Themes, Elements You Can't Avoid

JediRevan20 · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:15 am Post subject:

Another one of my "How do you write your fanfics?" posts. This time, its about themes you can't pull away from. Do you try to write something angsty, but your story ends up being a comedy? Do you write a romance novel, but it only ends up being fluff? I'd like to know.

Personally, I can't avoid a theme of romance for whatever reason. I always create some kind of romantic couple or something.

KFelidae · Still very bored Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 295

I think the hardest to avoid is probably angst.

I mean, most characters nowadays are tragic heroes anyway, so a little angst is expected. Even when doing a mostly humorous story, there are usually sections that I have to catch myself. "Bad Kiff! This is supposed to be lighthearted!"

Aw well. Admitting's the first step to recovery, right? XD

-KF

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject:

hardest for me to avoid...death. Some main or sub char ALWAYS, ALWAYS dies in my fics. That or they up and leave forever. Odd...didn't notice till now

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

I can aviod death in my stories. And I don't usually use the hooror genre.

Well, there are lots of thing I can't avoid like:
--Some funny and somewhat awkward moments. Sure, every story needs that to have spice.
--I often start with a boy and a girl as friends then end up as lovers. Dunno, guess I just like those kissing scenes. AAHH! It's smooching time for Hiro n' Stella this summer!
--injury. I avoid dying characters, but I can't seem to stop them from being injured in some parts of my stories. WAHH!
--There's always a cool cloaked(or something else) guy who helps out my main characters.
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cloudbabykc · Newb Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 6

hardest thing fgor me to avoid. FLUFF. its everywhere in my mind and the main thing that comes up within my mind is just that @_@

then theres angst I guess. all storys have it if you think about it O_O

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

I'm currently using angst in my project this summer. First time I used it. Confused...WAH!
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SilentSoul92 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject:

poor Jintei. Angst is like the second main thing for my fics. Everything always ends up going all the wrong way and then everyone end's up suffering. MWHAHAHAHA!!...hahahah...ha?

Kingdom-Fighter · Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 55

i try angst as i find it easier to do

EN1X · Site Helper Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 764

Angst/tragedy is one of my main ones. I like making people suffer. ^_^
I do a lot of action/adventure fics, tho.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject:

hm, fantasy and adventure is cool too. Oh and twisting reality, that I cannot live without. Making the characters chase a false hope, twist the very ideas and emotions, basically rewrite the world as they know it, leaving them confused and angry, and then the angst and stuff comes in. Yes, I'm an odd person.

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:59 am Post subject:

YESSS! I finally conquered my "angst-iety"! YEY! Now, all I have to do is..........*blabbers nonesense*

Is happy right now!
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--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

Vane · Newb Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

Humour. I thought I'd become a specialist in drama/angst/tragedy, but then I realised that it's hard for me not to add at least a few humourous scenes and dialogues to my stories, even the serious ones. Not that I'm complaining about it.

dolphinprincess · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:14 am Post subject:

Hmm, well, I don't write many stories, but my dreams so far right now have been inspiring me to do one. Anyways, the stuff I can't avoid is angst, humour (that's where my oc char, Ray comes in), romance, my characters dying (again, Ray) violence (violence=blood) and the whole magical-power-that-comes-out-of-nowhere stuff.

That stuff makes it so interesting!!
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WhereDIDMyStressBallGo2 · Newb Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

well, personally there is always one really random person who does crazy stuff in nearly all of my fanfics... it's something i can't get away from... Very Happy

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:08 pm Post subject:

There! The RANDOM word! I know what you mean. I already made up two stories with "the RANDOM" guy. It all ended up being weird.

All my ideas are silly. I wish I could set my mind to one or two themes then forget all the rest. Adding stuff that don't make any sense at all will make it weird.
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--Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas. But of a humble heart, the Lord wil not scorn, and from its abundance the mouth speaks.

--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.