Seeing how the majority of us here can write fanfiction and that most of us tend to be pretty good at it, myself still pending, I'm curious - how do you develop your ideas? How do you get inspiration to write something new, be it a new chapter or a whole new fic? How do you get your ideas? Where do you get them from? A lot of us here, from what I've seen so far, seem to have some really weird yet strangely fascinating ideas in our fics and I'm curious as to how people would get them. Perhaps even a swapping of techniques can make us even better than the level of perfection most of us are already at.
I just realized what my technique is - when nobody else is at home, I walk around my house talking to myself. If there are people at home, I go into the washroom. I recite to myself the possible lines my characters would say in certain cases. If my fic has anything military related, I may put myself 'in-character' and actually do things. Hell, if somebody was to install cameras in my house, there would probably be a good ten hours worth of me jumping over my couch or rolling off of my bed screaming 'suppressive fire!' and pretending to be firing a fully automatic weapon at the imaginary machine gun nest set up across from me.
Or, at least I think it's imaginary...
Most of my ideas, particularly those Love Hina related and likely to never see the light of day, often are based off of other fics. I occasionally read one that has some rather memorable parts and characteristics and I work off of them. Actually, after reading Hawk's post about some idiot copying his fic, I'm now even more sure those ideas I have in my mind will indeed never even see the grace of a new document...plagiarism is not funny and I certainly do not want to be on the receiving end of the author and his buddies.
I also wanted to ask, because a few nights ago I suddenly developed the framework and general idea for a sappy, drama/romance Love Hina fic. While playing Tetris. Seriously, WTF?! Does anybody else have strange...moments...like that? Just curious...if so, great, since I'm not the only one that has those.
So...discuss, share, whatever. I'm always a bit curious to see what goes through all of our minds when we're in the area of writing. I figure I could learn a thing or two about writing from everybody else here.
I just realized what my technique is - when nobody else is at home, I walk around my house talking to myself. If there are people at home, I go into the washroom. I recite to myself the possible lines my characters would say in certain cases. If my fic has anything military related, I may put myself 'in-character' and actually do things. Hell, if somebody was to install cameras in my house, there would probably be a good ten hours worth of me jumping over my couch or rolling off of my bed screaming 'suppressive fire!' and pretending to be firing a fully automatic weapon at the imaginary machine gun nest set up across from me.
Or, at least I think it's imaginary...
Most of my ideas, particularly those Love Hina related and likely to never see the light of day, often are based off of other fics. I occasionally read one that has some rather memorable parts and characteristics and I work off of them. Actually, after reading Hawk's post about some idiot copying his fic, I'm now even more sure those ideas I have in my mind will indeed never even see the grace of a new document...plagiarism is not funny and I certainly do not want to be on the receiving end of the author and his buddies.
I also wanted to ask, because a few nights ago I suddenly developed the framework and general idea for a sappy, drama/romance Love Hina fic. While playing Tetris. Seriously, WTF?! Does anybody else have strange...moments...like that? Just curious...if so, great, since I'm not the only one that has those.
So...discuss, share, whatever. I'm always a bit curious to see what goes through all of our minds when we're in the area of writing. I figure I could learn a thing or two about writing from everybody else here.