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cryptwarmer in elysian_archive

Where do your inspiration and ideas come from?

Feb 21, 2016 21:12

Mine tend to come from my own angst to make peace with something in the series. I want to get into a character's head, or flesh out a scene so I can understand the dynamic. It's like an itch that needs scratching ( Read more... )

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spuffy93 February 22 2016, 10:54:37 UTC

From everything around me for me.
A challenge, a situation at home, at school, with my friends, but mostly the ideas for my stories comes from rewatching Buffy or my feelings at the moment.
If I feel depressed I think of a fluffy story to write (not specifically about Buffy, mind you), if I feel wicked I write angst or parody... and so on XD
My mine fiction at the moment come from a moment were I could take no angst (in point of fact my story doesn't have much of it) and I needed someone else life go alright. So since using people as my own dolls is frowned upon in real life I use Buffy and Spike XD

sunalso February 22 2016, 16:19:13 UTC

I honestly have no idea- sometimes a challenge can spark a story- but what I write isn't 1% of the ideas I come up with. They just spring fully formed out of the ether and play through my mind when I'm going to sleep, or commuting, or in the shower. I've always done it- telling myself this long, complicated stories in my head- just lately they've all started Buffy and Spike, and I finally decided to risk putting some of them on paper.

rebcake February 24 2016, 08:35:20 UTC

Heh. The shower, definitely. I think it's because there's nothing in there upon which to jot down notes, dang it. Though I've also had stories spring to mind while cooking.

pfeifferpack February 27 2016, 03:20:50 UTC

Oh yes! Exactly so. They "talk" to me sometimes. I've always "written" stories in my head and rarely am I a character in them LOL. I used to go to sleep telling myself these stories.

I think the first time some characters were inspired by something on TV or books was back in the 1960's with Dark Shadows (what is it with vampires? LOL). I never wrote any of the stories down but they played out in my head.

Then along came Btvs and they took over most of the mental stories. I finally literally took up pen and paper and voila!

I keep a small notebook near most of the time now and have for years since I started writing. Bits of dialogue, ideas, insights pop into my head all the time at work and rest (even in my sleep, waking me) and I jot down the notes for later.

Kathleen

rebcake February 24 2016, 08:44:51 UTC

I've often been inspired to write something in response to fandom discussions, but usually only when I disagree with some point or other. Then I have to puzzle out why I disagree, and that usually leads to a story to illustrate how I see it. Prompts will also, um, prompt things sometimes. I don't like to do fic exchanges, because of the pressure, but I've come up with some things that way, anyway. Oh! Once there was an art prompt in which banners were created and then people had to write a story to go with the banner. That was fun.

But sometimes the inspiration comes from everywhere and nowhere. The show, a movie, a trip, and conversation, or watching an awards show. It's all grist for the mill.

pfeifferpack February 27 2016, 03:11:37 UTC

They come from everywhere. Real life, history, a conversation, thinking of an episode and wondering "what if", someone else's story or a conversation online are all inspiration. Sometimes a dream will spark an idea. I jot notes all the time and often those grow to a full blown idea ( ... )