That One Thing Meme

[ladyfoxxx]

You know when you get that first idea for a fic, all shiny and exciting and you immediately latch onto ONE scene or ONE moment that you desperately want to write? Sometimes you write thousands of words JUST so you can write that ONE scene or moment

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[greedy_dancer]

The whole 4 Gerards thing was born out of the image of all of Gerard's haircuts in the same room. I just wanted them all to bicker at each other and talk about ~~concepts. And then... It totally got away from me and grew porn and feelings! lol

(But does it even count? Cause it's not like I ALWAYS had the BURNING NEED to see that. I just thought about it one day and went from there? Idk!)

[ladyfoxxx]

It TOTALLY COUNTS. You wanted that scene to exist, you wrote it, and a WHOLE LOT OF AWESOME PORN surrounding it.

Was there a spark for your Jamia/Frank/Gerard one? I am so curious.

[greedy_dancer]

I don't think there was? I like wives-fic, and OT3/OT4, so when I saw the prompt for RBB I thought I'd like to try my hand at it! And then I just listened to all the songs and got my ideas from there, it was really guided by the lyrics & atmosphere of the mix. I didn't really have an OT3 bunny that I always wanted to write or anything.

Generally the way stories start for me is with a line more than a scene - which is also why I get stuck so often! lol

[turps33]

Like I said on twitter. Grey Crimson Skies started with me wanting to write Mikey and Frank go to some kind of prom. There's so much seriousness in the stories that I just wanted Frank to spoil Mikey somehow, and I got the idea of their garden lit up and the two of them able to have a night with no responsibilities at all. It's what I was writing towards always, like I light at the end of a tunnel I guess. Of course they go back into that tunnel after but that one shining moment was always a goal. People did comment on the scene, probably because it does stand out a little, especially when the unicorn was also lit up -- I swear, that thing should get oc status *g*

Embers verse started with me thinking about a scene where surly Bob is nursing hostile Mikey. I had no idea how that happened at first, just I knew I wanted a story where they were bitching at each each other with Bob wanting Mikey out of his space, now. From that the whole sprawling verse was born.

[ladyfoxxx]

Oh god I completely understand bribing yourself to write all the OTHER stuff with the scene you REALLY want as a reward at the end.

Also I am so totally not surprised at all that your That One Thing scene in Embers is Bob nursing hostile Mikey. That scene is so great and one of the first things I think about in embers 'verse, right after the pink jeep and the extremely hot GSF.

♥

[ladyfoxxx]

Oh I almost forgot to ask - was there a That One Thing scene for Gross Roomies? Because OMG if there is you have to tell me!!

[turps33]

Gross Roomies. Ah, okay, there sort of was. I have this huge thing about people finding out stuff that has previously been hidden. So I first imagined a scene where Frank saw some evidence that Mikey had been experimented with kink. Him moving his arm and revealing bruises on his wrists etc.

That moment was a big thing in my mind, because it was the step between them just being roomies, and Frank suddenly being confronted about things he'd tried not to think about previously.

So yeah, a sort of big thing in that it wasn't actually concrete in terms of detail, but I knew what I wanted to show.

[akamine_chan]

I wrote 25k of mad science just so tentacle!Frank could have sex with Gerard.

And for one of my due South big bangs, I wrote the whole story around the lines Burnt-out city, broken land, dying world. The stink of soot and the bitter taste of ashes.

[ladyfoxxx]

25 000 words just for some tentacle sex? Girl you got GAME.

Those lines from your DSBB are gorgeous - are they yours?

[akamine_chan]

Yeah, they're mine. Those words start the story and drive the whole thing. The initial inspiration came from an awful Vin Diesel movie Babylon A.D., not the plot, but the overall atmosphere of the world they lived in. And those words just came to me. \o/

[ladyfoxxx]

Yeah whatever XO totally worked for me. Sometimes you just want to write what you want to read. Never fight it because it's highly likely someone else wants the same thing.

Oh god so adorable. Was there a That One Scene in Leather Studded Kiss? (Hahaha you totally saw that one coming)

[shinetheway]

YES THIS A SQUILLION TIMES THIS

[ladyfoxxx]

The spark is SUCH a good term for it. I've had it be a scene, a scenario, a line of dialogue, but it's the push to make you write it.

the scene that gets the most comments or the line that gets the most cites is almost always the spark. That is SO cool - you obviously put a lot into it and people pick up on that!

I immediately write that scene first, and then start filling in the blanks of how it got there

WOW. I very rarely do that! I think I mostly need to write fic in chronology or IDK I guess I get worried I'll lose motivation to write the rest if I get my favourite part out first or something. Oh that is SO interesting.

[shinetheway]

I think--I think maybe it's that I'm scared that if I don't capture it, I'll lose it? I like writing fic in order, one bit after another, for a lot of my short stories, and in fact everyone I know who writes that way, especially the long fics, I just think their fic is incredibly well done, tightly plotted, cohesive, organic and *meaningful*. But then I try to write long fics that way, force myself to ignore the spark that gave me the idea in the first place and start at the very beginning and it just feels...wrong. That one bit that I NEED to write, the bit that's flaming brightly in my head, I'm always scared that the fire's going to burn out and I'll lose it if I don't write it down. So I write that, and hope and cross my fingers and keep typing once I've written it all, so the momentum of writing usually sweeps me forward into the next scene. [helpless] Does that make sense

[ladyfoxxx]

That is so interesting. I totally understand where you are coming from with the angle of "if I don't write it now I'll lose it! I'll figure out how to bridge these scenes later!" I've definitely done that myself and some of my most prolific writing periods have been THAT kind of writing. I know when I was racing to draft deadline on my bbb or desperately trying to put down words on my Nano I was really writing that way - the okay I have this idea, I haven't really thought about it or how it fits with all these other scenes but I'm just going to put these words down RIGHT NOW