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What inspires you?

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kissesxoxo:
Wow...my first one ever i got no clue, those were back in the days where  I would write it out on paper with a pen, prefferably during English Lit, instead of taking notes ( eeek there are teachers here, oops disregard that, I did my school work first promise).
First one ever online would hafta be when I found a yahoo group, and I posted a story written by me and two of my friends.
Orginally it was just for the three of us, because it was fun, but one of them entered it into a Fanfic Awards and it won two awards, I still love that story, needs to be badly edited though bc I didnt follow up behind my friends for their mistakes, I was busy catching my own lol.

I've always loved to write so that's probably the main reason I started. I have taken breaks here and there if
Im dealing with too much or I'm not happy. But I always come back because writing does make me happy, as does reading.

My inspirations come from everything that surrounds me, music, tv /movies, real life, something a friend might say.
Sometimes even just watching something around me like if I go to the coffee shop and am sitting there and I see something that triggers a thought .
If something's on my mind sometimes I try to translate it into a fic, often times I don't post them if its something serious, because Im always unsure of how people will take it.

~ Min

mare:
I loved reading all of those! LOL Keep them coming!

cabybakes:
I loved reading everyone's thoughts!!!

Usually, the thing that gets me inspired to start writing a story if I haven't in a while is running out of things to read.  But, I haven't been reading or writing much at all.  I feel inspired all the time, I am just limited on time.  I will hear someone say something that spawns an idea, or hear a song...or things will just randomly pop into my head.  I have tons of ideas but zero time, so I guess inspiration is a moot point these days.

RokofAges75:
I first started reading fanfic in the summer of 1999.  I read it for a few months without trying to write it myself and never thought I would, but I do remember what inspired me to give writing a shot.  I read this story that started out with Brian as a five-year-old, and it was the story of his illness when he was five, told from the point of view of his childhood best friend, a little girl... but then it turns out the whole thing is just her dream, and she wakes up in bed next to him, and it turns out they grew up and got married.  It was a sweet little story, but it was just a short story, and I was expecting something longer and was kind of disappointed that there wasn't more to it.  So I decided to try writing the story I thought it should have been, which became "Years of Grace" (which isn't posted on AC, but it's on my site).  I never finished the original version or posted it online, and it got lost in a computer crash except the first few pages that I wrote by hand (I still have those), but I ended up rewriting it from scratch and finishing it a couple years later; that is the version that's posted.

The first fanfic I finished and put online was "Heartache," and I don't remember the moment where I got the idea for that, but it probably came from a Lurlene McDaniel book called "Someone Dies, Someone Lives" and a fanfic called "Cardio."  I guess I got up enough guts to put that one online, which, in early 2000, meant finding a website to host it.  I got it hosted on a site called "Escape from Reality," and a month passed before I got my first piece of feedback on it, but I remember exactly who that feedback was from because the girl who sent it became my first online friend and the first person I ever co-wrote a story with.  It meant the world to me that she had emailed to say she liked my story, and my replying back to her got us talking, and we became really close friends.

I've never taken a hiatus from fanfic; I go through ups and downs as far as how much I'm writing, but that depends more on time than anything else.  I was really productive this summer, but now that school is starting back, I will probably only write on the weekends, if that, so my updates will slow down.  I have a lot of stuff in the works right now and a lot more ideas waiting in the wings, so it's never a matter of "I don't know what to write."  It's just "I don't have the time or energy to write."

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