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Dev_Binks
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7/29/04 6:10pm
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Here's to write down those little characteristics of fan fiction writers.
You know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When you always carry around a pad and paper...
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"Women are the farthest thing from Angels."
"There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most
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Lilith Demodae
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7/29/04 6:13pm
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... when you watch a sports car cut off a big rig in traffic and think, "Han would have done it with more style and less honking."
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Layren
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7/29/04 6:19pm
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You know your original characters so well you swear they're living in the house with you and you blame them when things turn up missing like car keys ...
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Herman Snerd
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7/29/04 6:23pm
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... when you watch a sports car cut off a big rig in traffic and think, "Han would have done it with more style and less honking."
LOL!!!
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JadeSolo
Title: Liberated Fan Fic mod
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7/29/04 6:24pm
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...you read the FoxTrot cartoon on your calendar, in which Jason gets a brain freeze, and the first thing that comes to mind is not laughing at the punchline, but at the fact that you recently wrote a vig in which your OC has a brain freeze from ice cream.
...you see certain names when reading books or whatever, and you immediately think of well-known characters from fics you love.
...something happens to you or someone else and you automatically file it away for later use in a fic.
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"May God bless you and keep you always...I mean that in a civic deist way." -Prof. Siegel
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Dev_Binks
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7/29/04 6:32pm
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I'm guilty of that last one
Word is the most used program on your computer.
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"Women are the farthest thing from Angels."
"There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most
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Thumper09
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7/29/04 6:39pm
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...you use SW cuss words in real life.
(Layren--I'm guilty of that one.
JadeSolo--FoxTrot is awesome! I have that calendar too.)
-Thumper
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DantanaSkywalker
Title: Manager Emeritus
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7/29/04 6:40pm
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Or, as in my case, Notepad.
You start using Star Wars swear words instead of real ones in real life.
Dana
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AERYN_SUN
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...when you sit watching AoTC IMAX, and all the while sitting there, thinking about how you could change and manipulate the storyline and characters to fit your story.
~aeryn
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DarthIshtar
Title: Former CR
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7/29/04 6:52pm
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1) You write a scene involving Leia and loss of a character, go to orchestra rehearsal, and bawl your way through the section of you playing Princess Leia's theme in the Star Wars Suite.
2) (This is my beta, not me) You create a Mary Sue so complex that she quotes Popes, Confucious, and DarthIshtar in the same paragraph.
3) (Still her) You actually check out dozens of books on marriage, pregnancy, miscarriage, and parenting, reading about 7000 pages for a story that lasts less than 100.
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dianethx
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7/29/04 6:59pm
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you watch the current political situation (whatever it is) and think about how Palpatine would twist it to his own ends. And then write the story.
you listen to bits of conversation and then try and figure out how to incorporate them into a SW fic.
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Dev_Binks
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You dream about your OCs
You dream about your stories
You will space out in the middle of a conversation because of an idea for a fic.
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"Women are the farthest thing from Angels."
"There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most
of them will have letters on them, and the vast
majority of those letters will be in the roman alphabet."
-Aaron Allston
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dianethx
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7/29/04 7:02pm
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you write a report for work and include a SW word in it. I really did this by mistake! Luckily they thought it was a typo.
you take what is going on at work or in your life and disguise it as a fic.
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Layren
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7/29/04 7:05pm
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Dreams sometimes give you entire story plots ...
LOL@Diane! good cover 
--You carry around a tape recorder to dictate a plot bunny idea just in case one strikes and you have no pen or paper to jot it down ...
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JadeSolo
Title: Liberated Fan Fic mod
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7/29/04 7:06pm
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LOL, what was the word, diane?
Once, I was typing something, and it came out "Sith." Then my boss was typing it, and it came out "Sith." I managed not to laugh aloud.
SW swear words - I say "Son of a Hutt!" a lot.
...you start thinking like your characters, imagining how they would react to situations and so on. But maybe that's just the sign of a good writer? 
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"If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory."
"May God bless you and keep you always...I mean that in a civic deist way." -Prof. Siegel
Let the music be your master/Will you heed the master's call
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obaona
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you get mad and you immediately think, "Oh, I can just kill Obi-Wan later."
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