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FS for November Story # 94: Forever Like This by Sakabelle

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mare:
Hello and Happy November!

This month's author, Steph otherwise known as Saka-Steph because there are so many Steph's on the site lol comes in as # 7 on our all time favorites list!

The story you chose to discuss is Forever Like This which is a One Direction/BSB crossover.

Here is the link: http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=11000

I hope you take the time and read not only this one but Steph's entire collection of work including my personal favorite, "Climbing Up That Hill" which she just completed. Congrats, Steph!  :)

Don't forget to drop by here and comment on how wonderful Steph is and ask her any questions you may have about anything!

Enjoy & Happy Reading!!

mare:
I asked Steph to explain what the difference is between writing BSB fiction versus One Direction fics and this is what she had to say.
So I have been thinking about this on and off for the past few days and here's some of the differences I've come up with.

The biggest difference that I find is the time period that both groups were popular and how that impacts each of their characters. If I want to write a story about the crazy days of BSB it has to be set in the late 90s obviously. There was no twitter or that kind of thing where people could instantly know where they were and instantly connect with them. It's weird because sometimes you want to throw in a fan interaction and to do that it has to come from either BSB running into a fan in public or them actively seeking it out on a message board. And even then it's far less instantaneous. I've had a lot of fun playing with twitter in 1D fandom and having them be accessible by fans all the time.

I feel like people might think the setting would be a challenge, having BSB as an American based group and 1D a British based group, but it's not really. Just some extra slang that I have to Google or ask people about. I don't think I've ever set a 1D story in England now that I think about it. They've either been touring and the soccer one was set in Brazil.

Obviously another big difference for me between those two fandoms is that I mainly write 1D slash and I don't write BSB slash. It's nice because while romance is my favourite drama, I get bored easily with creating a female lead. I don't have to do that with slash, I can just keep the story about the five of them (or eliminate ones I don't need in the case of AUs lol). It's sort of why I've given romance the backburner on my BSB stuff, because I got bored with the female leads and Nick drama.

On that note, I find that what's popular is radically different. People expect a lot of sex scenes in 1D fic and I feel like if I wrote a story without one I'd get complaints. But I've written romance stories in BSB fandom that didn't have a single sex scene and everyone was fine with it. There's also much more of a demand and readership for slash in that fandom than there is in BSB fandom.

The bromance is also different. BSB has this really interesting dynamic because their ages are so spread out, so we can have stories about 12 year old Nick and 21 year old Kevin. I feel like it's one of the best things about this fandom and one of the strengths in those stories that are strictly about the five of them. In 1D the boys are all at most two years apart. So their group dynamic is really different than BSB because they're all so close in age.

Also the posting is different! On here people are much more willing to give comments. On AO3 where I post 1D fic, people are less likely to post comments because they have this concept of kudos, which is basically a Facebook "like". It took some adjusting to but I almost look forward to how many kudos my story will get more than a comment. I don't think either way is better, they're just different ways of saying "I liked this!" Though it is nice on here to get the detailed comments on what the readers specifically liked about the chapter.

Those are the biggest differences. Which I now realise was a very long way of saying "everything is different." lol

mare:
A note from Julilly :)
Our eyes first met across a hotel lobby. I was late, but she would come to learn that no matter the occasion, she would always be the one left waiting for my tardy arrival. After the first exchange of hellos it was clear that there were something between us. We were destined to be besties from the start.

Okay, okay, I'll stop being melodramatic. Seriously though, that is how Saka-Steph and I first met. Through a discussion here on the forum we both expressed interest in going to the NKOTBSB show in Toronto back in 2011. We had chatted on the forum before, both having Canadian passports in common, and had been at a few of the same shows separately in the past. We not only went to the same NKOTBSB show together, we also got a hotel room together along with one of my other friends. Essentially we were meeting strangers off the internet for the first time before committing to spend an entire weekend exploring Toronto together. It could have gone very poorly.

Luckily for me, it didn't. It seems like Steph and I have known each other as well as we do now for a lot longer than three years. She is one of my best friends, my vacation companion, frequent confident, and faithful beta reader. I've struggled with writing in the last few years and Steph has always been in my corner rooting for me, pushing me to write. She has been my one exclusive reader to a plethora of stories that have never seen the light of day and I can always rely on her honest review of my works as they develop.

I trust her opinion on my own writing because I have a lot of respect for hers. Though her proclivity for fanfic is leaning in a bit of a different 'direction' these days, I will always enjoy the way Steph portrays real life in such an honest way. Even when writing a romance she will forgo the obvious over-dramatic turn in exchange for moments that seem genuine and believable, which is exactly how I feel romance should be written.

I'm happy to see that everyone else also has an appreciation for Steph's writing. I want to congratulate her on being selected among this collection of AC greats and look forward to a month of Sakabelle.

Sakabelle:
Thanks you guys for voting for me :)

And thanks Julia for the lovely note  :-* I can't believe that NKOTBSB weekend was only three years ago!

I also can't believe that Forever Like This has ended up being featured on AC, because when I was writing that I initially wasn't even going to post it because I thought no one would like it. Clearly some people did, so thanks!!

RokofAges75:
Congrats, Steph!  It was interesting reading about the differences between BSB and 1D fanfic.  I'm surprised that sex scenes and slash are such a big deal in the 1D fandom compared to ours because the fan base is probably overall a lot younger.  Then again, maybe that's why sex is such a big thing - wishful thinking for teenyboppers! LOL  I guess it was the same in our fandom back in the day, when visuals were popular.  Anyway, I've never read or written much in any other fandoms, so it's interesting to hear how they vary.

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