All of the above, kind of! Many things coming up in the daily talk with D, a random song I'm listening to. Mostly when we watch our shows on Saturday night, it inspires some ideas for Sunday writing. Latest story actually came out - there's a pun in there somewhere - when I imagined what kind of role I'd love to see my fave actress in 3-4 years in the future. It's often about what I want to see or read. In fanfiction, there is so little of WMC right now that I need to do my share if I want any on a regular basis! There's this one author in this fandom who is kind of like what Martha was in TS, so whenever she updates one of her stories, it gets my brain going. Lately, getting immersed in the Stieg Larsson universe sparked some ideas for already existing fics. Whew. Stopping now ;) Wait. PS: Sometimes chocolate is the only bribe the muse accepts.
I don't have one way when it comes to getting idea, anything and everything can and does trigger them. All the things you mention above, plus dozens of others.
However, when it comes to the actual writing I'm very anal. The first thing I do is the header I have on all my stories for my website - title, by, author, blurb, genre, written/word count. I have a template in Word so I move from one to the other naturally. Once that's done and it's saved for the first time, I start writing.
99.999999% of the time I write in a linear way, i.e. I start at the beginning and go on until the end. Just occasionally I will skip about, but that's rare.
I write linear most of the time as well. Sometimes, when the story is carried along on dialogue, I might write that down completely and 'paint' the rest of the story around it. But in any other cases, linear works best and it's better for the story, too.
There is no 'usually' about how I start a story. Heck, most of the time it's started in my head before it every gets to a computer/piece of paper.
Anything can trigger a story or fic, anything! It can be something I see, a dream, an image, something someone says, a line on the radio... whatever. Then it evolves and mutates in my head into something more.
Most often I will have a general idea of beginning, middle and end before I start writing, but not always. Sometimes I just start with what I have and then go with the flow. It all depends.
Not really very helpful, is it? And quite haphazard for a scientist, but c'est la vie.
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Whew. Stopping now ;)
Wait. PS: Sometimes chocolate is the only bribe the muse accepts.
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I find it totally funny how many ideas I came up with while sleeping so far. My writing mind in overload is a scary, scary thing.
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However, when it comes to the actual writing I'm very anal. The first thing I do is the header I have on all my stories for my website - title, by, author, blurb, genre, written/word count. I have a template in Word so I move from one to the other naturally. Once that's done and it's saved for the first time, I start writing.
99.999999% of the time I write in a linear way, i.e. I start at the beginning and go on until the end. Just occasionally I will skip about, but that's rare.
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Anything can trigger a story or fic, anything! It can be something I see, a dream, an image, something someone says, a line on the radio... whatever. Then it evolves and mutates in my head into something more.
Most often I will have a general idea of beginning, middle and end before I start writing, but not always. Sometimes I just start with what I have and then go with the flow. It all depends.
Not really very helpful, is it? And quite haphazard for a scientist, but c'est la vie.
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