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Well, just remember, this isn't a contest, it's just a forum for sharing ideas and flights of imagination. I haven't read a lot of Idol fan fiction, but I know the expectations and boundaries are different in different places. Just read the guidelines, submit your stuff (I ran mine through bcollan), and see what happens. Not everybody is into fanfic, but I hope those of us who are can have fun with this new development.
I'm having a great time with it and am up to story #4 so far. I work with an editor (one of our members) and try to get things as polished up as possible, check for inconsistencies, etc. Right now I'm working on one where she's doing her own tour and finding out that it's tough to balance a career where you belong to everybody and a personal life where you may have to deal with the egos of people who wish you could belong to just one person. And I had to try to figure out what kind of first album she'd do, so I just took off on a total tangent. I'm not predicting, just fantasizing. I don't even have her doing the kind of music I'd really like to hear from her, but it doesn't matter. It's just for fun.
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Well, just remember, this isn't a contest, it's just a forum for sharing ideas and flights of imagination.
Who you talking to? Hmmmm....couldn't be me, could it? I know, I know. It isn't let's see if we can do better than Groucho. I know. I need to get back to work on my story. Since I think it needs to be up before your #4 for one part to make sense. I'll do it tomorrow. I promise. I just feel like I'm going to be taking a hatchet to it and I'm delaying the hatcheting process.
Who? Greg? Heh. Well...my story needed some help and you provided that so...
Anyway...write people, write! I know it isn't something you can just do in 15 minutes but...when you get done doing one of these you'll feel great about it. Especially if you have kind people telling you it is really good. That's a nice bonus.
We all steal from one another...which makes no true best. Remember that old phrase "If you steal from one person, you're a thief...but if you steal from everyone...it's research?" We all pass around the same $25, which is our word use fee around here.
Nine pages on Word? That isn't long Greg...my "4 K's" was 12 pages...I think the two stories Groucho's posted so far are 12 & 13 pages respectively. And the other one I've seen is 17 pages at last check.
Initially "4 K's"...well it had a different name before I rearranged it. It was 17 pages...it was reduced to 12 in the editing, rewriting process.
I have so much happening in mine--it probably gives the illusion of being longer. Perhaps I should break it up into different posts so there can be chapter breaks if people need that. But it was easier just to cut and paste the whole thing in one post.
Anyway, maybe some people are turned off by the fact that we witness Katharine on her deathbed at the end--but it gives us a chance to see a full arc of her life that way and put everything in a much larger context. I usually think that way about her career anyway and the profound reach she could potentially have. And, the best thing is that Katharine's life and career is quasi all-encompassing--so there's plenty of material to mine out of what's already happened or could potentially happen.
Greg! AHHHH! I haven't read your story yet! Now I know too much! Well no, but that stunned me. She's on her deathbed? I gotta see how we get to that point now...
Um, but yeah it is good to have someone else read these things before you go public with them because...you miss things sometimes. I mean YOU know what's you are saying but maybe it doesn't come out clearly for someone who isn't inside your head.
So just having someone to ask questions about what you were intending in certain parts is nice. And then you can either make adjustments or not based on that. It is YOUR story after all. Anyway, I guess I should get on reading your story Greg...since you probably want to know what I think since I'm one of the people involved with this whole thing on here. And you did say a lot of nice things about mine so...I could at least do you that courtesy.