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Author Topic: Do you have a writing quirk?  (Read 18026 times)

RokofAges75

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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2012, 10:29:05 PM »
Me too!  Since your name is Rose, can we name it Petunia - Petunia the Parasitic Twin?
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2012, 10:30:30 PM »
LMFAO that sounds like a twisted sitcom title.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2012, 10:33:25 PM »
The kind of twisted sitcom we'd write.  :biggrin:

I picture Petunia looking like Baby Voldemort.  Let me know if you find a face growing out the back of your head or something.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2012, 10:38:21 PM »
Speaking of parasitic twins and writing quirks, my characters always seem to have babies at some point in most of my stories.  I like babies.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2012, 02:29:29 AM »
I also noticed that I make jokes about Howie's hair or him using hair products quite a bit...or he just isn't in the story at all. Poor Howard.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #20 on: June 10, 2012, 05:50:28 AM »
Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 09, 2012, 10:20:07 PM
They were heading to Philly in Whatever the Night May Bring too; those were the two I was thinking of.  Seems natural to use places you're familiar with (even if you hate them) whenever possible, like Tracy and New Jersey.  That said, I don't seem to use Chicago much - that would be the major city I'm most familiar with.  Most of mine take place in Florida or Cali or wherever the Boys are touring.

Oh lol I forgot they were in Philly in Whatever the Night. The funniest part of that is I can use one hand with the number of times I've been to Philly lol I'm much more familiar with NJ, Boston or Nashville. I don't know why I've not used those places.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #21 on: June 10, 2012, 02:35:26 PM »
I really don't know if I do anything like that with my stories.  I can't really add places I'm familiar with unless I have them stranded in South Wales or north east England, lol.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2012, 04:33:49 PM »
I'm sure that makes it harder!  I mean, I'm used to writing about places in the U.S. I've never been, but at least it's still the same country.  I think it would be hard to write a story set completely in a different country, unless it was a place I'd been or a culture I knew a lot about.  But the internet does make it a lot easier to research nowadays, if you're anal about making things sound realistic.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #23 on: June 10, 2012, 04:45:19 PM »
I'm pretty sure my settings don't sound realistic, LOL.  In the one I'm writing now, it's been slightly easier as some of it is set in England, but it's 1940's England which is about as foreign to me as the US.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2012, 05:11:42 PM »
LOL True!  I think historical fiction would be hard for the same reason.  Any time you're writing about a world that's different from your own, it's more difficult.
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2012, 05:22:10 PM »
I tend to have someone end up pregnant at the end oft stories!
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2012, 05:28:43 PM »
I can't really use settings that I'm familiar with, unless the boys want to hang out in Winnipeg, haha. I did have part of In Pieces take place in Minneapolis, which is basically the USA version of Winnipeg :P

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever taken the boys out of the states in my stories. (Except for my teeny fics in which Nick and all the other BSB moved onto my street after Nick fell in love with me in Florida.)
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #27 on: June 10, 2012, 05:31:17 PM »
Quote from: Sakabelle on June 10, 2012, 05:28:43 PM
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever taken the boys out of the states in my stories. (Except for my teeny fics in which Nick and all the other BSB moved onto my street after Nick fell in love with me in Florida.)

LOL!!
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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #28 on: June 10, 2012, 05:35:12 PM »
Quote from: Sakabelle on June 10, 2012, 05:28:43 PM
(Except for my teeny fics in which Nick and all the other BSB moved onto my street after Nick fell in love with me in Florida.)

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Re: Do you have a writing quirk?
« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2012, 06:06:08 PM »
Well it would have been ridiculous for me and my friends to move to Florida :P
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