and anyone else who writes stories that alternate between all five guys' POVs:
When you balance the five POVs that way, do you find that some of the guys are harder to write than others? If so, which are the hardest for you and why? Do you think the ease or difficulty of writing the guys has to do more with how well you like them or how well you can relate to them?
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Balancing the points of view is really rough and I find that with Running Up That Hill I try to tie each point of view together to tell a complete view of the day. So that could mean all the guys are together and the POV switches with the flow of time, or they're all separated and focusing on one thing and describing their take on it. I find it is really difficult to balance because especially with that story I'm bound by each day being a chapter, and so not everyone is going to have an exciting day all the time.
I do find that I have the most trouble writing Brian and Kevin, and it's probably because I can't really relate to them. At that point they have the more stable lives, and I can definitely relate more to the drama of Nick's life, and Howie being the concerned friend than I can Kevin being the one who watches over everyone or Brian being the family man.
And of course I have definitely had the most practice writing Nick, so that helps too.
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Writing in five POV's can be really difficult but who is the hardest for me anyway, depends on the subject matter I'm dealing with at the time. Generally I have no problem writing as Nick or Kevin. They just both come natural to me in almost every situation or setting.
When it comes to AJ, I tend to have the initial problem with where I want him to go, but once I start I'm usually okay. I find myself giving him the more comedic parts of a story for some reason. I don't particularly enjoy emo AJ too much and for me, I have a hard time writing him that way. He slowly starts to morph into Nick so when I can, I avoid it.
I had a hard time with Howie in Why I'd Do it All Again, because in that one he was usually the business guy, always trying to keep them on track that way and it was hard for me to channel that side of him. Older stories where he just did what Howie does best, being the go to guy that will listen without judging, it was much easier to write him. I tend to have Howie in a scene with Kevin or Nick because once again, I love their reactions to one another and it's easy for me to play off of their relationship.
Brian out of them all is the hardest for me because like Steph mentioned in her reply, he's the hardest for me to relate to. I don't get a lot of what Brian does in real life so sometimes it's hard to take and try to become him. It's not how I feel about him personally because I do like him, I don't LOVE him like I do all the others though so it is hard for me to portray him as a supportive friend to Nick for instance when in reality I don't feel like that's really been the case. If that makes sense? Or thatt he is in love with Leighanne because that seems inconceivable to me. LOL
As far as balancing them all out, that can be rough as well. In a story like Why, it was easier because all five of them usually shared one chapter and to me that's actually a lot easier than something like Living at the Top or Long Road Home where they each had to stand alone in their own chapters. When writing them all in one chapter, I try my best to be aware of word counts and try to make sure they have equal time. If I didn't do that, I could see Kevin and Nick dominating each chapter. When it comes to the single chapters, I tried to do that as well, although in this latest one, I'm not caring as much lmao
Wow, that was a long reply! Hope it answered your question though!
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Brian out of them all is the hardest for me because like Steph mentioned in her reply, he's the hardest for me to relate to. I don't get a lot of what Brian does in real life so sometimes it's hard to take and try to become him. It's not how I feel about him personally because I do like him, I don't LOVE him like I do all the others though so it is hard for me to portray him as a supportive friend to Nick for instance when in reality I don't feel like that's really been the case. If that makes sense? Or thatt he is in love with Leighanne because that seems inconceivable to me. LOL
Everything you said here about Brian is exactly how I feel about him and exactly why I find it so hard to write about him. It's really hard for me to portray this time in Brian and Leighanne's marriage because to be thinking of starting a family and being basically newlyweds is just something that I do not get at all when it comes to those two. Though I've actually found that reading Pengi's Borrowed Time has really helped me out. Through that story I really have begun to understand that Brian and Leighanne relationsip, and the reasons why he loves her so much. It helps that that story is so realistic so even though I'm not so into Brian and Leighanne as a couple in real life, I do dig them in that story a lot. It helps.
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I'm pretty sure my opinion wouldn't change either way lol but I see what you are saying though. Sometimes reading things differently from how you see them can help with the point of view.
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Thanks for the answers, guys! I'm not sure I've ever written a story that alternates between all five POVs that way, so I was just wondering. The closest I've come is Song for the Undead, but that's a little different, being AU.
Mare, I so agree with what you said about AJ and find myself writing him the same way. He's usually the comic relief or the one who has the balls to say what no one else will. I see dark AJ going to very dark places that I'm not so comfortable writing, so I prefer to keep him light and let him lighten the mood.
And Steph, I liked what you said about Borrowed Time helping you understand Brian and Leighanne's relationship. I love the way Hannah has written that relationship. Leighanne tends to be villainized or made fun of in stories, so it's nice to see her written as the woman who loved Brian so much, she was willing to bargain her own future with him to get him to fight for his. And even if you find them annoying, you've done a nice job writing them as newlyweds too.
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One of my weaknesses is 1st person POV. I've been improving though through doing the challenges and trying different boys in each scenario. I think that has helped me a lot. Nick is the one I relate to, we've had similar experiences in regards to family. So for me it is very easy to put myself in his mind. AJ is the only one I haven't tried writing because I cannot relate to him at all, same for Kevin.
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I swear I'm gonna answer this as soon as I get home. I don't have the patience to try and give a in depth response on my phone lol.
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I have a general question...
What is your favorite story you've written and read of each of the guys?
AJ:
Nick:
Kevin:
Brian:
Howie:
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My favorites for each guy...
AJ:
read - Nowhere to Run (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/nowhere.html)
wrote - The World Will Know Your Name (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8970)
Nick:
read - Cover Me With Dreams (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9184)
wrote - Curtain Call (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10159)
Kevin:
read - The Importance of Fly Fishing (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=3655)
wrote - Guilty Roads (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10116) (I like my Kevin comatose LOL. Really, I just don't write Kevin stories!)
Brian:
read - Mind Games (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/mindgames.html)
wrote - Secrets of the Heart (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9283)
Howie:
read - He Had it Coming (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10366)
wrote - 00Carter (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9085)
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I have figured out how to answer these long questions from my Ipod! Write an email on my laptop, mail it to myself check my email from my Ipod and then copy and paste it to the forum! LOL what a huge pain in the ass!
Anyway, thanks for the question Erika, because I didn't have one in mind for today.
Favorite stories I've written and read about each of the BSB's
AJ: Documentaries by Izzy <-- this is a short story but I loved it! AJ takes over making a documentary Nick was working on after he gets into a car 'accident.' Izzy was one of those writers who was able to write an emo AJ without going way over the top. I think her AJ is one of my favorite AJ's.
As far as one I've written, I don't believe I've ever really had him front and center in a novel length story but he had kind of a co leading role in All I Wanted Was Some Cough Medicine so I'm going with that one. LOL
Nick: Ground Zero by Chaos <--- again I think Chaos does an awesome job writing in Nick's POV and I just loved this story!! So awesome, even after all these years.
This one is rough because I have written a ton of Nick stories lol But I'm going to go with The Importance of Fly Fishing because nothing is better than a Nick and Kevin combo! lol
Kevin: Garden by Louise <---- Excellent story about Kevin dying and his thoughts. I rarely read stories about people besides Nick but I featured this one on my old fanfic reading group and fell in love with it.
I'm going with To Protect and Serve for mine, because Kevin as an FBI agent? Yes please lol
Brian: Can You Keep a Secret by Kat and Amy <--- it was just a really sweet story alternating POVs between Nick and Brian and really captured the stereotypical Frick and Frack we loved so much!
For me, It Stays With You because it was really hard to write lol
Howie: Sad to say I have never read a Howie centered story. *sorry Howie* :( I don't mean to be so stereotypical. lol
I have written a lot of Howie short stories though! Yay Howie! But I'll go with my one Howie novel and that was Lion's Den!
I'm also adding Group onto this one. lol
Group: Snapshots by Jennifer Stephens <--- fantastic story, each boy had their own chapter about what happens when Nick suddenly goes missing after going to a club.
For mine it would be Why I'd d it All Again.
* Sorry I always seem to pick the oldies but I find myself going back to them again and again.
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Kevin: Garden by Louise <---- Excellent story about Kevin dying and his thoughts. I rarely read stories about people besides Nick but I featured this one on my old fanfic reading group and fell in love with it.
I had the hardest time deciding between Fly Fishing and Garden as my favorite Kevin story, I almost just called it a tie and put them both! Garden is a great story.
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Aww I did the same with Can You Keep A Secret & Mind Games lol
Thanks for picking Fly Fishing :)
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Sure! :)
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I just thought of a question lol
Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?
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Best villian I have read is Howie in 00Carter :) he's so complex yet so simple. I love how he is written as an AU character because come on....can anyone imagine Howard being so evil?
As for villian I've written....I'd say Valerie hands down. She's just batshit crazy and was a lot of fun to play with.
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AJ:
Read: Sinister Devotion
Wrote: Widow's Walk
Nick:
Read: Rewind
Wrote: Amnesia
Kevin:
Read: The Garden
Wrote: Chronos Project
Brian:
Read: Mind Games
Wrote: Severed Identities
Howie:
Read: *coughs* I can't recall the ones I've read ... uhhhh poor Howie
Wrote: 00Carter
Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?
I love writing villains. It sounds really bad but I have an easier time getting into the villains' heads. I love writing Dr. Rough scenes for 00Carter, I quickly volunteer to write scenes with him in it. But my favorite villain that I've written is Corin in Wulf's Bane. He is just so evil I don't kno why I enjoy writing him but I do. I am sure I've read some really great villains but I can't think of any in fanfic.
Great villains make you wish they were defeated but you can't help but want to know what they are going to do next. What more can they do to make themselves the villain. I don't know how else to describe what makes a villain great. LOL
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I have a question for Saka-Steph, Mare, Rose, and anyone else who writes stories that alternate between all five guys' POVs:
When you balance the five POVs that way, do you find that some of the guys are harder to write than others? If so, which are the hardest for you and why? Do you think the ease or difficulty of writing the guys has to do more with how well you like them or how well you can relate to them?
"Here We Stand" is my first attempt at writing all five POVs. (Except in Undead but it's AU and it had five original characters too). I usually go with Brian and Nick, sometimes AJ. I wanted to challenge myself and I loved the idea of a reunion story so when Mare mentioned it in a thread here I ran with it. Honestly it's harder than I realized lol. The biggest challenge is trying to make sure they each sound unique while still sounding like the Boys we know.
The easiest for me are Nick and Kevin. Kevin's role I know very well, I can relate to the big brother thing, I kind of write him like how my oldest brother is with me, the youngest of five siblings. So I can easily picture him. Nick is the same way, I get a lot of him from me. I can relate to him in a lot of ways. When I write him, it flows like it doesn't with any of the others.
AJ's not hard persay, but I like delving into his issues too. In that the biggest challenge is to make sure he doesn't slip into "Nick" as I write him. Usually it's remedied by his cursing or just how he'll say whatever the hell he's thinking. Sometimes I try to have him comedic or I give him emo on a darker level than I give Nick. It depends on the story.
Brian's not hard to write normally, but in HWS he is. I think it's simply because I find it hard to relate to him. I usually rely on his bond with Nick to get me through lol. It's why even though he's my fave with Nick, he's harder to write in stories and why I only have one Brian story lol. And even in that one I take everything away so I can write him better :P. I just have virtually nothing in common with Brian or his lifestyle right now so he's hard to write. In HWS I focused in on his Kevin bond because honestly, that's the one thing I can relate to lol - a family member who's like one of your best friends and in some ways closer than your siblings, but you never noticed growing up lol.
Howie's the other one I have a hard time with. But this isn't his fault. His sense of humor is really one that sneaks up on you. He's hilarious but it's just the kind that's hard to translate into words in a story. He's also in some ways similar to Brian. And so I run into the same problem I have with AJ/Nick, trying to make sure he doesn't start sounding like "Brian". I also can't relate to Howie much, except on the idea of having four "brothers" (in my case siblings) who seem to outshine you or get noticed, for both good and bad things. So usually I focus in on that because it's how I relate to him.
So the point of this long post is that yeah, it has a lot to do with how much I can relate to him as people.
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My favorites for each guy...
AJ:
read - Nowhere to Run (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/nowhere.html)
wrote - The World Will Know Your Name (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8970)
Nick:
read - Cover Me With Dreams (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9184)
wrote - Curtain Call (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10159)
Kevin:
read - The Importance of Fly Fishing (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=3655)
wrote - Guilty Roads (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10116) (I like my Kevin comatose LOL. Really, I just don't write Kevin stories!)
Brian:
read - Mind Games (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/mindgames.html)
wrote - Secrets of the Heart (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9283)
Howie:
read - He Had it Coming (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10366)
wrote - 00Carter (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9085)
Awww I'm honored I wrote your fave Howie fic. It's only because he epically murders Nick huh? LOL.
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^ Precisely. And also because I haven't read many Howie stories LOL. But homicidal Howie is definitely my favorite Howie to read!
Which brings me to the villain question. Dr. Rough in 00Carter is definitely my favorite villain I've written. (Thanks, Tracy, for mentioning him!) He's kind of like Kim Jong Il in "Team America," this completely over-the-top supervillain who has a Napoleon complex, a love of fine things, and a soft spot that makes him seem not so villainous at times. Because it's a spoof, he's the cliched evil genius whose ultimate goal is world domination or destruction, but he's got his motives and insecurities as well, and those have been especially fun to write.
My favorite fanfic villains tend to be the more believable ones, the ones who are actually scary. Mare's "Beautiful Girl" was terrifying because I could imagine a crazy fan actually doing something like that if given the opportunity. In fact, there's one on YouTube right now who kind of fits that bill... *twitch* Xavier in "Mind Games" was another one who really was scary because he was able to get away with doing so many horrible things to Brian right under the other guys' noses. Mo in "Scared of Reality" was another good one. He always had an air of desperation, a guy who knew he'd dug himself in too deep and was struggling to find a way out. Desperate people are scary because they're unpredictable and will do anything to save themselves. Steph's bot flies were pretty badass villains too! Or should I call them heroes? LOL
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What is your favorite story you've written and read of each of the guys?
AJ:
Written: Crazy... http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10356
Read: Watch Me As I Bleed http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9203
Nick:
Written: Remember Me This Way http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10108
Read: The Importance of Fly Fishing http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=3655
Kevin:
Written: The Only Truth I Know (it's the only Kevin fic I've written really lol) http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10772
Read: "It's Your Life" by Eboni - it's really funny that years later Kevin did take a break. I just liked how she wrote Kevin's frustrations and his wishing none of it ever happened, and him witnessing the "What If"? of that. http://web.archive.org/web/20031130031204/http://bewaretheenchanted.homestead.com/ItsYourLifeindex.html
Brian:
Read: If We Were A Movie http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8656
Written: Walked Out Of My Dreams - http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10274
Howie:
Read: Um...I don't really read Howie stories. Oh! "Not Your Average Cinderella Story" was one! I win! LMAO. http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8205&index=1
Written: 00Carter http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9085
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I just thought of a question lol
Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?
My favorite villains to write are usually the ones that are either way over the top, or the ones that you can relate to. The ones who are in this weird shade of grey instead of being pure good or pure evil. Because of that it's not a shock to see my fave two villains I've had a hand in writing are Dr. Rough and Drums in 00Carter. Dr. Rough you can never be too big with him, he has all the issues of a real person but because it's a spoof, we can go a little crazy. And then Drums, despite how we created him to mock out of our hatred of Justin Timberlake, he's got layers. He used to be this good agent and then circumstances took that from him. Dr. Rough saw that and warped him into something darker, feeding on the insecurities Drums had.
I feel like the best villains are the ones that still have humanity in there somewhere. They're the ones where you can see why they became as screwed up as they are LOL. The second answer to that are the ones that are truly evil, the ones that just creep you the hell out. Julie mentioned the fan in Mare's "Beautiful Girl" and I think that's a perfect example. She's realistic and yet so totally screwed up in the head and it's just creepy beyond belief.
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Favorite stories:
Nick Written: Not The Other Guy
Nick Read: Total Kaos 24/7 if I have to pick. Cause there's a lot that are my favorite.
Brian Written: The Dating Game
Brian Read: Borrowed Time
Kevin Written: Camping With The Devil (because it's the only Kevin story I've done)
Kevin Read: The Importance Of Fly Fishing
Howie Written: Howie Snaps
Howie Read: Back To Me
AJ Written: Forces Of Nature (my only AJ story)
AJ Read: Sincerely Yours
Group Written: Weird World
Group Read: Whatever The Night May Bring
It was really hard for me to choose just one. I wanted to list a bunch for each category because there are so many that I like equally.
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What is your favorite story you've written and read of each of the guys?
AJ:
Read - Sinister Devotion by Erika
Wrote - Ten Things as I don't think I've written any other AJ only stories.
Nick:
Read - Curtain Call by Julie
Wrote - Rewind
Kevin:
Read - It's A Wonderful Life, Kevin by Pengi
Wrote - Life Begins At Forty
Brian:
Read - Severed Identities by Lore
Wrote - Valentine Insanity (it's the only Brian story I've done)
Howie:
Read - Not Your Average Cinderella Story by Honey
Wrote - The Man With Two Brains
Group:
Read - Why I'd Do It All Again by Mare/Song For The Undead by Rose and Julie. I chose two because one is AU and one isn't and I had to have both :)
Wrote - Save A Prayer
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I just thought of a question lol
Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?
The only villains I've written have been Brian in Unwinding Truth and Nick in Revenge of the Slaughtered. But some of my favourites to read have been Max in What Lurks Around The Corner, Nick in Chronos Project, Valerie in Figured You Out and I can't think of any others right now.
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Thanks for the mentions, Steph and Rose! LOL I forgot about Nick in Revenge of the Slaughtered. I guess he is a villain - haha. I just got done watching two hours of documentaries about serial killers on the Bio channel too!
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Thank you Steph! I love Valerie. She was so much fun.
Some of my favorite villains include:
Howie from 00Carter
Lou and Johnny in Borrowed Time
Max in What Lurks Around The Corner
Nick in Chronos Project
Leighanne in one of Karah's stories, it was the Nick and Harley series but I wanna say The Story Of Us? Not sure offhand.
Villains I've written: I mentioned Valerie earlier but Kevin and Nick's clone in Weird World come to mind :)
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Thanks Steph!
LOL Julie, I totally forgot about Nick in Revenge. Probably because he's a hot homicidal maniac?
And you're welcome, you know I can't resist a story where AJ talks about everyone being chopped apart :P.
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Oh and and I forgot...
Group:
Read: Why I'd Do It All Again (I adore that story Mare lol). http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=4981
Written: Song For The Undead http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9551
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First of all thanks Julie, Rose, Steph and Tracy for the mentions of my stories. Especially Fly Fishing. I always beam with pride when you guys acknowledge that one. It's always flattering to see someone say you're their favorite.
Now to answer the villains question. To me what makes a great villain is someone who has multi layers. I love writing and thinking of back stories for all my villains, even if I don't make them known to the readers. It's important for me to know why they do the things they do.
You guys covered a lot of the ones I was going to mention like Mo in Scared of Reality and the bodyguard in Mind Games. Also the woman in Seven Days and the guy in charge in Boys in the Basement. Mersey is also a queen of inventing great multi layered villains which is why I named my villain in the Protect and Serve series after her!
As far as the fan in Beautiful Girl, I'm glad you see in her the kind of psycho fan I as trying to create. Someone who was crazy but at first seemed sane. As her life started to spiral so did her mind. Thanks so much for mentioning her. I really take that as a compliment since it was the first short story I ever wrote.
Which brings me to my favorite villain to read, which is the villain because of circumstances beyond their control. The people who can't help but like just a little. Even if they are completely evil, you can kind of see and even understand why they do the things they do. I love reading stories like that! It's probably why Malfoy and Snape were two of my all time favorite villains to read. I loved to hate them but also secretly found myself rooting for them as well. lol I wrote Max hoping for that same kind of feeling so again thanks for mentioning him.
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Thanks for the mentions Steph and Tracy. I quite enjoyed writing Nick in that role. :)
And I can't believe I forgot Valarie as a villain.... loved her wacko craziness.
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Valerie was a favourite villain of mine as well.
As for favourite stories for each boy..
Nick:
Read: Curtain Call (even though I am still making my way through it)
Wrote: February Stars
Brian:
Read: Borrowed Time
Wrote: Nick's Dirty Kicks
AJ:
Read: Documentaries
Wrote: Pranking the Prankster
Howie:
Read: Thoughts from the English Countryside (from Mare's Scattered Pictures collection)
Wrote: Nothing Good Happens After 2am
Kevin:
Read: Here We Go Again (also from Mare's Scattered Pictures collection)
Wrote: I Close the Door
A lot of those are newer but I have a terrible memory for stuff I've read lol
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Thanks, Steph lol Documentaries rocks!
Your Curtain Call mention brings me to a very morbid question lol
If one of the boys were dying and decided to do a final goodbye tour, would you go?
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Haha, you did ask it!
I think I would go if I was able to. I would be a mess, but if it was the choice between seeing them perform one last time and not seeing them perform, I'd rather go and see them perform, even if it was going to be horribly emotional. Like most things I write in stories, though, that is something I never want to happen in real life!
Thanks for listing CC as your favorite, Steph!
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I would go, but I'm sure I would be crying the entire show.
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I don't think I'd be able to do it. I wouldn't be able to handle it. I probably would only be able to watch it long after the fact if it came out on DVD or something.
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I would be a mess before and after but during I can only hope that I would be caught up in the moment so that I have memories of the final concert. I would want to be there for sure.
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If I was able to go, then I would go. But like everyone else, I would be a mess and would probably cry through the whole show, whilst singing along too.
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Yeah I agree, Lore. I'd probably be a mess afterwards as well and I definitely would not have the same post concert bliss.
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I am completely undecided. Part of me wants to go but the other part says it's too emotional for me. I'd hate to see it be the very last time I'd go to a show :(
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So, I'm possibly the only wuss then? lol
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I mean, as difficult as it would be I just wouldn't want to miss out on the chance to see them one last time.
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As morbid as this sounds, I would see it almost like a funeral. No one goes to a funeral for the fun of it; you know it's going to be sad, but you go anyway because you love that person and want to give them a send-off with other people who love them too.
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I would definitely go. I would probably be like Lore and Steph and reality would hit me after. I hope that never happens though.
Favorite stories of each BSB...
AJ
Read: hmmm can't think of one he's usually the sidekick
Wrote: Sinister Devotion (AJ as Jak the assassin was a pretty fun thing to write.)
Nick
Read: On Nightingale Hill by Filiklepto/Life According to Baylee by Alota_cookin
Wrote: Fight Me (Nick as a fighter is pretty hot! :drools:)
Kevin
Read: Chronos Project by PurpuraLipstic k
Wrote: Safest Place (This was my first attempt at writing one of the guys sick and dying. Heh... I chose Kevin for it!)
Brian:
Read: It Stay With You by Mare
Wrote: none so far...oops!
Howie:
Read: Sweet Little Lullaby by Anastacia
Wrote: Driving Me Crazy (it would be Howie that let's AJ pawn his fiancé on him to tag along on a road trip from Florida to california and fall in love with her in the process.
Group
Read: Searching for Mercy by Honey
Wrote: I usually include all te guys in my stories. I have yet to write a group focused story.
That's so awesome SD is a favorite of yours Lore and Steph! Thank you!
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After doing some thinking, I think I would go to lend my support and see them off, because I would regret it forever if I didn't go.
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We need a less depressing question up in here! LOL Anyone have one? Anyone?
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Okay what has been your favorite memory of writing? I'm sure everyone has one of those...
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That's a good one! I'll have to think about it, but that definitely seems happier than discussing the Boys dying! LOL
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I've been on a roll thinking up questions, that's unusual lol
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Okay, favorite writing or writing-related memories. I definitely can't narrow them down to one, so here are the top three that came to mind:
*Finishing "By My Side"
Finishing ANY story feels good, but finishing BMS was especially amazing because I had been plugging away at it for almost four years, and if you include Broken in that, five years. The two stories together were over a million words and almost 2000 pages long, so it felt like a huge accomplishment to type the final "The End." And then I was just like, "Okay, now what?" LOL
*The Felix Awards
AC's fanfic awards are so much better than any of the old-school awards I was ever involved with. My favorite part is when we all gather together on the forum for the award ceremony to see the winners announced. Julilly, Mare, and Chaos put so much effort into making it fun, creative, and interactive, so it really feels like another Oscar/Emmy/Grammy night! The year some of us actually put on gowns and took pictures of our reactions was fun. And of course it's fun to be nominated and to win some awards, but the whole spectacle of it is as much fun as actually being recognized.
*00Carter chats
I've done a lot of collaborations, including two big collabs, but nothing has been more fun than 00Carter. From the original thread on here that spawned the idea to our many late-night chats planning episodes on Yahoo Messenger, I've never laughed as much as I do when chatting and planning with Rose, Lore, and the rest of our crew who don't post here anymore. And the writing is as much fun as the planning!
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Wow... I don't know!
Definitely Felix Awards comes to mind. Like Julie said, that year some of us dressed up was really fun. And I love the awards ceremony themselves lol. It's always a really fun evening and you can always tell that Julilly, Mare and Chaos put a lot of work into them! I was also pretty happy when I got a runner-up for Nothing Good Happens After 2am. That was a nice feeling for sure!
When I was featured for In Pieces was another good one. That was also really awesome because I never thought I'd have a story that so many people would read and enjoy, much less some of the authors I looked up to! Also the feature was the same month that the story took place (August 2008) so that was kinda random and awesome how it worked out.
My friend and I have been having these writing days where we just sit in my apartment and write, and since we're directly across from each other it's like peer pressure. Those are always fun because one of us will just blurt out a random line about what we're writing and laugh... or we'll brainstorm with each other and neither of us really knows about each other's fandoms so we just come up with the weirdest stuff. Yeah lol
I'm sure there are more but those are the first ones that came to mind.
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Favorite writing memories.... I have a few...
#1 - Not really writing... but kind of related. When the clip of Nick's "My Confession" came out over the 4th of July weekend in 2002. I had like 5,000 e-mails because of the site and I'm not going to lie, I cried. LOL.
#2 - Asking Nick about fan fiction last summer and him teasing me while getting the picture made about the question.
#3 - Starting my first real BSB story after my hiatus during college. It was called "Long Trip Alone."
#4 - Finding out a NASCAR driver read my NASCAR fan fiction and was on the site before and after qualifying during one race. LOL
#5 - Winning the Felix Award this past time, because I honestly didn't expect to win anything because I don't do all that much over here. That was hella cool.
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Let's see....
1. Being featured last June was a total surprise because I haven't been around that long. I know I'm nowhere near any of you girls yet, but people asking for me to be featured made my week. I was so happy, I teared up.
2. Mare leaving me a review on MY story and telling me that she told people to read it. She's my favorite author so I was really touched by her review. Also seeing a lot of my other favorite authors reading the story meant a lot.
3. Winning best suspense story at the Felix Awards and being a part of it. I'd not been on the forum a long time so it was a lot of fun for me to participate, although I didn't think I was gonna win at all. I thought Rose and Julie or Mare would take it.
4. Looking at my page and seeing I've written 26 stories in just 3 years, seeing how much my writing has improved, I am just really proud of myself :)
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^ Isn't that the most amazing feeling, when someone you've looked up to reads your story and compliments you on it?
I think the first time that happened to me was with Broken. Two of the people who gave me regular feedback on that story were Jenna, who co-wrote Swollen Issues, the story that inspired me to write Broken in the first place, and Jen, who wrote Blind Love, the first fanfic I ever read. They were both medical drama queens and had been very influential to me and my writing, so it was awesome to know they were reading and enjoying a story of mine. They are actually both nurses, so their feedback meant a lot to me for that reason too.
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It is the BEST feeling in the entire world. I was so excited when you were reading too, because I look up to you guys. I look up to so many people here that I can't list them but having that happen while being a newbie....I got so much confidence from that.
My confidence in my writing has gotten tons better in the past year and I have all you girls to thank for that.
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Aww, thanks, and you're welcome! It never stops being awesome to hear that other people like your work, whether they're writers you've admired for years or readers who are brand new to the site. And it's also flattering to find out that someone looks up to you the way that you've looked up to others.
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Okay what has been your favorite memory of writing? I'm sure everyone has one of those...
I really enjoy the Felix Awards, it's a great feeling to just get nominated for anything and also to see some of my favourite author win awards.
Another good memory is discovering this place and the all the amazing stories posted here. Before finding AC, I'd only read romance with the author as the female lead.
Having my favourite writers read my stories and review them.
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One of my earliest favorite writing memories was sitting at the computer listening to music writing More Than That while chatting with the other Lipsticks to get ready for an update to the site and making smart ass comments to the show I was listening to, Murasaki was watching, in the background. I don't know why that has stuck with me but it has.
Being surprised by the reaction some of my stories have gotten/get. I love my own stories but to get reviews or comments from people saying how much they enjoy reading them is just a really nice feeling. I have been especially surprised lately because I've had two people recently read and OLD story of mine and enjoy it. It was so long ago, I have grown as a writer so I didn't think the way it was written was as good but it was nice to get comments from people who just read it and like it.
Being nominated and winning the award this past year at the Felix Awards. When I saw who I was up against I didn't think I had a chance of actually winning. I'm still in shock that I won.
The 00Carter chats are definitely entertaining and it's awesome how the ideas just blurt out from everyone. And I have to give props to Rose for making sense of some of our random spew and forming the outlines as we go.
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Sorry for the morbid question, it was all Julie's fault lol
As far as favorite writing memory. I have a few but not all of them have to do with writing. lol
The very first time I got feedback for Mizpah was pretty amazing because up until that point, I had never experienced that before. And just as Tracy mentioned me and I thank you so much for that, Tracy! To think i'm one of your favorite fanfic memories is incredible to me! Along those lines I can clearly remember the first time I ever got an email from Jenna, Swenglish and of course Chaos. I squeed as if the boys themselves had sent me feedback lol It means a lot when someone you look up to awknoledges your writing.
Writing Phantasm was a highlight for me because it's how I got really close to a lot of the fanfic writers I admire so much. Just emailing people back and forth and Iming others, this is really when Mersey and I became super close. The actual story wasn't all that great but the experience is something i'll never forget lol
Opening this forum! This was a big deal that both Julilly and I really pushed for and when we finally got to do it, I was hoping it would be a place where we could all go and talk about fanfic. I am so glad it ended up being just that and also it makes me smile knowing some real friendships were born because of this forum!
The featured author/story thread - I am so proud to have kept this going for as long as I have. We are now on our 67th story being featured. I just feel like so many other sites have tried to take this idea and run with it but they have all failed and we are still going strong. I take great pride in that and am really excited to see some of you mention that as an answer to your question.
Also thanks for all the Felix mentions. I really feel like Felix is Julilly's baby but it is a lot of work and we're glad you guys really enjoy it!
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Mare, without this forum, I would be in-come-puh-le-ete! LOL Seriously, it's my favorite place on the internet! And like you said, I've made so many friends through AC that I never would have known otherwise. It's awesome how a shared love of writing about a boyband could bring us all together! :) LOL
You do a great job with the featured author/story thread. It's only because of you coming in with questions every few days to try to keep the conversation going that that has lasted as long as it has. The rest of us don't exactly help you out much every month LOL. (I'm sure some of you do post in there every month; I'm speaking for myself and the others who don't.)
And sorry for inspiring the morbid question; it was my fault. #BlameJulie 8-)
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I have a question.
If you could turn one of your stories into a movie, which would you chose and who would you like to act in it? The reason I ask is that I often think Song For The Undead would be an awesome movie, with the zombies and all the survival stuff :)
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Mare, without this forum, I would be in-come-puh-le-ete! LOL Seriously, it's my favorite place on the internet! And like you said, I've made so many friends through AC that I never would have known otherwise. It's awesome how a shared love of writing about a boyband could bring us all together! :) LOL
You do a great job with the featured author/story thread. It's only because of you coming in with questions every few days to try to keep the conversation going that that has lasted as long as it has. The rest of us don't exactly help you out much every month LOL. (I'm sure some of you do post in there every month; I'm speaking for myself and the others who don't.)
And sorry for inspiring the morbid question; it was my fault. #BlameJulie 8-)
Thanks, Julie! I really love seeing all the bonding that goes on here :) and I sometimes fail myself with asking questions etc... lol
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I have a question.
If you could turn one of your stories into a movie, which would you chose and who would you like to act in it? The reason I ask is that I often think Song For The Undead would be an awesome movie, with the zombies and all the survival stuff :)
Aww, thanks, Steph!! :)
It would be awesome to see Song for the Undead brought to life on screen. I think it would make a better TV show or miniseries than a movie because it's so long and somewhat episodic, the way it's told in ten-chapter parts that each have their own little story arc in the context of the larger story. There's a lot that could be cut out to make it into a movie, but also a lot that would be fun to leave in if we didn't have a certain limit as far as length.
As far as who would act in it... that's always a hard question. We could probably get Nick to play himself, although that might not be a good thing - we've seen his acting LOL. But I would still like to have him.
For Brian, I would cast my love Shawn Ashmore. He has the look, and he can do both horror and drama. I think he could pull off the angst Brian's character goes through and make our hearts break for him.
Eh, that's all I've got right now LOL. It would take too long to go through each of the ten characters and figure out an actor or actress who could play them. If we got Nick to play himself and Shawn Ashmore to play Brian, I wouldn't care who played the rest; that would be enough for me LOL. I'll let Rose jump in with her thoughts on the rest!
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Maybe for Brian you want Aaron Ashmore ;) kidding. LOL
I'd like to see Just One Kiss by Erika turned into a movie. I am such a sucker for romantic comedies I think this would be great! :) But I don't know who'd I'd cast! LOL
As for my own stories, I'm not sure I'd want any of them as a movie.
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Maybe for Brian you want Aaron Ashmore ;) kidding. LOL
LOL That would work, seeing as how they're identical! I've never seen Aaron act in anything, though, so my heart lies with Shawn.
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Hrmm... I always have a problem with this question because the only people I can see playing the boys are the boys lol
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For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
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For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
- Funniest? It's a cross between Fear Of Flying by Pengi, 1000 Ways To Kill Nick Carter and Nick's Dirty Kicks by Sakabelle. I can't pick just one cause those are all amazing. Plus any collab between Pengi and Evergreenwrite r83 is hilarious.
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
- Written: my parody of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer was my best one I think.
Also in When I Grow Up, AJ says "Nick gets so much pussy that his room is a revolving door", Nick responds "That is a LOT of cats" LMAO.
-Read: I loved Julie's story for 1000 ways where he kills Mare "Grinch" style. I was rolling the whole time.
Karah has had a lot of funny moments in Fearless series. I really laughed when Karsyns daughter says she wants to know where babies come from and then says Nick would start stuttering if she asked him.
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
I love comedy so I try to include it and I like reading funny stories. It all keeps things interesting :)
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Most of my favorite comedies are short stories. The Backstreet Baby (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/bsbbaby.html) series of shorts are some of the funniest stories I've read. Rebels for the Cause (http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/dwlyn/rebels.html) is a hilarious spoof of all the old-school fanfic cliches. I loved Mare's A Day in the Life of AJ (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10964&chapter=4) one-shot.
I don't read a lot of longer comedies, but Brian Potter and the Malevolent Musician (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9731) and Just One Kiss (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10411) are two recent ones that I've enjoyed.
I don't write many full-out comedies, though I try to include comic relief in my dramatic stories, either by having the characters lighten the mood or by planting my own little jokes inside them.
I consider the stuff I've written for 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10669) and Revenge of the Slaughtered (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10670) to be black comedy, and I've enjoyed reading the parts people have contributed to both of those.
Most of the comedic stuff I've written in recent years has been for 00Carter (http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9085). Some of the funniest scenes I've contributed to that are Dr. Rough's freak out on the "It's a Small World" ride at Disney World and the Speed parody with the Zamboni at the Winter Olympics.
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Tracy, I forgot about the stories from this year's April Fool's challenge, but all of those were hilarious!!!
And thanks for mentioning my Grinch spoof in Revenge of the Slaughtered! That was fun to write! Parodies are my favorite kind of comedy.
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LOL That would work, seeing as how they're identical! I've never seen Aaron act in anything, though, so my heart lies with Shawn.
He was on Smallville for a while as Jimmy and now he's on Warehouse 13...
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Is it sad I don't remember what I wrote for the April Fool's challenge LOL but thanks!
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Some of my favorite funny stories i've read have to be all of Marly's A day in the life of a Backstreet Boy etc... ones. Oh I loved Julie's old MST's as well. They always cracked me up!
The one's I've written would have to be Four Santa's Too Many. Total Kaos 24/7 and Snuggles Gone Bad lol And that A Day in the life of AJ one. I tend to think i'm funny but sometimes i'm alone in my thinking. LOL
I love adding comedy into my stories. I think it's really important to occasionally throw in some humor. Most of my stories fall into the dramedy category.
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Is it sad I don't remember what I wrote for the April Fool's challenge LOL but thanks!
Don't feel bad. I don't remember most of the things I write, especially when they are challenge stories! LOL
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I totally read that wrong lmao. But I loved the April fools ones. There are just too many funny moments to mention but A Million Little Things has a lot of them!
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funny stuff? My humor all lies in 00Carter though sometimes I think it is subtle that only I, or the other girls, gets.
My favorite funny scene in 00Carter that I wrote was in Here Ye Be Pirates when Dr. Rough was daydreaming about placing an inside man at Himtak ... just the image of him laying on his bed with his ankles crossed.... maybe it was just humorous to me but I quite enjoyed writing that part. I tend to not write the funny scenes though I think I add little bits of humor in my parts.
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I totally read that wrong lmao. But I loved the April fools ones. There are just too many funny moments to mention but A Million Little Things has a lot of them!
See, that's an example of not remembering. I think i've said a few times. I don't remember that story at all! LOL Thanks though, at least I know some of it was funny! *roams around the thread naked*
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funny stuff? My humor all lies in 00Carter though sometimes I think it is subtle that only I, or the other girls, gets.
My favorite funny scene in 00Carter that I wrote was in Here Ye Be Pirates when Dr. Rough was daydreaming about placing an inside man at Himtak ... just the image of him laying on his bed with his ankles crossed.... maybe it was just humorous to me but I quite enjoyed writing that part. I tend to not write the funny scenes though I think I add little bits of humor in my parts.
LOL That part was funny - it made me laugh just reading your description of it and picturing him lying that way. I have a feeling we crack each other up way more than we do anyone else, but that's okay. That's the fun of a collaboration, I guess, you get to enjoy it from both sides of things.
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I agree that we all probably laugh about the story more than the readers.
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00Carter is one of those stories I'd seen on most recent a lot, never clicked on it because I wasn't sure...but one day I just went "what could be bad about a story where Nick's a secret agent?"
I'm so glad I decided to read it because its one of my favorites. I adore that story! It's hilarious and has some serious moments, but I laugh so hard at a lot of the jokes. I really enjoy it!
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Aww, thanks, Tracy! To be honest, it's probably not a story I would ever click on either LOL; I wasn't even sure about writing it when Rose originally suggested it, but I'm glad I did. It's not for everyone, but I love it. I'm glad you gave it a try and found it worth reading! We just started working on the next episode, so hopefully we'll have some updates before too long.
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Julie, I just googled Shawn Ashmore and think he would make a great Brian.
I don't really know which is mine I would turn into a movie, maybe Save A Prayer with Channing Tatum playing Nick, Mark Wahlberg for Brian (they look a bit alike), James Franco for AJ and Jared Leto for Howie.
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If I could make a movie out of a story? Hmmm maybe Not The Other Guy. I'm not sure who I would have act in it since the characters are 18 and by the end of it they are 21.
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For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
I think maybe the funniest thing I've written is The Man With Two Brains where Howie grew another head, which turned out to be like an evil twin. I think one of the funniest ones I've read (that I can think of right now) is Nick's Dirty Kicks by Steph.
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
I'm sure there are many scenes/stories I've read that have had my laughing out loud, but I can't think right now.
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
I don't think I write much comedy, and I don't really read a lot of comedy either, but that doesn't mean I don't like it or wouldn't read it :)
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Aww thanks Steph! Oh Nick's Dirty Kicks. I don't think I'll ever write anything weirder than that lol
For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
The funniest thing I think I've written is probably Nick's Dirty Kicks. As for the funniest thing I've read? That story Tracy wrote about Nick being a gyno was pretty funny, where Kevin was his cat LMAO. Also Mare's AJ one-shot in her Scattered Pictures collection was amazing. Oh and also the story Tracy wrote with the reference to AJ doing a Nick showering bomb haha.
Wow I suck at remembering the titles for things but yeah. Those were all very funny!
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
Yeah, Brian being dragged away as he's like "I need to eat them! They look so delicious!" Every time I have gone back and re-read that story I always laugh at that line.
Also AJ in Mare's story while Kevin takes a photo of the cake and him thinking "He has no idea what the fans want to see!" lmao.
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
Yeah, even though I write a lot of angst I like to add some comic relief. And I'm always up for reading a comedy!
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Julie, I just googled Shawn Ashmore and think he would make a great Brian.
I don't really know which is mine I would turn into a movie, maybe Save A Prayer with Channing Tatum playing Nick, Mark Wahlberg for Brian (they look a bit alike), James Franco for AJ and Jared Leto for Howie.
Isn't he cute? He's not that well known, but I heart him.
I've always thought Mark Wahlberg looked a bit like Brian too. Brian's hotter though! Who would play Jordan? LOL
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Isn't he cute? He's not that well known, but I heart him.
I've always thought Mark Wahlberg looked a bit like Brian too. Brian's hotter though! Who would play Jordan? LOL
Yes, Brian is hotter than Mark. Hmm, for Jordan what about Zachary Quinto?
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See, my memory is crap! How could I forget AJ and his instagram photos and bombs in Mare's story. I was laughing at that chapter :)
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For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
Hmmmm I suck cause I can't think of any specific ones at the time. I know reading Life According to Baylee there were a few funny scenes. Also AJ was funny in Figured You Out.
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
Ugh...I can't think of any right now.
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
I tend to throw in a scene or two with something funny. Usually it's AJ who makes the funny comments or things. The only story with a lot of comedy I've written has been Just One Kiss.
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Awww thanks for the mentions guys! I loved Nick as a gyno. I cracked up at his cat being named Kevin.
Erika, I also loved AJ in FYO, he was fun as comic relief. I liked when he and Rochelle needed "private time". Which reminds me, he's always looking for condoms in my stories and bumming them from Nick!
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Awww thanks for the mentions guys! I loved Nick as a gyno. I cracked up at his cat being named Kevin.
Erika, I also loved AJ in FYO, he was fun as comic relief. I liked when he and Rochelle needed "private time". Which reminds me, he's always looking for condoms in my stories and bumming them from Nick!
That's exactly the part I was talking about. I just coulnd't remember his exact words. "Private time" LMAO!!!
A funny scene of my own stories would be in Just One Kiss when Nick gets poison oak on his private for being a moron. lol. Or when he's walking around with a tea cup dog and he feels like he's lost his manhood. LOL!
In Fight Me it would be when Nick wants to teach Max a lesson and he puts her to fight against a well known fighter and as soon as she walks in he flags her down changing his mind, but she's already knocked out. LOL!
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Does anyone have a question for today?
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how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?
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And again thanks for all the AJ mentions lol
I think two of my favorite scenes I've written are the scene in Foyr Santas Too Many where all the guys are putting together toys that Brian bought Baylee but Kevin can't even get the box open lol
And in Total Kaos 24/7 the photoshoot scene where the guy dresses Nick up like an angel.
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how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?
That is a good one! :)
I started as an avid reader for a while before I started to write. I don't remember the year but it was probably around 2001 or 2002? Thereabouts. It's been a long time lol
For a long time I was more a writer than a reader now I'd say it's about even. Write a little, read a little.
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Mare I loved the angel outfit! That was one of my favorite parts of that story, too bad I can't remember anything else!
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Thanks, Tracy, that's all I really remember from that one as well lol
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I used to write fanfic in high school. 1999 was the year I started writing about BSB, even though I'd been a fan for 3 years already. I used to carry around notebooks. One day I was in the library and bored so I looked up BSB and found fanfic on the internet.
I was much more of a reader up until I joined FF.net as supergirl64, where my early version of Weird World was born. When they got rid of real person fics, I lost everything and stopped writing up until 3 years ago when I joined AC. I joined twitter about the same time as well. Now I'm more of a writer, but I do read a lot so I suppose it is about even.
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When did they get rid of real person fic? Because around then was when I started writing. I had just started writing & posting Mizpah when they made that decision.
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God. I can't even remember when it was. They gave us warning but at the time I had nowhere to put my work. I literally had to start from scratch when I began posting at AC.
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When did they get rid of real person fic? Because around then was when I started writing. I had just started writing & posting Mizpah when they made that decision.
It was around 2001, I only remember cause I'd started my very first collaboration and we went to post it only to learn they banned RP fics. I was pissed lol. Especially since it was supposedly to do with copyright, um, yeah fanfic based on TV and books is more of a violation!
And now I shall backtrack and catch up on questions LOL.
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On the subject of the Boys dying lol, I'd go to their farewell shows if one of them was dying, only cause I know I'd regret it if I didn't. I'd be a mess, but I'd go.
Okay what has been your favorite memory of writing? I'm sure everyone has one of those...
00Carter I swear that collaboration even if it's not popular, which it's not, is so much fun lol. The random chats, the way it came to be based on a random thought I had. Everything about it is fun. That story just has a lot of good memories attached to it.
Felix Awards I've been part of those since the first one here and each one is a blast! They're different, creative, fun, and very interactive. I love being here for those. I love them whether I win or not :).
Song For The Undead This is always fun for me to write. This is the story, where I realized just how much the right collaboration partner counts LOL. It's fun, a lot of the ideas come from random places and there's a lot of morbid jokes passed between Julie and I. The idea yet again, came up from me latching on to a musing and Julie mentioning the word collab lmfao. I feel like some of my best writing is in there and it's just great having that story where I'm completely on the same wavelength as my partner in crime. :).
Remember Me This Way - This was just a great feeling because it was my first venture into medical/psychological angst. It was different for me and my favorite thing was really putting myself out there into what was for me unknown territory by myself. I'd tasted this sort of thing when I helped on Code Blue, but never delved into it completely my own. Everything about this story was new and that's why I loved writing it so much. It was great seeing people react to it and become what it was. :)
Yeah, I cheated :P.
The 00Carter chats are definitely entertaining and it's awesome how the ideas just blurt out from everyone. And I have to give props to Rose for making sense of some of our random spew and forming the outlines as we go.
LMAO thank you. That is NOT easy. :P
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I have a question.
If you could turn one of your stories into a movie, which would you chose and who would you like to act in it? The reason I ask is that I often think Song For The Undead would be an awesome movie, with the zombies and all the survival stuff :)
Awww thank you!
Like Julie, I'd say it'd be better as a TV series, because of the way we broke up the story.
I have NO idea who we'd use for who lol. I know for Riley, I always had the image of Kristen Bell when I first created her. I don't know if that still fits though cause she's changed a lot throughout the story. Maybe Shane West as Nick, I could see that. The one I wouldn't want to swap at all though is Brian. I just can't see anyone else as him lol.
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For a complete opposite question from the one I asked last night, what are some of the funniest scenes or stories you have ever read or written?
Do you have any favorite lines you've written/read or scenes you've written/read that stand out in your mind?
Do you tend to write a lot of comedic scenes and read a lot of comedies in general?
I don't read comedies that often. Not that I don't like them, it's just not many people write them and write them well for that matter. I'm really picky with them LOL. A lot of the ones I like are old school, like Mig Witch Project LOL. (I'm sure Julie has the link for that somewhere). A couple of recent ones would be "Just One Kiss" or people's submissions for "1000 Ways To Kill Nick Carter" and "Revenge of the Slaughtered". I see those as black humor which I tend to love LOL.
As for scenes I've written...prob ably this one where Kevin's doing the turtle dance and singing Carmen Sandiego in 00Carter LOL. Or where Nick accidentally sets off a machine gun bra and destroys half a laboratory in the same story LOL. Many of my humor scenes are usually in angsty stories though to try and lighten the mood.
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00Carter is one of those stories I'd seen on most recent a lot, never clicked on it because I wasn't sure...but one day I just went "what could be bad about a story where Nick's a secret agent?"
I'm so glad I decided to read it because its one of my favorites. I adore that story! It's hilarious and has some serious moments, but I laugh so hard at a lot of the jokes. I really enjoy it!
Aww thanks Tracy! I feel like that story for me is an example of writing because you love it not cause others love it LOL. Cause I think we laugh at it more than most people do lol. I'm definitely glad you enjoy it.
Aww, thanks, Tracy! To be honest, it's probably not a story I would ever click on either LOL; I wasn't even sure about writing it when Rose originally suggested it, but I'm glad I did. It's not for everyone, but I love it. I'm glad you gave it a try and found it worth reading! We just started working on the next episode, so hopefully we'll have some updates before too long.
I have this tendency of talking you into new stories :P LMAO. Cause if I remember right you protested Undead at first too. :D
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how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?
I got started at 13, I was young LOL. I found it through some fan site which eventually led me to fanfiction.net . I was more of a writer cause I already wrote a lot in my free time, just original fiction back then. (Which I have somewhere and is painfully bad I'm sure LOL). Once I discovered fanfiction I started using my ideas for the Boys, which is why a lot of my early fics were AU. They were literally just substituted in for my OCs lol.
I feel like I've changed a lot since then. I don't collaborate with everyone I talk to anymore, and I don't want to. My stories are usually NOT AU that often these days lol. I write the Boys as accurately as I can and research everything to hell when back then I didn't bother. I'm still more of a writer than a reader but I read a lot less than I used to. I've gotten pickier :P.
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Oh yeah it was 2001. I remember I think I was still in high school when they banned RP fics. I was heartbroken. I took a break from fanfic and BSB until 2009 when I saw Nick in People magazine. As soon as I saw him, everything came back. It was as if I'd never stopped lol
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So I was right for once, go me! lol
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I got started into fanfic when I was 13 by clicking on a "stories" section of a BSB fansite. I thought it was fan encounters but it turned out to be fictional stories about the boys. I read some of them and then decided I could write my own, as I had always been something of a storyteller. (My friends and I always used to make up ridiculous stories and BSB just got inserted into them as we became fans of them) Of course it was horrid and a self-insert and it wasn't even split out by chapter. I just kept adding onto the end of the document. I emailed the girl of the first site I'd found to ask her if she would host me, and she did (even though she told me I would have to split it into chapters first for easier updating, lol)
Eventually I made my own site, then I posted on FF.net. When they removed RPF stories off of FF.net I stopped writing in that fandom and focused more on writing Gundam Wing fanfic when I was in High School. I kept up reading a few BSB stories (like Oreos) but didn't really write my own. When Unbreakable came out I decided to try writing again, found AC and the rest is history, as they say lol.
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I actually got started writing fanfic first. Carried around a notebook in high school that my friend and I would write parts (I wasn't allowed to write scenes with me and vice versa) it was fun so when I started CYDMR my friend convinced me to give writng an actual fanfic by myself. I did and I knew there were other writers out there, I didn't read much fanfic until I started my awards turned review site.
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Yes, Brian is hotter than Mark. Hmm, for Jordan what about Zachary Quinto?
I could see that. Poor Sylar with bot flies in his brain LOL.
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how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?
I discovered fanfic during the summer of 1999. I'd been a fan since early 1998, but the Millennium era was when I really got obsessed and started looking BSB up on the internet and stuff, and that's when I stumbled onto my first fanfic. I read a ton of it that summer; I couldn't get enough.
I originally couldn't see myself writing it at all, but that changed when I got an idea for a story and gave it a shot, sometime over that winter of 99/00. I started one story that I never finished, but then later rewrote from scratch and posted (Years of Grace), but the first story that I finished (Heartache) I got hosted on a site in I think February of 2000... and by the end of April, I had started my site and was writing a chapter a day and a novel a month LOL. Back then, I read and wrote in equal amounts - a LOT of both!! We still had dial-up internet, and my mom was always on my case about tying up the phone line, so I did a lot of copying and pasting of stories into Word to save and take back to my own computer to read offline.
Nowadays I'm probably more of a writer than a reader. I do still enjoy reading fanfics, but I mostly just follow a select few in-progress fics and read the updates on them when they're posted. I don't find myself seeking them out as often as I used to. If I scroll past a summary on the Most Recent page that catches my eye, I'll check it out, but I don't find myself actively searching for new stories to read. I think about writing a lot, though, and try to do at least a little every day (or every weekend, during the school year).
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I don't read comedies that often. Not that I don't like them, it's just not many people write them and write them well for that matter. I'm really picky with them LOL. A lot of the ones I like are old school, like Mig Witch Project LOL. (I'm sure Julie has the link for that somewhere).
Mig Witch Project! http://www.angelfire.com/bc/BackstreetComedy/Blair.html
People who have not read this story before are probably going to think it's very stupid, but I was literally ROTFLMAO reading this story the first time I came across it (back in about 2000, from the days when Blair Witch Project parodies were still relevent LOL - it's an oldie!!), and it still amuses me. It's one of those humor stories that definitely makes fun of the Boys a lot.
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I have this tendency of talking you into new stories :P LMAO. Cause if I remember right you protested Undead at first too. :D
I didn't protest; I just thought we were joking until I realized we weren't LOL. But I love how we can take a joke and turn it into an actual story!
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I didn't protest; I just thought we were joking until I realized we weren't LOL. But I love how we can take a joke and turn it into an actual story!
LOL oh that's right. Hey, it's a gift!
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I could see that. Poor Sylar with bot flies in his brain LOL.
LOL, Sylar was a character I loved in Heroes, even though he was the bad guy :)
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how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?
I didn't know what fanfic was until 2007 (shocking!). I joined a Take That site and noticed a stories section. Before clicking on it, I thought it was fan encounters and so was surprised when I began reading one, which turned out to be a romance story where she'd met Gary Barlow in a posh hotel and had a fling. It was only as I got more into the story that I realised it was fiction. How naive was I!
So after reading that story and a load of others, I decided to have a go at my own. It was crap and I'm glad that site has been deleted so that no one can see how crap some of my stuff was.
When BSB released Unbreakable, I couldn't get enough of them and decided to have a go at a BSB story (Forces of Nature was my first BSB story and yes, it's a self-insert and very predictable lol). Me and my friend had a site (now deleted) where we posted stories about whoever we wanted, and we also had different sections for talking about whatever we wanted (usually hot men). A girl joined the site and said to check out Absolute Chaos for lots of really good BSB fanfic. So I did and am so glad :)
I was more of a reader when I first got into fanfics, then seemed to balance it out between reading and writing.
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LOL, Sylar was a character I loved in Heroes, even though he was the bad guy :)
Me too! I like when he showed his soft side LOL.
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I actually got started writing fanfic first. Carried around a notebook in high school that my friend and I would write parts (I wasn't allowed to write scenes with me and vice versa) it was fun so when I started CYDMR my friend convinced me to give writng an actual fanfic by myself. I did and I knew there were other writers out there, I didn't read much fanfic until I started my awards turned review site.
That actually sounds really fun, not being allowed to write the scenes with yourself in them! Back when I wrote exclusively self inserts, my friends would sometimes get upset with the situations I put them in, lol. But of course, Nick and Steph always got their happy ending, lmao.
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The Notebook (as we called our first fanfic) was a cheesy cliched as could be! I mean, Brian and Lore met in an elevator but they were too shy to do anything so AJ and Amanda and Nick FORCED the elevator to stop trapping the duo inside so they would talk. LOL it was BAAAAAAAD.
The whole story started one sugar crazed night when I don't know what I was doing (probably making up voices for the Barbie game her younger sister was playing) and somehow I started talking about talking in my sleep. So the VERY first line of the story was "Did you know Lore talks in her sleep?" And I think Nick said it to Brian?? LOL horrible. Then we decided to go past pure hook up humor and add some drama, I think when we finished it Lore had been in a car accident with a semi (thanks Amanda) and we were all moving into one house so that Brian could take care of her. AJ and Amanda had some weird drama going on too.... it was BAAAAAD. But so very fun to write!
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I had notebooks for fanfic in high school I carried around. I wrote a story about Nick and Brian getting lost in a jungle, Brian ended up being like Tarzan...loinc loth and everything.
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I have a question!
What's your favourite review/best piece of feedback you've received?
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Wow... that is a good question, but I don't even know that I have an answer to it! I wish there was one review that really stood out in my mind, but I guess it's better that I don't, because the reason I don't is that there are quite a few people who have made my day/night with their feedback over the years. A lot of you that will read this are among them! Steph, I was just looking at my reviews for the end of By My Side to see if one stood out and saw a really sweet one from you. :)
BMS was the first place I went to look because the people who stuck with that story through that many chapters were a dedicated bunch! I have never been as attached to a story as I was to Broken and BMS, so to get that kind of feedback throughout, but especially upon finishing the series, meant the world to me!! I think my favorite comments about those stories now are when people tell me they've reread them - because holy shit, that's a lot of chapters to reread! - and when people tell me they watch real life Nick for a limp because it seemed so real LOL. And by "people" I mostly mean @JennayHeartNick/FrickFrackGirl Jen, because I've heard both comments from her more than once! LOL She has been very good to me!!
A recent standout is the review Mare left for Chapter 88 of Curtain Call during the reading challenge. That chapter was definitely a big moment in the story and one that I had to exercise some creativity to pull off, and it meant a lot to me when she told me it was beautiful, instead of cheesy LOL. So thanks, Mare!
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Me too! I like when he showed his soft side LOL.
Yeah, I liked it when he showed his soft side too, but I also liked how evil he could be, lol
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I have a question!
What's your favourite review/best piece of feedback you've received?
Great question! I'll have to have a look and see, then come back and answer :)
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What's your favourite review/best piece of feedback you've received?
I have three that I was able to narrow it down to.
The first is for a story that's on hold till I rework it. I got it from Julie on my story "Born To Be".
Interesting start! I like it so far... and I'm anxious to read more! I like your use of description and the way you word things, especially in the prologue. Just watch your tenses... you tend to switch tenses, even in mid-sentence, and it takes away from the flow of the writing. But going back to the descriptions, I like the two suns and the purple grass and the blue leaves and everything... how it all mimicks our world, but surreal and just "off."
I like it so much cause it's what really brought my old tense issues to my attention. It's what helped me change my writing cause she was awesome enough to tell me but in a nice way. So because I feel my writing grew a lot at that moment, it's one of my faves lol.
The other two that as I'm looking through to answer this question are from RMTW. (Yeah I can only narrow it down to three LOL).
Reviewer: McKelly Signed [Report This]
Date: 06/11/10 09:28 pm Title: Chapter Two
Girl, I am so impressed with each chapter I read. I can't wait for more. You're writing is reminiscent of a few of the greats from the "glory days"...which is what initially invited me into the world of fanfic. I get lost with each paragraph I read, seriously. You're so inside his head and the words are so vivid. I felt like I was right along side him as he went through the motions. Very curious as to what you have in store. Good fucking work, woman!
This made me smile big because I remember what it was like in the "glory days" of fanfic and how much I looked up to the old school writers back in the day. So this was just a huge compliment and I remembered it enough to try and find it LOL.
Reviewer: Joanna Signed [Report This]
Date: 06/29/10 08:18 pm Title: Chapter Two
I was so excited to get through work today to read the next chapter, and I have to say, I love it! I love the relationship between Nick and Brian, and the slight jump into the future. The imagery is amazing, I love it! Question, have you ever considered writing professionally?
It's short but the fact she asked if I ever considered writing professionally is just huge! Hearing that, is just something that flatters me to the point I never know how to quite answer lol. I mean obviously the answer is yes but it just feels amazing to have it confirmed like that.
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I'm not sure I could ever get another review that tops this one: I literally teared up when I got this because it meant so much to me.
Reviewer: Mare Date: 08/18/10 10:56 pm Title: Chapter 2
I read your first chapter shortly after you posted it, but didn't want to leave a review because I wasn't sure if I was going to commit to reading it and I don't like to review and then disappear. You know how I am about female characters/leads/ sexual plotlines etc... but the first chapter intrigued me enough to tell everyone else about it and then want to read the second. You've got a great beginning to your story. I know you mentioned you haven't written anything like this before, You should. It seems like a very natural fit for you. I'm looking forward to your next chapter. :O) I will admit I might skip some of the sex scenes or sexual type things though if and when they happen, but the actual storyline is nice and refreshing! Yay to you!
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Wow... that is a good question, but I don't even know that I have an answer to it! I wish there was one review that really stood out in my mind, but I guess it's better that I don't, because the reason I don't is that there are quite a few people who have made my day/night with their feedback over the years. A lot of you that will read this are among them! Steph, I was just looking at my reviews for the end of By My Side to see if one stood out and saw a really sweet one from you. :)
BMS was the first place I went to look because the people who stuck with that story through that many chapters were a dedicated bunch! I have never been as attached to a story as I was to Broken and BMS, so to get that kind of feedback throughout, but especially upon finishing the series, meant the world to me!! I think my favorite comments about those stories now are when people tell me they've reread them - because holy shit, that's a lot of chapters to reread! - and when people tell me they watch real life Nick for a limp because it seemed so real LOL. And by "people" I mostly mean @JennayHeartNick/FrickFrackGirl Jen, because I've heard both comments from her more than once! LOL She has been very good to me!!
A recent standout is the review Mare left for Chapter 88 of Curtain Call during the reading challenge. That chapter was definitely a big moment in the story and one that I had to exercise some creativity to pull off, and it meant a lot to me when she told me it was beautiful, instead of cheesy LOL. So thanks, Mare!
I never thought or called anything in that story cheesy! Remember I skipped the Valentine's Day chapter lol it was really beautiful! :) you're welcome!
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I'm not sure I could ever get another review that tops this one: I literally teared up when I got this because it meant so much to me.
Reviewer: Mare Date: 08/18/10 10:56 pm Title: Chapter 2
I read your first chapter shortly after you posted it, but didn't want to leave a review because I wasn't sure if I was going to commit to reading it and I don't like to review and then disappear. You know how I am about female characters/leads/ sexual plotlines etc... but the first chapter intrigued me enough to tell everyone else about it and then want to read the second. You've got a great beginning to your story. I know you mentioned you haven't written anything like this before, You should. It seems like a very natural fit for you. I'm looking forward to your next chapter. :O) I will admit I might skip some of the sex scenes or sexual type things though if and when they happen, but the actual storyline is nice and refreshing! Yay to you!
Thanks, Tracy! I am glad that meant so much to you. Everything I said is still true. You should write some more suspense! You have a knack for it :)
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This is a great question! I'm going to have to wait until I'm on my computer to answer because there's a lot of stories I need to go through lol I will say as a general thought, the feedback that sticks with me the most is when people get what I was trying to do or find something insightful that I might not have been going for. There are a lot of people who give awesome feedback! Pammy whammy and Sam are two that immediately come to mind but also a lot of you guys as well. It all makes me smile! :-)
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Rose, I am offended that my random rambling reviews for RMTW where I walk out naked, did not make the cut! :( lol
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LOL Awwww but I loved those too!
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I never thought or called anything in that story cheesy! Remember I skipped the Valentine's Day chapter lol it was really beautiful! :) you're welcome!
Oh no, I know! I just worried that it could be taken as cheesy, so I'm glad you didn't think so. :)
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What's your favourite review/best piece of feedback you've received?
I have three that I was able to narrow it down to.
The first is for a story that's on hold till I rework it. I got it from Julie on my story "Born To Be".
Interesting start! I like it so far... and I'm anxious to read more! I like your use of description and the way you word things, especially in the prologue. Just watch your tenses... you tend to switch tenses, even in mid-sentence, and it takes away from the flow of the writing. But going back to the descriptions, I like the two suns and the purple grass and the blue leaves and everything... how it all mimicks our world, but surreal and just "off."
I like it so much cause it's what really brought my old tense issues to my attention. It's what helped me change my writing cause she was awesome enough to tell me but in a nice way. So because I feel my writing grew a lot at that moment, it's one of my faves lol.
Aww, thanks, Rose! You know I'm not someone who usually dishes out concrit without being asked, but I guess I must have known you would take it the right way. Classic example of just that one element taking away from an otherwise beautifully-written story (in my Grammar Nazi mind, anyway), and the fact that you were able to fix that about your writing has made it flow even more beautifully. I wish everyone would actually listen and learn from things like that when they're pointed out to them!
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Aww mare. You're making me blush here. I am writing suspense but it's science fiction. Weird World...I am having fun with it. Other than that I haven't had any ideas for a new suspense. I loved writing it. Right now I've been working on the new one, which I might be posting if I ever come up with a title.
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^ good to know you're writing suspense still. Good luck with your new story!
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Oh no, I know! I just worried that it could be taken as cheesy, so I'm glad you didn't think so. :)
Nope, not at all! lol :)
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I finally did the review thing lol
I have about 78 stories on the site so it was hard going through them to find some that stood out to me. There are a lot of reviews that really make me smile. Actually every review does that, even the YAY! or update!!! etc.. so it was really hard to pick. I went with these three though.
This was from Refuse concerning Shadow Woods because she had the exact reaction I was hoping for and she was also one of the very first people I read when I started writing fanfic so to see a random review from her made me smile.
Reviewer: Refuse (Signed) · Date: 05/19/06 09:16 pm · On: Chapter 25
Spec-Tac-U-Lar. :) You had me guessing what the heck was going on until right at the sit down talk with "Kevin" and "Casper". Right when they started talking it hit me. *smacks forehead* He's battling the choice of life and death... Through the whole story... WoW.
Excellent writing. Fantastic delivery. What a trip! It took me a while to get back to the site and finish reading it, but it was TOTALLY worth it. *thumbs up*
Awesome finishing line by Nick. It summed up the story and the fight that was fought quite well.
"Life."
This one is for The Lion's Den, which out of all the things I wrote, I lacked the most confidence in. It was the only one that featured Howie as the lead and from the start I thought it was terrible but this one gave me some confidence, again because it was someone I looked up to when I first started out.
Reviewer: Chaos (Anonymous) · Date: 07/15/04 04:46 pm · On: Epilogue
I think this is my favorite story from you yet, Mare (and you know I love the Mizpah trilogy...aw heck, I've loved everything I've read from you. I love conspiracies and this was a whopper--but a believable whopper. Very cool!
This last one I picked because it was for one of my Original Fiction stories and of course I find those the absolute scariest ones to post. So to see someone I admire, take the time to even read it, made me smile!
Reviewer: RokofAges75 (Signed) · Date: 03/25/08 05:35 pm · On: A Day in the Life of a Lima Bean
The title of this one attracted my attention, and I thought it was great, Mare! So many of the situations poor Lima had to go through in a single school day are things that I and probably most girls could relate to... dealing with the popular girls... the hot guy who can smile at you and make your whole day even though you know you have no chance with him... the fear that you're gonna bleed through your pants before you can take care of it, or that you smell cause you're sweating so bad LOL. What a nice little nostalgia trip back to high school there. =P
The end, though... wow. I wasn't expecting it to end that way. I thought it was really sad, but I liked it because it was deep, and it was unexpected. Fantastic job!!
It's funny because looking back on some of these, like The Lion's Den it was before you could respond to your feedback on the site so all of the reviews for this one were left unanswered. I can't even tell you how tempted I was to go back and respond now but people would be like, wtf? When they get a random, thanks for the review, sorry it took me a while to get back to you! 8 years later lmao
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Here's another question:
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
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Aww, thanks, Mare!
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
I read "Whatever the Night May Bring," which was already finished, for the reading challenge. Other stories that I've been following as they're updated are:
Borrowed Time
Scattered Pictures
Running Up That Hill
Here We Stand
Divine Intervention
Walked Out of My Dreams
Last Christmas
Save a Prayer
Fracture
Brian Potter and the Malevolent Musician
On Nightingale Hill
Of those, "Save a Prayer" is the only one that's finished. I'd say about half of them update pretty regularly, and the other half don't.
The authors should know I'm reading because I review regularly, although I will say, with the last two, I'm kind of in the "Wait for it to be finished so you don't have to keep refreshing your memory" mindset because they're only updated once in a blue moon LOL.
As for why I clicked on them... some of them, like Brian Potter, just attracted my attention with their banner and summary and sounded like something I'd like. Borrowed Time is another one that had my name written all over it LOL. Others, like Nightingale Hill, came highly recommended, even if they weren't something I'd normally check out. The rest are written by friends and favorite authors of mine, and as long as I'm enjoying it, I'd read anything by those people!
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Finally getting around to doing the review question.
From Save A Prayer
Reviewer: Rose (Signed) · Date: 10/19/11 01:25 am · On: Chapter 23
Awww I'm sad to see this one end, but it was a fabulous story! I enjoyed every bit of it. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. I'm glad Howie was able to keep his leg, at least one good thing came out of it. (Other than the fact NKOTB is now jungle chow LMAO).
Reviewer: RokofAges75 (Signed) · Date: 08/18/11 10:46 pm · On: Chapter 16
OMG!!!!!! First I thought the grossness was just going to be Nick getting sick from the water... poor Nick! I was still there was a leopard in the cave to eat Jordan, but what you did to him was totally better! You actually succeeded in grossing me out with the bot fly larva - WIN!!! I loved it!!! Sad you probably won't be updating in the next week, but this was a good stopping place!
Reviewer: Mare (Signed) · Date: 08/18/11 07:15 pm · On: Chapter 16
Aw maybe that explains all the bad singing! Maybe all the New Kids are infested with maggots on the brain! LOL That chapter WAS gross! The idea of Nick poking around Jordan's brain digging out maggots was pretty entertaining. Poor Guys, I can only imagine the smell and RIP Jordan now you can go on to heaven with the rest of your bandmates and entertain all the deaf people with your crappy songs! *smiles innocently*
From Games
Reviewer: Mare (Signed) · Date: 11/08/10 05:58 pm · On: Chapter 8
aww yes, Dean. The world would miss that Nick Carter dude lol Loved the bit about Brian being forced to whore out the Wylee stuff. I am worried for Nick and AJ. Ack! Can't wait to see what happens next! As usual great chapter and awesome job with Sam and Dean. You'd never know that you only started getting into Supernatural. It's coming very easy for you!
Reviewer: Sakabelle (Signed) · Date: 11/13/10 06:02 pm · On: Chapter 9
Ack, AJ! I hope Sam and Dean get to them soon! This is really good, Steph! You do a great job of sucking the reader in. I feel like I am right there with them, playing the game. Great chapter, as usual! Also, LOL at AJ enjoying Twilight. That was cute.. I could totally see him liking it, haha.
Reviewer: FrickFrackGirl (Signed) · Date: 10/16/10 01:26 pm · On: Chapter 2
You have no idea how excited I am for this story!! I am a HUGE BSB AND SuperNatural fan!!! I've only read one other cross-over story with the two and am super excited to read this!!! Great start and premise for the story! I love it so far!! Can't wait to read more!
ps. My ultimate dream is Nick and Jensen...hehe. ..:p Yes, I'm a Nick and Dean girl!!!
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Here's another question:
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
If I'm reading something then the author will know because I leave reviews. Sometimes I'll wait for a story to be completed because there are a few stories I love and have been waiting for what seems like forever for updates.
Stories I've read this year would be :
Whatever The Night May Bring
Scattered Pictures
Secrets of the Heart
Infidelity
Fight Me
Severed Identities
Running Up That Hill
Here We Stand
Song For The Undead
Weird World
I clicked to read them because I liked the summary and because they are by authors I like.
There are other stories I'm reading, but haven't been updated for so long, like On Nightingale Hill, On The Rails, Brian Potter, Guilty Roads, Walked Out of my Dreams and there might be a couple more but I can't think of them right now.
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Just like Julie and Steph, if I'm reading the story the author knows because I leave reviews unless the author doesn't bother to check lol
Stories i'm reading or have read this year
Curtain Call - for the AC challenge
Save a Prayer
Running Up That Hill
Here We Stand
The Other Side of Nick Carter
Plus any one shot challenge I issued within the last year and some random shorts from people. Don't ask me to remember the names of those! LOL You know who you are!
Stories I'd like to read if the authors ever decided to continue updating them:
Guilty Roads
Divine Intervention
History Repeating
On The Rails
:P
I clicked on them because of the summary and they all have elements in them that make me want to continue reading. (strictly about the boys, action/adventure/ Non AU/ No female lead) On The Rails being the exception to the rule. I probably would have never read it if I weren't judging it but once I did, I was hoooked!
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Okay I feel sufficiently guilty now lmao.
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Good! Mission accomplished! ;) lol
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I forgot to add History Repeating and Divine Intervention to my list, I would love to see those ones updated too. And for one I'm currently reading, The Other Side of Nick Carter is something that should've been on my list.
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What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Like for me and food, whenever we talk about where to eat, no matter what people suggest, chinese food always wins in the end for me. Nothing beats it except maybe the Cheesecake Factory but since I don't live anywhere near one of those... chinese it is, and yes, I had chinese food today lol
Same idea for fanfic, if I had to pick any other genre or action/suspense, I would go for action/suspense every time. I just feel like they move faster, there are rarely if ever, a ton of filler chapters in a good suspense story and it's really the only genre I can think of where I am willing to read an entire story in one sitting, If it's a good story! Same with writing. I move so much faster when writing a suspense than any other genre. My fingers move with the action of the scene.
So, what about you guys?
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Another question:
Well not really a question, more like a statement lol Can you tell i'm bored? It figures that no one is around. :(
This is the sentence:
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
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What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
You all know mine - DRAMA!!! I like a variety of genres, and my favorite stories are multi-genre - usually drama with a hint of romance or suspense or maybe even both, as well as comic relief. But except for humor stories, my favorites all have drama in common. In a good drama, you get to know the characters on a deeper level, and you feel for them and whatever they're going through. I like stories that are cathartic and get an emotional response out of me.
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Sorry I haven't been on to answer questions, I've been quite busy today. Haven't been on twitter since this morning. Anyways. Here is my list:
Stories that haven't been updated in a long time but I'm keeping track of:
Divine Intervention by Rose
Walked Out Of My Dreams by Rose
Guilty Roads by rokofages75
00Carter
Bad Romance by Pengi
The Time Watcher by Pengi
In Progress Stories:
Eyes Open by myconfession, BiLittrell
Song For The Undead by Rose and RokofAges75
Running Up That Hill by sakabelle
Severed Identities by PurpuraLipstic k
Unwinding Truth by Carter-Orange and PurpuraLipstic k
Borrowed Time by Pengi
I'm sure There's stories I'm forgetting, but haven't been updated in so long that I can't remember what they are.
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Here's another question:
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
I just posted my list but I forgot to answer this part.
I click on stories that sound interesting by the summary, or if it is an author I've consistently enjoyed in the past...then I will read it.
I plan on sticking with them until they are finished :)
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What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Well food wise I always turn to ice cream or something sweet.
Same goes for fanfic. I usually go for the group stories that give me the warm fuzzies, like a story set back in the day....or a story where they all take care of each other like brothers. I love stories that make me feel good. If I had to pick a genre it would be suspense though.
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
I wish people would give Weird World a chance, because although it has a female lead, (well two) she isn't the sole focus of the story. It is a group story with all five BSB....set around the Millennium era. It has science fiction, suspense and adventure with a hint of romance, but romance is not the focus.
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What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
This took me a minute since I never settle too long in a genre, I go through phases LOL. I'd say drama. Because although it's mixed in with other genres almost all my stories have drama mixed in. Anything that taps into real emotion will do it for me.
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FML okay yes, again, I feel guilty. But I'm writing more again! LOL.
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Another question:
Well not really a question, more like a statement lol Can you tell i'm bored? It figures that no one is around. :(
This is the sentence:
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
Sci-fi a chance, both in writing and reading. There's some great sci-fis out there if you dig enough (Yesterday's Blue Skies comes immediately to mind), where the Boys are still our Boys and are incredibly well written. And I wish more people wrote it cause I love to read it LOL.
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*side eyes Rose* well....ok. I guess that will do ;)
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Oh my God.... with my last full week of work and packing in my free time, moving is killing me answering questions. I know Hannah will agree since she just arrived in Nashvegas. That'll be me next Saturday!
Will try to get around to answering questions tomorrow!
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Another question:
Well not really a question, more like a statement lol Can you tell i'm bored? It figures that no one is around. :(
This is the sentence:
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
I'm having a tough time answering this one, so I'm just going to respond with a couple of follow-up questions LOL.
1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
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1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
If the summary doesn't catch my attention that is usually one thing. Grammar....I don't read slash or straight romance. I like romance if it is mixed with something, like comedy or suspense....an d has interesting characters. I don't really like stories laden with sex scenes either, one or two are ok but I don't like visuals.
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
Prime example of this was 00Carter. I had seen it pop up several times while roaming most recent but I didn't know if it was something I would read. I was reading a lot of suspense and angst at the time so action/adventure didn't seem interesting.
However I was really bored and came across the story, looked at it and just clicked on it for the hell of it. I was pleasantly surprised, it is really funny and clever, I love how there are "episodes" like it is a TV series. There's so much I could say about 00Carter, but I'm really glad I gave it a shot because I am open to reading all kinds of genres now. You don't know what you'll get unless you click! ;)
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What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Like for me and food, whenever we talk about where to eat, no matter what people suggest, chinese food always wins in the end for me. Nothing beats it except maybe the Cheesecake Factory but since I don't live anywhere near one of those... chinese it is, and yes, I had chinese food today lol
Same idea for fanfic, if I had to pick any other genre or action/suspense, I would go for action/suspense every time. I just feel like they move faster, there are rarely if ever, a ton of filler chapters in a good suspense story and it's really the only genre I can think of where I am willing to read an entire story in one sitting, If it's a good story! Same with writing. I move so much faster when writing a suspense than any other genre. My fingers move with the action of the scene.
So, what about you guys?
Mmm Chinese is my favourite too...and chocolate :)
As for fanfic comfort food, probably drama mixed in with something else, like action or suspense.
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Another question:
Well not really a question, more like a statement lol Can you tell i'm bored? It figures that no one is around. :(
This is the sentence:
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
I really wish more people would give Unwinding Truth a chance because it's an AU, action, adventure and sci-fi type of story set in a post-apocalyptic world and we're enjoying writing it :)
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I'm having a tough time answering this one, so I'm just going to respond with a couple of follow-up questions LOL.
1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
1. If the summary was really awful and contained spelling errors, or had something like "summary coming later".
2. On The Rails. I remember reading the summary and thinking it wouldn't be for me, the idea of a travelling musician and a mute piano player just didn't do anything for me. But I loved her other story On Nightingale Hill and was bored one day, so I gave it a go and was hooked!
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2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
Prime example of this was 00Carter. I had seen it pop up several times while roaming most recent but I didn't know if it was something I would read. I was reading a lot of suspense and angst at the time so action/adventure didn't seem interesting.
However I was really bored and came across the story, looked at it and just clicked on it for the hell of it. I was pleasantly surprised, it is really funny and clever, I love how there are "episodes" like it is a TV series. There's so much I could say about 00Carter, but I'm really glad I gave it a shot because I am open to reading all kinds of genres now. You don't know what you'll get unless you click! ;)
Thanks, Tracy! 00Carter is one of the stories I was thinking of in response to Mare's question; I do wish more people gave it a chance, but at the same time, I completely understand why they don't. Honestly, if I weren't writing it, I don't think I would have ever clicked on 00Carter either LOL. It doesn't sound like my kind of story at all, and it has a lot of elements that I know some people don't like - it's AU, it's a crossover, it has a lot of characters, many of whom are female, it has lots of co-authors, it has long chapters, it doesn't get updated consistently, it looks like a James Bond parody, it has a lot of over-the-top, cartoonish humor, etc. Lots of strikes against it. That said, even though I'm obviously biased, I love it and wish that more people appreciated it. It means a lot that you do! :)
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2. On The Rails. I remember reading the summary and thinking it wouldn't be for me, the idea of a travelling musician and a mute piano player just didn't do anything for me. But I loved her other story On Nightingale Hill and was bored one day, so I gave it a go and was hooked!
I really need to read this story sometime. I've heard nothing but amazing things about it, but I was like you - I remember reading the summary when she first started posting it, and even though I knew from reading On Nightingale Hill that it would be well-written, it just didn't interest me. I think at this point, though, I'll probably just wait to see if she finishes it and then go back and read it in its entirety. I'm still waiting for updates on On Nightingale Hill!
Speaking of which, On Nightingale Hill is one of those stories I took a chance on, when I normally wouldn't have. I'm not a big fan of sci-fi, but I'd heard good things about it, so I gave it a try and got sucked in!
Another one would be Between the Lines, which I'd seen nominated for awards and recommended all over the place, but I could never get into it until I literally forced myself to read more than the first chapter, and now it's one of my favorites! Seriously one of the best-written BSB fics I've ever read!
To answer the first part of my question, these are turn-offs for me:
- Improper conventions/formatting or spelling/grammar/punctuation errors
- Overly long summaries that reveal every part of the story and backstory
- Sci-fi/fantasy
- AU
- Crossovers
- Fictional wives/girlfriends/children
- Blatant author self-inserts (especially when the author's picture is in the banner)
- Romance as the main storyline, without interesting subplots/subgenres
- Howie- or Kevin-centered stories
That's not to say I won't read a story if it has one or even more than one of those elements. I've both read and written stories with a lot of those that I've enjoyed. There are always exceptions. In general, though, those are things that make a story seem less appealing to me.
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Yeah but it is so funny because I really love over the top humor lol. I love how outrageous that story is and how exaggerated the characters are.
I also love AU because I write it so much myself.
This made me think about my previous answer, I don't like when the author uses her own picture in the banner either, or self inserts *hangs head in shame* (it's ok I died though)
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Thanks! And LOL, don't feel bad about the self-inserts; I have done self-inserts too (though I've never put myself in a banner and never will! LOL). There's another strike against 00Carter, because Rose and Dee and I, the three ringleaders that sort of organized the whole thing, used ourselves as inspiration for the original three Carter girls - Professor Pearl, Diamond Divine, and Red Jewel. They're definitely exaggerated, romanticized versions of ourselves, obviously LOL, and it was all in good fun, but still. I've done a real self-insert with my name too. Like I said, pretty much everything on that list of turn-offs, I've done myself at one point or another.
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1. Banners with one of the boys & a random girl
Summaries written poorly or too generic
Lots of editing/grammar errors
Boys way out of character
Female leads
Brian/Howie/AJ centered stories
Romance/slash/visuals
NKOTB
The Carter family (as leads)
AUs unless the boys are family or have a brotherly bond like real life
Historical Romances
Stories that do not include all the boys or at least 4/5
Stories where the first chapter is a character list lol
Authors who frequently abandon their stories or do not respond to their reviews
Stories overly bloody & gory
Yeah that's a lot but I make no apologies for my fanfic pickiness. I know what I like and before I answer question 2, 99% of the time I end up being correct.
2. Contrary to what it may seem from reading my list above, I have tried a lot more stories than you'd think. A lot and some for more than a few chapters. I only leave reviews for stories I know I'll commit to but the ones I know I won't because they didn't hold my interest etc... I don't. I wish I always did it that way because I feel bad when I've reviewed a few chapters of things and then disappear. All that being said, the only one story that sticks in my mind as one I actually enjoyed enough to see it through was because On the Rails. I feel like this has been my answer for a few questions now lol but after judging a ton of stories, it was the only in progress one that really had me entertained & interested enough to keep looking for updates. I really hope she goes back to it one day.
There might be others from a long time ago, like back when I did fanfic fun but for now I guess that's the most recent example.
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Yeah I think I've done all of those as well actually. I believe all of us have at one point or another.
And that is really interesting about the female agents! You're making me want to go read the episodes posted already. My favorite was the Disney World one LOL
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Yeah I think I've done all of those as well actually. I believe all of us have at one point or another.
And that is really interesting about the female agents! You're making me want to go read the episodes posted already. My favorite was the Disney World one LOL
Thanks! That's my favorite one too. :)
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I know what I like and before I answer question 2, 99% of the time I end up being correct.
That's why I couldn't really answer your original question about giving certain stories/genres/fandoms a chance. I feel like we're all aware of what we like and don't like, and those preferences were formed based on reading or at least trying to read a variety of stories. Obviously you can't hate sci-fi or romance if you've never tried to read a sci-fi or a romance, or you'd be like the little kid who says he hates spinach and brussel sprouts without having ever tried spinach or brussel sprouts. I don't think any of us are so close-minded that we would claim to dislike something without ever having given it a chance.
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I agree on that, Julie. I always say I don't really like slash. I've tried it but it isn't my cup of tea. But I am down to read just about anything else that grabs my attention.
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I agree too. I have tried every genre and have had lots of practice to know what I like and what I don't like lol
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I also don't want to read stories where the main characters are the children of the boys, or some other relative. I only care about reading BSB stories, whichever genre (apart from slash).
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^ that's a big ditto for me as well lol
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I always end up so behind on questions LOL usually because there's one I need to think about, and then a bunch more pop up!
So I'm playing the catch up game. Again.
First my own question about the reviews.
Reviewer: Mare (Signed) · Date: 09/11/10 09:28 am · On: February Stars
That was a great short story! It had the perfect blend of humor and drama. You really made me feel what Nick was feeling and transported me back to that time. Loved the dialogue as well and I did LOL at the bear/possible Howie fan. Very nicely done! I hope you do branch out and allow yourself to write more non romance like this. You did it justice! :O)
I was really happy to get this review from Mare because she's someone I look up to a lot when it comes to writing brotherly stories about the boys. Everything she said about this story is everything that I feel when I read her work. So to hear it coming from her with regards to something that I wrote was awesome! It gave me the confidence boost I needed to tackle a longer story about the guys and their relationships. (As did a lot of the other feedback on this story)
Reviewer: RokofAges75 (Signed) · Date: 04/08/12 08:50 am · On: Chapter 3
Aww, yay for a semi-happy ending! But has Brian really stopped his shoe-eating addiction?? Only time will tell... You should do a sequel!! LMAO jk. But this story was seriously epic, probably my favorite one yet! You owned this challenge!!
Julie is another author I really look up to, and for her to call Nick's Dirty Kicks epic and that it was her favourite was basically the greatest feeling in the world. I was over the moon to receive that kind of compliment from her.
Reviewer: DaniGiggles (Signed) · Date: 04/21/08 01:10 am · On: Chapter 23
“I hate you.” She joked, staring at him, waiting for him to make a move.
Nick only grinned. “I love you.”
“You’re horrible.” She laughed, the breeze causing her to shiver a little.
“You’re wonderful.” He replied, still staring at her.
Ashleigh didn’t say anything in response, she only watched him as he stared into her eyes.
“Marry me.” He said softly.
OH GOD! LOOOOOVED THIS! You are amazing at this romance writing thing. Jesus, you put me to shame. This scene totally made my heart go a flutter. Fucking awesome chapter. I want Nick to propose to me dammit lol! This was such an incredibly sweet chapter, and I liked how you put in James to show that they haven't forgotten but yet they're trying to move forward with their lives. Very nice touch. Fantastic job Stephanie! I'm grinning like a fool thanks to you ;)
Dani's review on My Happy Ending was another one from someone I looked up to a lot. Her saying that I was amazing at writing romance and that I put her to shame was such a nice compliment to get, because her story Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon is one that I often think about when I'm writing romance. I've always wanted to write a romance story as good and emotional as that one, and I still don't quite think I've succeeded. So yeah, this was another review that I was just like "you're kidding, right?" lol
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
Borrowed Time
Scattered Pictures
Curtain Call
Come Together
Cover Me With Dreams
Where Can We Go From Here
Signal to Noise
Of the ones that are on AC, the authors know I'm reading them. The ones that are on my kindle (aside from Curtain Call) those authors aren't writing anymore, so they don't know lol. I keep falling behind on Borrowed Time, and it's not that I don't love it - very much the opposite. Just as I said in the other thread... I suck at keeping up with anything. I clicked on those ones because they're by authors who have written things I've enjoyed in the past and the premise sucked me in. The old school ones were recommended by multiple people so many times that when Julie converted them for Kindle I decided it was time to finally read some of them.
What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Nick romance! Nick romance that has a LOT of drama and love triangles (preferably with another BSB) and complex emotional situations. Yup. Can't get enough of it. It's always been my favourite genre, and I love stories about the boys and their relationships too, but if I had to pick one for the rest of my life, I'd need to read about Nick having a lot of drama.
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
Nick romance? lol lots of people read that though.
1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
-Blatant self-inserts, complete with the author's picture in the banner
-A poorly written summary. If the summary is structured badly, I probably won't click into the story. If you can't summarize your own words or don't even appear to make the effort to, why should I think that your actual story should be any different? Sorry, I know that's a bit harsh.
-A metric ton of self-promotion will make me not want to read anything you write, no matter how good it is. Arrogance is not attractive.
-...if Nick's doesn't appear to be in it at all. Not gonna lie. LOL.
-Backstreet kids, fictional or real. Not really interested.
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
Life According to Baylee. I started reading it because it had come recommended and I had liked things Kristal had written in the past - her writing style is very quirky and I enjoy her sense of humour. So I gave it a chance and ended up really enjoying it.
Wow that was a very long post lol
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Life According To Baylee is the only story featuring a Backstreet kid that I've read (and I loved it). I think it's a great story because it's not just about Baylee, but has all the boys - apart from Brian - in it.
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Aww thank Steph! I'm flattered my review meant a lot to you :)
I always love when you play catch up. I enjoy reading what everyone has to say lol it is funny that sometimes there are tons of questions to answer and then other times there's nothing lol
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And Steph mentioned Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon. That was another one I read that took me by complete surprise as far as me liking it. And you also mentioned you wish more people would try romance. I think that's a pretty popular genre I just think it might not seem that way because most of the people who actually post in here happen to like non romance. I wish more people posted besides the same few of us just so we could get those differing opinions every once in awhile but not sure how to get the lurkers to actually post. lol
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^Yeah, exactly. That's what I meant, lots of people who post here don't read a lot of romance. It is the most popular genre, but it doesn't seem that way from the regulars here, you know? I wish more of the lurkers would post too!
Ok, I have another question, and it's a fitting one coming from me. Is there any other fandom besides BSB that you've wanted to write in, but haven't yet?
For me, even though BSB in the fandom I've written in the most I'll pretty much try anything. I've never really gotten into writing much anime centered fic (besides Gundam Wing and the occasional Sailor Moon story) because of the language barrier. Most the anime I watch is subtitled, so to write a story in English when I watched the characters on screen speaking Japanese, eh.. it never ended up sounding right when I did try.
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The only other fandom I have written in was Supernatural. I've always wanted to do a Numb3rs crossover with BSB but never did.
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Okay, I'm gonna try to catch up....
Story that I would turn into a movie....
"The Story of Us"
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
"Love This Pain," although it's offline now because I self-published it, so I guess one that is online... The "Fearless" series. I think Lisa and I took a generic idea and did more with it. It's not the typical girls follow a tour story. It's not just people screwing one another's brains out (I admit, "IWBB" was that). I think, even though Nick romance is probably the most popular genre, that a lot of people look down on Nick romance because they think it's all the same. For the most part, maybe they are. I know my first couple of stories were very cheesy, Mary-Sueish, etc. I feel like there's more NKOTB fans that are reading the story than BSB fans, so I wish more BSB fans would give it a shot.
What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Romance, I love romance. There's just some things I can't read, but romance I can because I guess it's relatable.
Turn-Offs for stories.... even though I don't read much...
- Huge blocks of text.
- Horrible banners that either a.) look like a 5 year old got a hold of paint and b.) includes an obvious self-protrait in it.
- It tells the entire plot in the summary.
- Howie or Kevin are the main characters.
- Nick isn't involved.
- Horror or adventure, not really into those genres.
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
Borrowed Time by Hannah.... it's Brian centered, but I love it. I've just got to finish reading it and catch up!
Other fandom?
NKOTB obviously, especially Donnie and Joey.
I've written several NASCAR stories with drivers involved. After MC, I had a NASCAR fan fiction website, that's like AC here, that when I got out of it, friends took it over and it's still up and the biggest NASCAR fan fiction website there is. I tried to get into writing "Friends" fan fiction after the show ended, but just couldn't do it.
I've written other artist in my stories, such as the members of Rascal Flatts, TIm McGraw, Faith Hill and even Ashton Kutcher.
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Here's another question on the same lines as the other fandom thing, for the people who have tried to write real life fics versus others which did you find more difficult because for it's much easier to write about BSB than it was for Supernatural. Maybe because I feel like those characters are just that, characters who someone else totally created from scratch to begin with. I have no idea why that is so difficult for me as opposed to messing with real people and their lives lol
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I actually find that doing real person fic is a lot harder. Which is probably weird for me to say since now, 99% of what I write is real person. But when I was writing a lot of Avatar fic, I found that getting into the heads of the characters and portraying them as believeable was a lot easier because through watching the show, the characters are explained through all angles. Because they're fictional characters, the storyline basically tells us everything we need to know about them, and it helps that Avatar is such a character heavy and emotionally heavy show. So I found it really easy to figure out what a character would do in a particular situation.
With real person fic I find you have to watch interviews and stuff and build their personality around the little bits that are given to you. Obviously a lot of us have been in BSB fandom for a long time, so it's easy to know what the guys are like, but I still feel like there's that element of creating a character in Nick or whoever because he is a real person and because we don't actually know what he's really like. When writing about a character from a show, that character sketch is already laid out for you.
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Ok, I have another question, and it's a fitting one coming from me. Is there any other fandom besides BSB that you've wanted to write in, but haven't yet?
Besides BSB, I've written a few Take That stories, a Twilight one-shot and a Supernatural/BSB crossover. I would love to write some more Supernatural or maybe Doctor Who.
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Here's another question on the same lines as the other fandom thing, for the people who have tried to write real life fics versus others which did you find more difficult because for it's much easier to write about BSB than it was for Supernatural. Maybe because I feel like those characters are just that, characters who someone else totally created from scratch to begin with. I have no idea why that is so difficult for me as opposed to messing with real people and their lives lol
I'm not sure which I found easier, but I certainly enjoyed writing the Winchester brothers in Games :)
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And Steph mentioned Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon. That was another one I read that took me by complete surprise as far as me liking it. And you also mentioned you wish more people would try romance. I think that's a pretty popular genre I just think it might not seem that way because most of the people who actually post in here happen to like non romance. I wish more people posted besides the same few of us just so we could get those differing opinions every once in awhile but not sure how to get the lurkers to actually post. lol
That's a story I want to read, but as it's incomplete and hasn't been updated for over 3 years, I don't want to start it and end up hooked.
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Here's another question:
What are some of the things you have read within the last year? What made you click on it and did you stick with it or plan on sticking with it until it's finished? Is it updated frequently? Does the author know you're reading it?
Let's see...
Chronos Project - for the AC challenge
Scattered Pictures
Guilty Roads
Secrets of the Heart
Running Up That Hill
Maybe Tomorrow
Save a Prayer
Fracture
The Archangels
Last Christmas
I'm behind on a lot of these lol, but I plan on reading to catch up when I get a moment too. The only ones that are finished are Save a Prayer, and Chronos Project right now. Some of these (like Save a Prayer) are just my kind of story, the Boys, gross things, and lots of action, or bromance. Others are written by my favorite authors and I know I usually love what they write.
When I read something, the authors always know. I review frequently and even if I'm behind I make sure to tell them it's not the story, it's real life getting in the way LOL.
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Thanks! And LOL, don't feel bad about the self-inserts; I have done self-inserts too (though I've never put myself in a banner and never will! LOL). There's another strike against 00Carter, because Rose and Dee and I, the three ringleaders that sort of organized the whole thing, used ourselves as inspiration for the original three Carter girls - Professor Pearl, Diamond Divine, and Red Jewel. They're definitely exaggerated, romanticized versions of ourselves, obviously LOL, and it was all in good fun, but still. I've done a real self-insert with my name too. Like I said, pretty much everything on that list of turn-offs, I've done myself at one point or another.
You know though, I don't think they are now the way they were then. They've morphed into their own, I think LOL. And it's really funny since my fave character is none of those...but Emerald lmao, in terms of females. That and I don't think people would've known unless we said it. Self-inserts I can handle, it's blatant ones who have no personality who drive me nuts LOL.
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Speaking of romance, I don't hate it....it is just something I don't read a lot of. I write it myself but just haven't been motivated to finish it. My Nick and Amanda series is AU and I know a lot of people aren't into it, but I enjoy writing it.
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1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
Poorly written summary
The title being Untitled (for now!) - variation of that lol. If you don't know your title, you don't know your story well enough to be posting.
Blatant self-inserts. If it's that obvious, I won't read it. You need to try and hide a little bit that this is your fantasy.
Author's picture in the banner
Romances that don't even sound remotely unique in the summary.
Howie or AJ stories (I've been known to read a Kevin one, but it's rare)
NKOTB
Lots of grammar/spelling errors
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
If We Were a Movie by Honey. It's definitely not my normal type of story LOL. But I knew Kelly was a great writer and I couldn't find anything to read, so I tried it. It's one of my favorite stories now. (See, I don't completely hate romance, I'm just incredibly picky! :P)
Ok, I have another question, and it's a fitting one coming from me. Is there any other fandom besides BSB that you've wanted to write in, but haven't yet?
For awhile I toyed with writing an Inuyasha fanfic, believe it or not LOL. But I never could find a plot I loved enough to ever go for it. I've dabbed in other fandoms and all that, but I've never really stuck to writing them long. Seems like BSB is the only one that holds me LOL.
As for it being harder to write outside of BSB or not, I find it harder. Maybe it's because I like my fics that aren't real person to be more in canon. And I feel like it's harder to keep them in canon than it is BSB. Or maybe because in fanfic outside of real person, they're not my creations so I feel like it's not really mine. I mean yeah BSB are real people not characters I came up with, but I feel like I can add quirks and such based on what we've seen of them. I don't know, I just feel less limited with them LOL.
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That's a story I want to read, but as it's incomplete and hasn't been updated for over 3 years, I don't want to start it and end up hooked.
Yeah, at that point I'd say wait to see if it's ever finished lol
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I don't know that she'll ever finish it unfortunately =\ I still talk to her on Facebook sometimes but she's been really busy with grad school.
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That's a shame, I guess I'll never know how good that story is then :(
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If I could pick up and finish that story, I would! lol but I'd never be able to do it justice. And I want to read it, not write it.
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^ there are so many stories I feel that way about lol
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Ok, I have another question, and it's a fitting one coming from me. Is there any other fandom besides BSB that you've wanted to write in, but haven't yet?
I've never wanted to write in another fandom, except for Harry Potter. I gave that a shot ten years ago, when I started a Marauders story that only got to Chapter 3, and now I'm writing a BSB/HP crossover. But I could never get into reading HP fanfic and don't see myself writing it regularly.
The only other fandom I could see myself ever writing fanfic for is ER. I've never read any, though I know they're out there. I love the characters and content of the show, and there would be a lot of storylines to explore, but again, I don't really see myself actually writing that. I do have an idea for an ER/BSB crossover, though!
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I actually find that doing real person fic is a lot harder.
I don't have enough experience writing the other type of fanfic to know, but I can see how this would be true. A real person has so many more layers and dimensions than even the best of fictional characters, and while that may give you more freedom to take them in different directions, it's also more of a challenge to capture their personality and put it on paper. Like you said, with a fictional character, it's pretty much already laid out for you, and you can take it and run with it.
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2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
If We Were a Movie by Honey. It's definitely not my normal type of story LOL. But I knew Kelly was a great writer and I couldn't find anything to read, so I tried it. It's one of my favorite stories now. (See, I don't completely hate romance, I'm just incredibly picky! :P)
That was a cute story! Kelly's a great example of an author who loves fluffy romance, but knows how to give it a hook that will make it unique. Her characters always have some quirk that makes their love story interesting, whether it's that they're obsessed with movies, have super powers, or have the ill-fitting name of Cinderella because of their white trash parents. When I read romance, I need a little something else to get me interested.
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I love Kelly's stories, I've even got her two OF books on my Kindle app :)
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Being Jamie Baker is great! I bought Serial Hottie for my Kindle, but haven't read it yet. I'm sure it's fantastic too, though! She just has a very engaging writing style.
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I really liked Being Jamie Baker as well :) It was my airplane book this past year, haha. And I lent it to my Grandma to read instead of 50 shades. I'll have to buy Serial Hottie for my Kindle.
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I really liked Being Jamie Baker as well :) It was my airplane book this past year, haha. And I lent it to my Grandma to read instead of 50 shades. I'll have to buy Serial Hottie for my Kindle.
LOL Much more appropriate for Grandma!
I got my mom to read BJB too, and she loved it! She's a middle school librarian, and she even bought a copy of it for the library.
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I liked Being Jamie Baker as well.
Okay going back to my answer of Julie's turn offs question, I mentioned how I read more than I say I do which made me think of this follow up question.
Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends? Did that make sense? lol
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Hmmm... I might want to know if there was a reason they started reading it and stopped. But if it just wasn't their thing, I'd understand. But if it was a major issue with a character being flawed I think I might want to know, so I could correct it. Or if it was a big issue with grammar, but I don't think I have that issue. Some people in 1D fandom stopped reading one of my stories because I was screwing with The Chosen One, but whatever. I can deal with teenies getting upset at my complex emotional situations lol
Yeah, I'm not offended when my writer friends don't read some of my stuff. I don't read everyone's stories and I would never expect anyone to read everything I wrote just because I wrote it. I want people to read my stories because they like my stories, not because they like me.
Although I would also like it if you liked me. lol
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I like you Steph, if that helps! lol
That's how I feel as well. I really wouldn't expect a friend or anyone else for that matter to try to read something I know they wouldn't enjoy. If I know you don't enjoy suspense, I wouldn't expect you to read about Nick getting MINE carved into his skin. And if you did try it, I wouldn't really expect a Yay!! That was awesome! lol
As far as why I stop reading, mostly it has to do with just a lack of interest on my part. I'll usually go about three chapters & if I don't get sucked in, it becomes a pass for me. It's rarely a grammar or editing issue with stuff I click in because for those I usually can tell just based on the summary not to go any further lol
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lol thanks Mare
Yeah I agree, if I make it a few chapters in and I'm not feeling genuinely interested in what's going to happen next or if I don't feel any sort of connection with the characters at all, then I'll probably stop reading.
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I don't want or expect anyone to read my work just because they want to please me. I want them to read because they genuinely enjoy it, and aren't just being nice.
A lot of you don't read all of my work, but I understand why. What I write won't appeal to everyone. You don't have to read.
Same goes for me. There's people I talk to at AC and I haven't really read any of their work, either because I haven't gotten to it yet, or because it didn't interest me. Doesn't mean they're a bad writer :)
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Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends?
Hm, that's a tough one. I would be curious to know whether someone had actually tried reading my story before writing it off as something they wouldn't like. If they did try to read it and didn't like it, I wouldn't take it personally because, unless they told me otherwise, I would assume it had more to do with their preferences than the quality of my writing. I'm confident in my writing ability, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that my writing can convert someone to liking something they never liked before.
It's always fun to get reviews from friends, but I don't expect my friends to read all of my stories. I write enough of a variety of stories that I know they're not all going to appeal to every reader who's ever read one of my stories. I think I'm able to separate my friendships from the reader/writer relationships I have with people. And it goes both ways - I don't read every story my friends write, and I hope they know better than to take it personally. Everyone who's been posting in this thread is a good writer, so it has nothing to do with writing ability. It doesn't matter how well-written a story is; if it doesn't interest me, it doesn't interest me.
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I agree. I think everyone who posts in here are really great writers in general. I have no doubt in my mind, but same here no matter how I feel about you or your writing ability, I'm never going to want to read a story about AJ and Howie having a child with the help of the Spice Girls lol
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I'm never going to want to read a story about AJ and Howie having a child with the help of the Spice Girls lol
LMAO!!!
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That was a cute story! Kelly's a great example of an author who loves fluffy romance, but knows how to give it a hook that will make it unique. Her characters always have some quirk that makes their love story interesting, whether it's that they're obsessed with movies, have super powers, or have the ill-fitting name of Cinderella because of their white trash parents. When I read romance, I need a little something else to get me interested.
She does! I love that about her writing. I need to actually check out her new book. I wasn't even remotely surprised when she made the transition into a published author. She's always had that talent. Her characters are the perfect example of great character driven romance stories.
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I liked Being Jamie Baker as well.
Okay going back to my answer of Julie's turn offs question, I mentioned how I read more than I say I do which made me think of this follow up question.
Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends? Did that make sense? lol
I'm not sure to be honest LOL. I mean I don't take it personally when friends don't read my stories. In fact sometimes I'm surprised when they do. (Like you and Divine Intervention lmao, I was shocked you clicked on that!) I haven't read all of Julie's stories, she doesn't read all of mine, and we're still great friends. It never affected that one bit.
But at the same time, if a person stopped reading because it wasn't their thing, there's nothing I can do to change that. Now if it's something I CAN change (like grammatical errors or something) I want to know. Which was why I was so glad when Julie pointed out some issues a few years ago. Because then I'll make a conscious effort to fix it.
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Here's another question...
Are you the kind of author who writes many different types of stories, or are you the kind of author who has found their niche and usually stays inside it?
I know for me, I pretty much have a story in almost every genre. Lately I've been sitting in more drama/angst but I noticed I go through phases lol. I think the only one I don't actually have a story for is slash. Not because I wouldn't write it (given the right idea I could see myself doing it actually), just I'd never write it for fanfic because in my head I see the Boys as completely straight so I'd never be able to write them otherwise. If I ever wrote a slash romance, it'd be in Original Fiction.
So I'm kind of both. In that I will find a temporary niche and write in it for awhile, but that does change up and I end up writing in all different genres.
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I think I have a niche in my medical dramas with a hint of romance, but I like to step outside that niche and write other things too - horror, suspense, action/adventure, comedy, etc. I like being known for certain types of stories, but at the same time, I don't want to be a Nicholas Sparks type of writer who only writes one kind of story, to the point where they all seem alike. I try to write a variety.
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^^^ Yeah, neither do I. I mean Nicholas Sparks is a decent writer but a lot of his stories seem the same and I'm kinda meh about him.
Side note - I always feel weird spelling Nicholas the "right"/nonBSB way LMAO.
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I think most of my stories tend to fall under the drama/angst category. I have outlined a sci-fi story and have some of it written, but I'm waiting to post until I finish Running Up That Hill. But even that will have a lot of angst in it. I don't really do a lot of fluffy romance either... I usually put my characters through emotional hell whether it's a romance story or not lol. I doubt I would ever write a BSB slash story... but if I did it would be very angsty!
I don't know, really. I guess I just tend to do a lot of drama and angst, but the situations surrounding that drama and angst are widely different... if that makes sense?
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For the record - I'll probably be one of the first to flock to your sci-fi story LOL. :P
Drama/Angst are fun because of the way it causes the characters to really grow and change throughout the novel. To see them rise up against everything and try to face it down. That's how I see it anyway.
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^^^ Yeah, neither do I. I mean Nicholas Sparks is a decent writer but a lot of his stories seem the same and I'm kinda meh about him.
Side note - I always feel weird spelling Nicholas the "right"/nonBSB way LMAO.
LOL I know what you mean.
I have several Nicholas Sparks books, and the first few I read, I enjoyed. But since all subsequent books I've read by him have been basically the same, I don't really see the point in reading any more of his books.
Most published writers have their niche, but most do a better job of changing it up from book to book. Stephen King writes mostly horror set in Maine, but his storylines are all quite different from each other. Jodi Picoult writes books with lawyer characters and legal issues that make you think, but the situations in each are all very different. I guess it's not as easy to change it up when you're basically telling the "boy meets girl and they fall in love in North Carolina" story every time.
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LOL I know what you mean.
I have several Nicholas Sparks books, and the first few I read, I enjoyed. But since all subsequent books I've read by him have been basically the same, I don't really see the point in reading any more of his books.
Most published writers have their niche, but most do a better job of changing it up from book to book. Stephen King writes mostly horror set in Maine, but his storylines are all quite different from each other. Jodi Picoult writes books with lawyer characters and legal issues that make you think, but the situations in each are all very different. I guess it's not as easy to change it up when you're basically telling the "boy meets girl and they fall in love in North Carolina" story every time.
I love Stephen King lol. I wish I could be as creative as he is.
Which... is there any real life author that inspires you?
That's another good question... For me it's Stephen King and Anne Rice, they inspire me heavily. Stephen King has the best storylines, each one is different and his characters are outstanding. Anne Rice, she has amazing characters with depth and quirks and I love them. Plus, ya know, Vampires that don't sparkle LOL.
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I think most of my stories tend to fall under the drama/angst category. I have outlined a sci-fi story and have some of it written, but I'm waiting to post until I finish Running Up That Hill. But even that will have a lot of angst in it. I don't really do a lot of fluffy romance either... I usually put my characters through emotional hell whether it's a romance story or not lol. I doubt I would ever write a BSB slash story... but if I did it would be very angsty!
I don't know, really. I guess I just tend to do a lot of drama and angst, but the situations surrounding that drama and angst are widely different... if that makes sense?
That makes sense. I am kind of the same way where, no matter what genre it is, there is always some kind of drama/angst. Except in comedies, maybe, but even 00Carter has its share of drama. I love writing the emotional stuff.
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I think it is safe to say I've written in almost every genre but slash, historical and fantasy. I am down to try just about everything as you guys have seen from me attempting 95% of the challenges. I'm down to try reading almost everything as well. I love challenging myself with each new story I start, I try to make each one different.
Look at my story list at AC, it is very diverse I think in terms of what I've written in the past 3 years.
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Hrmm first of all, I love the word niche; it ranks up there with shenanigans for me. Random Mare fact lol
I guess my niche is writing about the brotherly bond the guys have although I do branch out and explore that bond in a variety of different genres. I think I've pretty much written every genre with the exception of romance, although I guess one or two of my short stories might be considered romantic minus the presence of an actual girl. For instance the birthday box was about Nick proposing to Lauren but I didn't find it necessary to include her lol
I do think it's important to branch out while still staying true to who you are. Like the people who compete on Project Runway or Top Chef. No matter what the challenges, as long as your style comes through, it'll be successful & yes, I'm catching up on Project Runway at the moment , hence the analogy.
For instance a romance written by me would be different than a romance written by a person who considers that their thing. Just like a cliff hanger for me would be different than a cliffhanger for them, but if challenged to write something suspensful and romantic, both writers if good at what they do, could pull it off. Yes?
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I love Stephen King lol. I wish I could be as creative as he is.
Which... is there any real life author that inspires you?
I would say Stephen King is one of mine too. Not necessarily with his storylines, because except for Undead and various short stories, I haven't written that much horror. But I like his writing style. He writes in third person and is very descriptive. His stories always have a certain atmosphere that he's established. When I started writing Secrets of the Heart, I had just finished rereading 'Salem's Lot, and I can see the influence of SK's writing in the beginning of that story. As I've come back to it this summer, I've been reading more SK books to help myself stay in that style.
JK Rowling is also an inspiration to me, on a personal level as well as in the writing sense. I am not a fantasy writer, but I admire her ability to bring her characters and their world to life with her fantastic description and emotional depth and sense of humor. I wish I could write like her!
Lurlene McDaniel was the first author to really inspire me. She was my favorite from 4th grade, when I first read one of her books, really up until JKR unseated her when I was in high school. I've read more books by her than by any other author, and you can see her influence in my early fanfics especially, but also in more recent stories, like Broken, Curtain Call, Secrets, and even Guilty Roads. Her books are formulaic and fairly cheesy, but I would not be the writer I am today had I not read them over and over again as I was growing up.
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I love Wally Lamb and admire his writing ability. I have so wanted to have the courage to send him my manuscript for Shadow Woods and my dream would be for him to write me back with CC! I also look up unto Jodi Picoult & of course Stephen King! They are all so good at what they do.
I have never read a Nicholas Sparks book & don't ever really plan to. And as much as she makes me laugh, I put Janet Evanovich into that one note category. Once you've read one if those Stephanie Plum stories you've basically read them all lol
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I think it is safe to say I've written in almost every genre but slash, historical and fantasy. I am down to try just about everything as you guys have seen from me attempting 95% of the challenges. I'm down to try reading almost everything as well. I love challenging myself with each new story I start, I try to make each one different.
Look at my story list at AC, it is very diverse I think in terms of what I've written in the past 3 years.
I think that's awesome! The nice part about being a diverse writer is that, even if everything you write isn't going to appeal to everyone, chances are everyone will enjoy at least one story you've written. Whereas writers who have that clear niche and stay inside it may have a large, loyal base of readers, but they're not going to be able to attract other readers who aren't into whatever they like to write.
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Yup, that's why I try to write in different genres a lot. I want to have stories everyone can enjoy, there will always be one or two someone will read.
I used to write just romance but I get bored easily. I have ADD when it comes to writing, so doing different genres helps this problem.
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I do think it's important to branch out while still staying true to who you are. Like the people who compete on Project Runway or Top Chef. No matter what the challenges, as long as your style comes through, it'll be successful & yes, I'm catching up on Project Runway at the moment , hence the analogy.
For instance a romance written by me would be different than a romance written by a person who considers that their thing. Just like a cliff hanger for me would be different than a cliffhanger for them, but if challenged to write something suspensful and romantic, both writers if good at what they do, could pull it off. Yes?
I love the Project Runway analogy! I agree.
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I think that's awesome! The nice part about being a diverse writer is that, even if everything you write isn't going to appeal to everyone, chances are everyone will enjoy at least one story you've written. Whereas writers who have that clear niche and stay inside it may have a large, loyal base of readers, but they're not going to be able to attract other readers who aren't into whatever they like to write.
Yup, that's very true LOL.
I agree with what Mare said, I think your style comes through on whatever you write. A bromance I write is gonna be different from one Mare writes. Like right now actually LOL. A romance I write would be different from one Karah writes. And it's a good thing, because you want your style to be good and consistent no matter what the genre is.
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I was laying in bed when I thought of this question so I got up and put my computer on before I fell asleep and forgot all about it lol That's dedication!
Anyway, since we've been talking about niches and what we think defines who we are as writers, my mind went to an idea for a challenge. To take a fairy tale like The Three Little Pigs for instance and anonymously write our own versions of it and then people would have to guess who wrote what just based on our styles and what we would do to the characters etc... like if I wrote it, I would focus mainly on their brotherly bond as they all fought the evil wolf. If Julie wrote it I'm pretty sure one of them would end up dying of swine flu? If Rose wrote it, one of the pigs would end up as bacon and be eaten by the others, Lore and Steph might have them accidentally transported to another universe, Saka Steph might have the black sheep angsting about the situation, Tracy might have a psycho pig move next door, Karah might have a female pig move in etc... but then after I came to the realization that everyone would say "YAY that sounds like fun!" but no one would actually do it! (besides Tracy and maybe Steph) I figured it would make a pretty great question instead, so here's the question after that big lead up! lmao
Pick a fairy tale that you think best matches up with yourself and your 'niche' and explain why.
I think in my case it would be The Three Little Pigs. You have the brotherly bond. The older one is stubborn and shakes his head at the younger two until he's needed by them at the end to rescue them from the wolf. It's tailor made for me lol
So, what about you guys? For fun you can also name some fairy tales you think other writers would pick as theirs.
And now I can go back to bed lmao I'm such a dorky loser!
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I think mine would be the original version of Cinderella lmfao. You know, where there's pieces of feet being chopped off and the birds plucking out the stepsister's eyes. There's angst cause she's mistreated, there's death cause the father dies lol. I mean sure there's romance but it's more about Cinderella finally getting what she earns LOL.
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Saka Steph might have the black sheep angsting about the situation
It would actually be the little blonde pig
That is a hard question! My mind instantly sort of went to Beauty and the Beast, just because of the super angsty beast who's upset, and there are characters all around him trying to help and fix the situation, but the only one who truly ends up really solving the issue is Belle. And also there's that lighthearted element with the awesome Gaston song (yeah I'm going with the Disney version - because who doesn't love the Gaston song?) and then he ultimately loses. There's also that portion where the two characters from two different worlds end up learning from each other, and that is definitely one of my favourite plotlines in any type of media lol I looove the Romeo and Juliet factor.
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so many to choose from because so many have magic! LOL I keep thinking of one and how it would fit and then another comes to mind, I'll have to think about this longer, not sure if I can find one specifically.
My pigs would be involved in a consipracy theory involving the wolf somehow, and the wolf might not be the bad guy but it really is some orginization that is forcing the wolf to behave the way he is. ;)
Steph I LOVE the Gaston song...( G...A... S...T.... E...no Gast...o...... ah forget it...) but my favorite song is The Mob Song
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BTW I love how I'm the one who got slapped with cannibalism LMFAO. That's epic.
We should have a challenge where we have to write a BSB fairy tale or something. I remember where we had to do the "same plot, different author" challenge and I'm the one who kills them all Final Destination ish LOL.
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LMFAO at swine flu! That is so true! I love this question! I need a minute to think about it before I answer.
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I have always liked The Little Mermaid, and I like the original version of it....where she DOESN'T get the prince and ends up killing herself.
See, that story is full of angsty goodness, but I do love the Disney version cause let's face it....Eric is probably the best Disney prince next to Aladdin.
LMAO mare. Psycho pig??? Am I that predictable? I'd rather go with the pigs being involved in a conspiracy against the wolf or something....
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I am going to go with Thumbelina.... lol
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There's a version of Little Mermaid where Ariel's suicidal? LOL
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I'm gonna go with Snow White. It has a lot of my favorite elements. There's angst - Snow White has a tragic back story, having lost both her parents, and is at odds with her stepmother, who is deeply jealous of her. There's suspense - the queen wants Snow White dead and sends the huntsman to kill her. There's the hint of violence and gore with the fact that she wants him to cut out Snow White's heart. There's comic relief when she goes to live with the dwarves. There's drama when the queen finds her and gives her the poisoned apple, putting her to sleep. And there's romance when the prince comes and wakes her with the kiss of true love. It has a little bit of everything that I love!
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I have always liked The Little Mermaid, and I like the original version of it....where she DOESN'T get the prince and ends up killing herself.
See, that story is full of angsty goodness, but I do love the Disney version cause let's face it....Eric is probably the best Disney prince next to Aladdin.
Love that... angsty goodness! And Eric is definitely the hottest Disney prince!
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There's a version of Little Mermaid where Ariel's suicidal? LOL
The original... like the Grimms' fairy tales, it's pretty effed up! LOL
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I'm gonna go with Snow White. It has a lot of my favorite elements. There's angst - Snow White has a tragic back story, having lost both her parents, and is at odds with her stepmother, who is deeply jealous of her. There's suspense - the queen wants Snow White dead and sends the huntsman to kill her. There's the hint of violence and gore with the fact that she wants him to cut out Snow White's heart. There's comic relief when she goes to live with the dwarves. There's drama when the queen finds her and gives her the poison apple, putting her to sleep. And there's romance when the prince comes and wakes her with the kiss of true love. It has a little bit of everything that I love!
You know, I was gonna say I bet you'd pick Snow White LOL.
The original... like the Grimms' fairy tales, it's pretty effed up! LOL
You know I did not know that, I knew all about the Grimms' stories but not about Little Mermaid LOL.
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You know, I was gonna say I bet you'd pick Snow White LOL.
You know I did not know that, I knew all about the Grimms' stories but not about Little Mermaid LOL.
Were you? Awesome! It was either that or Sleeping Beauty, but Snow White was my first thought.
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Yeah in the original story the prince marries someone else, and she was so heartbroken she committed suicide in the end. True story.
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It would actually be the little blonde pig
That is a hard question! My mind instantly sort of went to Beauty and the Beast, just because of the super angsty beast who's upset, and there are characters all around him trying to help and fix the situation, but the only one who truly ends up really solving the issue is Belle. And also there's that lighthearted element with the awesome Gaston song (yeah I'm going with the Disney version - because who doesn't love the Gaston song?) and then he ultimately loses. There's also that portion where the two characters from two different worlds end up learning from each other, and that is definitely one of my favourite plotlines in any type of media lol I looove the Romeo and Juliet factor.
I love the angst of Beauty and the Beast!!
Have you ever read the fanfic Faceless? If not, you should read it. Nick = Beast. Lots of angst. It's delightful.
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I am going to go with Thumbelina.... lol
Why Thumbelina?
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I love the angst of Beauty and the Beast!!
Have you ever read the fanfic Faceless? If not, you should read it. Nick = Beast. Lots of angst. It's delightful.
I have it on my Kindle and it's on my to-read list! :D Thanks for the rec!
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That would be an awesome challenge idea. Take a fairy tale and make it your own BSB version of it.
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Were you? Awesome! It was either that or Sleeping Beauty, but Snow White was my first thought.
I love Sleeping Beauty, the original I mean LOL. My favorite story of all time though fairy tale wise is still Peter Pan.
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Why Thumbelina?
eh I'm not really, I just can't think of a good answer.
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Hands down my favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin is second. I also love Peter Pan.
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Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends? Did that make sense? lol
I know that not all of my stories are going to appeal, and I completely understand if people don't want to read. I wouldn't read something I wasn't enjoying, no matter who the writer is. But I wouldn't tell them I wasn't enjoying it, I just wouldn't read or review. I don't take it personally and hope friends wouldn't get offended if I didn't read everything of theirs.
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Why's it so quiet on here this morning?!
Okay, follow up question to the niche one: What's a genre you enjoy reading, but don't think you write well?
For me, it's suspense. I've always enjoyed reading suspenseful stories, mysteries, and thrillers, both in fanfic and in real life, but when I try to write them, I usually end up disappointed by the result. I'm capable of creating suspense by building the tension slowly and that kind of thing, but where I fall flat is usually with the mystery aspect of it or with the characters and their motives. I just don't have a very creative mind when it comes to mysteries. I enjoy reading/watching them, but am terrible at guessing whodunit - if I can guess correctly, then it wasn't a very good mystery, in my mind LOL. But I like to be surprised at the solution, to have my mind blown when I get to the end, and if a mystery doesn't deliver that twist ending, I'm disappointed. So in writing them, I try to have twists for my readers, but I'm not creative enough to make them shocking - they are usually predictable. And character-wise, I have yet to write a believable, three-dimensional villain with a good motive. Dr. Rough in 00Carter has been my favorite villain to write, but he is intentionally over the top - not necessarily believable. Maybe one of these days I will, but for now, I just admire people who can churn out awesome suspense stories that can both surprise and unsettle me.
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For the niche thing.....
I like being a niche writer and I'm not ashamed of it. There's just some things I'm not interested in, such as action/adventure or horror/suspense. I don't really watch that movies because they bore me. Romantic comedies/dramas are my thing. It's what I enjoy. If I tried to write something else, it would be forced and I don't think it would be as good as something that I enjoyed writing.
Don't get me wrong, I've tried it... I tried to do a serious straight drama/suspense about a year and a half ago and I couldn't get past chapter 2.
Writing a Disney/BSB thing....
Typically I would say "The Little Mermaid," but since the 45-year-old guy at work (God I have three days left) is OBSESSED with her, I can't look at Ariel the same. So I would say "Enchanted" or "The Princess Diaries." I'm not big on cartoons, even Disney movies. I think "Sleeping Beauty" would be interesting, too.
Knowing someone read it and didn't like my stories or not knowing at all...
I would rather know what they didn't like about it. That's the only way you're going to understand why people don't like you, rather than for stupid reasons that have nothing to do with the stories themselves. And if they had given you a shot back in say '01 and didn't like it, I would like for them to give me a shot now and see if they still don't like it, because people grow up, they learn, their writing changes (especially for me since I have a minor in creative writing now). A lot of people think I'm a bitch and won't give my stuff a chance because of me personally. But it's funny to see on my website people that I know don't like me, even hate me and talk shit about me, coming on to read my stories. That makes me feel good inside.
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It's funny how some people worry about their friends only reading their stories because they like them as a person, and others worry about people avoiding their stories because they don't like them as a person.
As a writer, is this something you worry about? And as a reader, do writers' personalities or your relationship with them affect which stories you choose to read?
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I love reading medical dramas, but any time I've tried to write one I've failed. I get way too squeamish looking at websites to do research, and I'm just not good at translating medical jargon into dialogue or description that a reader could understand while still coming off as believable.
But God, I love reading them.
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It's funny how some people worry about their friends only reading their stories because they like them as a person, and others worry about people avoiding their stories because they don't like them as a person.
As a writer, is this something you worry about? And as a reader, do writers' personalities or your relationship with them affect which stories you choose to read?
Well I would hope that if someone didn't like me personally it wouldn't deter them from reading something of mine if they were legitimately interested in it. That being said, I can see where it would. Sometimes it's hard to separate the writer from the story.
But I tend to just click into things I find interesting. I will admit I'm more drawn to the work of authors I've enjoyed in the past - but to not read something just because I don't like the person, I don't know. I guess if there's a lot of blatant self-promo and that's what I don't like about the person, then yeah, I won't read their stuff. I guess if there was someone I really didn't like, for whatever reason, I might not want to read their stuff. There was this one Winnipeg group I used to love, and then the lead singer said something really awful, and after that I just wasn't into their music anymore. I couldn't get over that thing he'd said.
I suppose it's not a stretch to think it could happen to me with fanfic too.
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It's funny how some people worry about their friends only reading their stories because they like them as a person, and others worry about people avoiding their stories because they don't like them as a person.
As a writer, is this something you worry about? And as a reader, do writers' personalities or your relationship with them affect which stories you choose to read?
Typically I don't really care, it just annoys me when people diss my stories without ever giving them a chance because they might not like me as a person. LOL I don't really care if my friends read or not, a good bit of them do, but some, who I met because of writing, don't even read anymore and they're still my friends.
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Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends? Did that make sense?
I would like to know why so I could fix anything if it needed to be. That's the only reason.
A lot of my friends don't read fanfic, and my writer friends do read but not most of my work. I am gonna be honest, it does to an extent but I know not everyone will like what I read. When I first started I didn't think about this and it might have turned people off from ever reading my work. I make mistakes and I admit them but I'm learning still. I talk about my writing a lot so this might deter them as well.
However I don't let this affect my friendships I have made with other writers....at least I don't think I do.
One thing that bugs me a bit is when someone starts reading, leaves feedback and then vanishes. If you're gonna stop reading it is ok....sometime s I would just like to know why. Is it something I can do to improve the story? That's all :)
Did that make sense? Sorry, I just woke up lol
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A genre I like reading but don't think I write well?
Most of the genres I enjoy reading are ones that I also enjoy writing. I only really tend to follow suspense, action, drama and dramedies and I think I do okay in all of those, not to sound arrogant or anything, but yeah, I'm pretty perfect! (Joke LOL).
I guess like Steph said, maybe the medical dramas? Although I'm kind of picky when it comes to the medical stuff and don't really enjoy them when they are set in a medical setting like a hospital, but more so if Nick gets sick as part of a plot etc... But, I've never really had the urge to write something like that either. So, I'm not really sure if I have an answer to this question.
I guess if there's anything I know I need work on it's perfecting a female role and trying to keep them alive or relevant for more than a few chapters. lol
I really had intended to do that for Whatever the Night May Bring with Syndey. I fully intended on making her a love interest for AJ but then I didn't. I just made her go away because I wasn't interested and for me if I'm not, I can't see writing her realistically enough to have people care either. So, yes fully developing and seeing an original female character all the way through (who isn't a villain. I have done that with plenty of villains. LOL) would be something I wish I could do better! Even though I'm not the slightest bit interested in reading those!
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I never really let how I feel about people become a factor in if I read their stuff or not. It's more about what they write then who they are. If I think you are the bees knees but only write Mpregs about NKOTB I'll love you but never read anything you write, but then again I'd never lead you to believe I would either.
If I think you are a big flaming bitch from hell but you write the best suspense in the world, I'll read it and love it and even review it (which I admit can be hard sometimes) because it's about the story not about the person. LOL
You're not always going to be able to please everyone. Sometimes people aren't going to like you just because the stars aren't aligned. Sometimes it's something you said once in passing without even meaning the people you upset, but other times it's because you're legitimately unlikable, whatever the case, it shouldn't really effect whether or not people read your stuff. I do think it's a matter of taste.
I know my total honesty when it comes to my likes and dislikes can be off putting to many people but again, it's who I am. I'd rather be blatantly honest about my opinions than pretentious and end up stabbing people in the back. That's not everyone's cup of tea and that's fine but don't avoid my stories because of that, avoid my stories because you don't like the style or because you've tried to read my stuff and you thought it sucked. LOL
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I know my total honesty when it comes to my likes and dislikes can be off putting to many people but again, it's who I am. I'd rather be blatantly honest about my opinions than pretentious and end up stabbing people in the back. That's not everyone's cup of tea and that's fine but don't avoid my stories because of that, avoid my stories because you don't like the style or because you've tried to read my stuff and you thought it sucked. LOL
THIS times a million.
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For the fairytale question, I'd pick Beauty & The Beast as I love the Disney film and the story. I like how Belle doesn't just fall for Gaston like all the other girls do, and instead of being terrified of the beast, she actually gets to know him and love him for who he is. It's the ultimate fairytale for me :)
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A genre I like reading but don't think I'd write very well is medical drama. I love Julie's stories like Broken, Curtain Call and Secrets of the Heart, but could never write anything like that because I wouldn't be able to put the detail or believability into it that she does.
I'm not sure I have a writing niche as I like to give anything a go (I think that was a question I missed).
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^ Thanks Steph! And I think you're right about your niche or lack thereof - you're one of the most diverse writers on here! You can write anything!
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I don't think I have a niche either. I love to read all sorts of things too, so I'm not sure if I can answer that question lol
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I figured out my fairytale!!! I would do the 12 Dancing Princesses. There is a little bit of mystery and intrigue to it, I could add more suspense and possibly a bit more romance than what is in the original. Yes 12 Dancing Princesses.... :)
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What's a genre you enjoy reading, but don't think you write well?
Suspense, I love reading it but I don't think I can do the whole mystery/who-dun-it? thing well. I've got suspense ideas but none I was confident enough to actually go through with and try to post. Mare pulls it off beautifully and I wish I could but it's definitely not me. My villains are usually not a mystery LOL.
As a writer, is this something you worry about? And as a reader, do writers' personalities or your relationship with them affect which stories you choose to read?
Not really. I realize I can be off putting as a person. If you ask me a question, I give you a straight answer. If you don't like the answer, well, don't ever ask me then LOL. Now actions like a lot of self-promo will make me not want to read a story, but that's the only instance. If your stories interest me, I'll read them even if you're one of the biggest ego-maniac douchebag bitches on the planet LOL. But as I'm really picky these days, it hasn't been a problem.
I would like to hope people would read my stories because they appeal to them, and not let my personality get in the way. If it does, well, I'm not going to stop being me because of that. So it is what it is. It does suck when someone calls your writing shitty or crappy, or bad, etc. because they don't like you. But, life goes on LOL. I don't worry about it.
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Here's a question...or a few...
Best Death Scene you've ever read in fanfic? Written?
Saddest scene...read? Written?
What made these stir up the emotions in you?
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Here's a question...or a few...
Best Death Scene you've ever read in fanfic? Written?
Saddest scene...read? Written?
What made these stir up the emotions in you?
Death scene read would have to be, oh my.... the story where the fan is taking the different body parts from the boys. I wanna say it was In Pieces by Julie....
Death scene written? oh gosh, I don't write death very often. I am going to say the deaths of everyone in Darkness of Vampires: End of All Hope. :) I loved writing those very much.
Saddest scene read: I am going to have to go with the most recent and say the scene in RMTW when Brian is still denying putting Nick in a home to be cared for. :(
Saddest scene written: uh I don't write sad very well AT ALL. I don't think I have any...
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Good questions Rose.
There aren't really any writers I don't like personally right now, but even if someone and I weren't getting along I'd still read if their writing was good. I don't consider personal relationships a factor when I read.
I will answer the questions in a bit when I choose the stories...I've read so many.
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There isn't anyone I dislike, but even if I didn't like someone, if their story was good then I'd read it and review it.
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Here's a question...or a few...
Best Death Scene you've ever read in fanfic? Written?
Saddest scene...read? Written?
What made these stir up the emotions in you?
Best death scene I've read, well the Muffin Man was the first one that popped into my head, lol, that was just pure gore so I will go with that. Best one I've written would have to be one of the 1000 Ways To Kill Nick as I've not written any other death scenes (I don't think so anyway...yet!)
Saddest scene I've ever read is a tie between RMTW and Curtain Call as both stories had me crying like a baby. The saddest thing I've written was a Take That AU short story where I sent Jason to the gas chambers in WW2.
I think anything where the boys are suffering is going to bring out the emotion in me, I'm a big wimp!
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Best death scene I've read, well the Muffin Man was the first one that popped into my head, lol, that was just pure gore so I will go with that. Best one I've written would have to be one of the 1000 Ways To Kill Nick as I've not written any other death scenes (I don't think so anyway...yet!)
Saddest scene I've ever read is a tie between RMTW and Curtain Call as both stories had me crying like a baby. The saddest thing I've written was a Take That AU short story where I sent Jason to the gas chambers in WW2.
I think anything where the boys are suffering is going to bring out the emotion in me, I'm a big wimp!
Awww I'm flattered to tie with Julie! She's like a Queen of Angst lol.
That actually was the saddest scene I've ever written...well that story as a whole really LOL.
Saddest one I've read? Nick's death in Curtain Call, it's so well written and so poignant.
Best Death Scene? I agree about the Muffin death LMAO. I love that one so much.
Written... Probably the one where I decapitate him in the elevator. I kinda love that.
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More tough questions lol
To have a favorite death scene is a bit morbid for me. I would probably have to go with Brian's death in Scared of Reality because it wasn't Nick for once and was kind of surprising when it happened.
Saddest scene is probably Documenteries by Izzy. The entire story was so sad and just touched me in a way not many other scenes from stories have.
Saddest scene I've ever written is I Wonder How Old I Am from Seasons of Change.
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Okay, it took me all day to think of it but the best death scene?
If we are going for funny, I would have to say Julie's Muffin Man one. But for serious definitely Curtain Call. I cried a lot after CC ended and me and my friend were just talking about it, we were both a mess when it was finished.
Saddest scene? I would say in Remember Me This Way the ending for that also made me cry, when Nick didn't know who Brian was...that touched me because of what I went through with my own grandmother. I felt as if I was Brian in that situation.
Saddest scene I've written?
The one shot I wrote about what happened after Figured You Out.... "I Should Be Thankful" It was full of angst and just really emotional, how he was going to commit suicide. I went through something personal and have been in that state of mind only once, so it was easy to portray that raw emotion in writing. Luckily that is far behind me now :)
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Forgot to put this but favorite death I've written? I would say the one where Nick gets crushed by the stage in 1000 Ways. It's called "Caffinated Pancakes" and he has a bad reaction to red bull causing a heart attack. I just think that because it is realistic and not too over the top.
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What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye? lol
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What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye? lol
My biggest motivator is finishing up something else- usually reading a book, but sometimes watching a movie- that is a genre type I like to write. Something about the story will inspire me to start writing or to get back to something I've been working on. Visiting someone else's imaginary world gets my own imagination flowing and helps me along.
On the flip side, the longer I haven't written, the harder it is sometimes to get back into it. It's like I feel I've forgotten how or something, and then finding the motivation to try is more difficult.
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What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
This is going to sound corny, but just the love of writing. Sometimes when I go too long without doing it, I get itchy. Even when I'm blocked on all my stories I try to write because I love it.
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye?
Real life issues. They'll kill all my energy and make it almost a chore when it's too much. When I have some, it's therapeutic. When I have a lot, it builds up and turns into a block instead.
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What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
Honestly, anything. I just really love writing and finding a story within something that inspires me. Be it a song or something that actually happened, I love to make stuff up lol. When I get an idea I'm really excited about, it's fun to put words onto the page and play around with them to make it read exactly as it plays out in my head.
Oh, I also write to escape stupid things happening in my real life. I wrote a lot when Randy and I were breaking up.
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye?
It used to be when I had a lot going on in my real life that was good, I wouldn't be motivated to write. Because anything I could dream up in my head was less interesting than whatever real life thing was happening at the moment. But now, I'm not sure. Probably stupid drama. When my story got copied I didn't want to write anything, and didn't for like a week. That completely killed all of my inspiration. (I actually still haven't gone back to the sequel for that story.) I guess if I'm just in a really energetic mood it'll be hard for me to actually sit down and write.
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Thanks, guys, for all the Curtain Call and RoTS love!!
As far as favorite death scenes go, there are definitely two ways to answer that one - funny or serious. There are so many funny ones in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter and Revenge of the Slaughtered that I can't even narrow it down to one! Tracy and Steph have both contributed a lot of creative deaths, and Erika wrote one where Nick died after ODing on Viagara (they have those warnings about an erection lasting longer than four hours for a reason!) that cracked me the hell up. I think my favorite one to write was the Burning Up death in 1000 Ways. It's not even the most creative of the ones I've come up with; I think it's just the "soundtrack" that makes me like it so much LOL. "The way you shake, shake, shake, shake that ass..." For RoTS, of course it's the Muffin Man one! I will never top that one LOL.
For serious death scenes, I agree with Mare that Brian's death in Scared of Reality was a good one because it was a shocker, happening in the middle of the story just when you thought he was going to get away. Another one for me would be Nick's death at the end of the Swollen Issues series because, although it was coming, it was still a shock in its own right, and it wasn't pretty, but brutally realistic. I respect that. I was so attached to that series that I sort of grieved that one LOL. For my favorite I've written, I have to go with Curtain Call. I am proud of how that scene turned out.
As for saddest scene, I agree with everyone who said the end of Remember Me This Way was really sad. I've kind of built up a tolerance to where I don't cry easily at fanfics anymore, but that one did make me cry. Watching Nick forget what year it was and regress back to the Millennium era, then forget the people in his life and start seeing them as strangers, and ultimately forget who he was... that deterioration was just tragic and definitely brought some tears toward the end. I think the saddest scenes that I've written have been when Brian's whole family died (the first time) in Song for the Undead and Casey's death in By My Side. I remember actually crying over those Casey chapters, and I hardly ever do that with my own stories (though there was some influence from Dumbo there... holy shit, can that movie make me cry!). Apparently killing children, even fictional children in minor roles, bothers me more than killing Backstreet Boys LOL.
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Oh man, I completely forgot about those Casey chapters in BMS. Yes, I definitely teared up while reading those :(
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What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye? lol
I agree a lot with what Rose and Steph said for both of these questions. I write because I love to write. I enjoy the actual act of being creative and putting words on paper and telling a story, but even more than that, I enjoy the rush I get from it. When my writing is going well, it's easy for me to be in a good mood. Even on Monday morning when I'm not looking forward to a full week of work, I feel better if I've had a successful weekend of writing, especially if I updated Sunday night and wake up to new reviews. Feedback is GREAT motivation. There's no better way to make my day and get me excited about writing more. Writing is my happy place.
I also agree that real life is the number one thing that gets in my way when it comes to writing. During the school year, time is an issue, and mental energy is an even bigger issue. When I come home after a full day of being in teacher mode, I am mentally drained. All I feel like doing is collapsing on the couch and falling asleep in front of the TV. It takes a total rush of inspiration to get me to overcome that and write anything on a weeknight. I do it every once in awhile - I had a nice streak of doing it with Curtain Call - but more often than that, I just can't. And that makes it harder to get back into that mindset on the weekend, when I actually do have time and am not so sleep-deprived and exhausted. But of course, if there are other issues in my life that are stressing me out, that makes it harder to focus on writing, too.
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Oh man, I completely forgot about those Casey chapters in BMS. Yes, I definitely teared up while reading those :(
That was such a small part of the story in comparison, but those chapters have always stuck with me because I remember writing them. I was home from college for the weekend, and I'm pretty sure I spent a lot of it locked in my bedroom at my parents' house with my Dumbo DVD in my computer and that Baby Mine song playing on repeat, literally making myself cry as I wrote. Then I went back to college Sunday night, and when people asked how my weekend was, I thought, wow, what a downer! I spent my whole weekend killing a child with cancer. Weirdo LOL.
Does anyone else actually try to make themselves emotional while they're gearing up to write an emotional part? I did that a lot with Broken and BMS, which may be why they're so melodramatic, because I was being melodramatic as I wrote them! LOL
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I totally do that too. Especially if I'm writing about a character grieving or something equally sad, I'll put on a playlist of sad music and really try to get into their mindset and make myself overly upset about it. I find that doing that really helps, it's hard to write a sad scene if you're in a really good mood. But, I almost need to be in that false, fabricated sad mood to write about sad stuff. If I'm legitimately annoyed or upset, I probably won't be able to write using those feelings - I tend to want to write the opposite in that case, lol.
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^ That's exactly how I am, too. I can make myself feel sad for the characters and their situation, but I'm not legitimately depressed by it or anything LOL. In fact, deep down I'm thrilled because I love writing those emotional scenes. That's why both writing and reading are so cathartic. I love to cry over stories without really being sad.
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^ That's exactly how I am, too. I can make myself feel sad for the characters and their situation, but I'm not legitimately depressed by it or anything LOL. In fact, deep down I'm thrilled because I love writing those emotional scenes. That's why both writing and reading are so cathartic. I love to cry over stories without really being sad.
I totally do that too. Especially if I'm writing about a character grieving or something equally sad, I'll put on a playlist of sad music and really try to get into their mindset and make myself overly upset about it. I find that doing that really helps, it's hard to write a sad scene if you're in a really good mood. But, I almost need to be in that false, fabricated sad mood to write about sad stuff. If I'm legitimately annoyed or upset, I probably won't be able to write using those feelings - I tend to want to write the opposite in that case, lol.
I feel better now. I thought I was the only one that put on the sappy music and made myself sad. Een hubby knows not to mess with my sad playlist.
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LOL You are not alone, my friend!
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Thanks, guys, for all the Curtain Call and RoTS love!!
As far as favorite death scenes go, there are definitely two ways to answer that one - funny or serious. There are so many funny ones in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter and Revenge of the Slaughtered that I can't even narrow it down to one! Tracy and Steph have both contributed a lot of creative deaths, and Erika wrote one where Nick died after ODing on Viagara (they have those warnings about an erection lasting longer than four hours for a reason!) that cracked me the hell up. I think my favorite one to write was the Burning Up death in 1000 Ways. It's not even the most creative of the ones I've come up with; I think it's just the "soundtrack" that makes me like it so much LOL. "The way you shake, shake, shake, shake that ass..." For RoTS, of course it's the Muffin Man one! I will never top that one LOL.
For serious death scenes, I agree with Mare that Brian's death in Scared of Reality was a good one because it was a shocker, happening in the middle of the story just when you thought he was going to get away. Another one for me would be Nick's death at the end of the Swollen Issues series because, although it was coming, it was still a shock in its own right, and it wasn't pretty, but brutally realistic. I respect that. I was so attached to that series that I sort of grieved that one LOL. For my favorite I've written, I have to go with Curtain Call. I am proud of how that scene turned out.
As for saddest scene, I agree with everyone who said the end of Remember Me This Way was really sad. I've kind of built up a tolerance to where I don't cry easily at fanfics anymore, but that one did make me cry. Watching Nick forget what year it was and regress back to the Millennium era, then forget the people in his life and start seeing them as strangers, and ultimately forget who he was... that deterioration was just tragic and definitely brought some tears toward the end. I think the saddest scenes that I've written have been when Brian's whole family died (the first time) in Song for the Undead and Casey's death in By My Side. I remember actually crying over those Casey chapters, and I hardly ever do that with my own stories (though there was some influence from Dumbo there... holy shit, can that movie make me cry!). Apparently killing children, even fictional children in minor roles, bothers me more than killing Backstreet Boys LOL.
Awww thank you ZDR!
OMG I forgot all about those Casey chapters too. Another moment that made me cry :(. I am not okay with killing kids in fiction. It so bugs me lmao. I kill people in my stories with no problems, but kids? I have issues.
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Does anyone else actually try to make themselves emotional while they're gearing up to write an emotional part?
Definitely. Hell, "Safe and Sound" has become my new angst scene song LOL. I love writing sad scenes and really getting into the emotion of it. I know with RMTW there were times as I wrote, I found myself tearing up. But it felt good to know I was evoking that much emotion in myself cause I hoped it was coming across in the story. Glad I'm not the only one who goes out to be emo when writing angst LOL.
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^ That is a great angsty song!
I don't listen to sad music while I actually write as much anymore as I used to, but I do have playlists to get me geared up to write. I try to take a walk every night or early in the morning, and if I've been writing or am planning to write, I have a certain set of songs I listen to that fit the mood of the story. Other people walk to upbeat, motivational music; I walk to depressing emo songs! LOL
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What motivates me to write is when i'm excited about what's going on with the boys (as far as fanfic is concerned) Like this past visit to London and having them all live together in one house, hello? I felt like if I didn't write about the experience my brain was going to burst. It has to be something like that to get me to write. I love writing in general but I find it's always hardest for me to just start.
On the other end, when nothing is happening in the fandom or something I really am not happy about (like the NKOTBSB) I find no motivation at all to write a thing. (like now, they are no longer in London so sudden'y i'm not at all interested in writing anymore lol) Also, like so many of you have said, real life issues getting in the way. During the school year, I have 0 inspiration to write a thing or if i'm really really stressed out, it's not going to work either because I always feel this guilt like I should be working on a solution to my problem instead of writing fanfiction. LOL
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Awww thank you ZDR!
OMG I forgot all about those Casey chapters too. Another moment that made me cry :(. I am not okay with killing kids in fiction. It so bugs me lmao. I kill people in my stories with no problems, but kids? I have issues.
I love the fact that you don't consider kids people lmao
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I don't intentionally try to get myself all upset when i'm writing a sad scene, but I do find if it's going the way I want it to, i'll get sad as I write it.
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Does anyone else actually try to make themselves emotional while they're gearing up to write an emotional part?
Maybe I should make a sad playlist but I have a hard time buying songs that make me sad. *shrugs*
BUT the songs I listenend to for CP very much revved me up to write longing and wanting someone but can't really have them for various reasons and I think it translated well to the relationship between Kevin and Julie. So since it worked there, maybe I need to break down and buy sad songs. HEH.
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I'M SO OUT OF THE LOOOOP !!! *tears up* I miss you guys!!! I'm working on the final chapters of Borrowed Time to update the story next time I get wifi access and I've started a new story as well to post when I've made my comeback. It's lonely without wifi! Everyone please pray for me to get a JOB this week so I can afford to pay rent and wifi fees! LOL SERIOUSLY -- in that order, of course. ;D
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Good luck with the job search, Hannah! I hope you find something soon!
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Yup seconding the good luck vibes on the job hunt, Hannah!
What do you guys do when you get random inspiration at work? LOL. Because it drives me nuts sometimes that I spend my entire day in Microsoft Word and yet, I cannot write. I type up little notes on my phone if there's something I really can't get out of my head or really want to remember.
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^ That never happens for me. I don't have time to think about anything besides work at work lol
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During work I don't have any time to work on writing, I wish I did. If I get an idea, I try to keep it in my head until lunch. Then I will jote some notes in my phone or text my friend with my idea.
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uh if I get inspired at work I usually write it down in my notebook. I may write at work but I still jot down ideas that randomly come to me. I will open a word document if the idea is new and really plaguing my mind and it's a first scene. I have found that I cannot jump around with scenes in word. When I actually set to write I have to go in order so when a random scene hits I write it down in my notebook to use later.
Oh that's a question. Do you have to write your story in order or can you write them out of order and then piece them together later?
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Wow I've missed to many questions to go back. I'll start with Lore's.
Oh that's a question. Do you have to write your story in order or can you write them out of order and then piece them together later?
Usually I just go in order, but with Bound I seem to be coming up with scenes that are far from happening and I just write it up and save it for when it comes up. :shrug:
I have another question. I think I'm better at coming up with questions than answering them anyway.
Out of all your stories which character is your ultimate favorite that you've written? What about your least favorite? Why?
When you think of stories you've read...what character do you think of first? Why?
Ok that's more than one question...lol
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How about we do this, because this thread is getting long. I'm going to take Erika's question and use it to start a brand new thread but i'm also going to leave this one open for Lore's and the other ones to finish up. :)
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I always write my stories in order. My brain doesn't think out of order. lol
Most of my main ideas never are for the beginning of a story anyway but I just hold out until I get to it instead of skipping ahead and i'm happy I do it that way because nine out of ten times that original idea ends up changing to accommodate what's been written prior.
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As far as getting inspired at work, I'm with Mare, Rachel, and probably all the other teachers - it doesn't happen! LOL No time to think!
As for writing stories in order, I always do. Even Secrets of the Heart, which I could have skipped around on, I wrote in order. I just feel like it flows better that way.
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I always write stories in order, the exception to this is with collaborations . I'm sometimes able to skip ahead and write my part (00Carter) or chapter (Undead), because usually things are split up by character so it's easier to do.
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Man I wish I could write in order! The only one I've been writing in order is Running Up That Hill. Everything else I skip around on. It's why I have so many random chapters sitting in my fan fic folder. Even stories of mine that are done and complete weren't written in order. I just jump around and write the scenes I'm inspired to write and sometimes I don't even end up using them because the story changes as I go. But sometimes those ones I first jotted down and re-work ten times over end up turning out really well. So I guess it's a trade off. It forces me to look over them again and again, at least.