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Question of the day part 3 :)
RokofAges75:
Whenever I get a story idea, I type it up in a Word document and save it. Sometimes I'll go ahead and outline, develop characters, research, and make notes for when I'm ready to write it. Other times it just sits there as a vague idea until I'm ready to take it further. If it's an idea I can't get out of my head, I might go ahead and play around with writing a beginning, but I only post the ones I can't stop writing. I try not to have too many unfinished projects online at once, although I've been really bad at following that rule the last couple of years.
I don't have any special process for getting ideas. The best ones are the ones that just strike like lightning, out of nowhere. But when I don't have those inspired moments, I've succeeded in forcing ideas by deciding on a genre or type of story I want to write and just thinking on it until I can pull an idea together. Secrets of the Heart and Guilty Roads were both conceived that way, whereas Curtain Call was the inspired lightning strike. I tend to have better luck writing the lightning strike ideas because they don't feel so forced and contrived.
Rose:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on July 16, 2012, 10:51:13 AM ---So here is my question I've been thinking about.
When you want to write a new story, how do you get ideas? What is your process for choosing one to actually go ahead and write?
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I actually have a folder with various docs of story ideas I've come up with in the past. If I finish a fic, I'll pick from there. More often than not though, I end up getting inspired on a whim. And if the story challenges me, I noticed I tend to run with it a lot better than anything else LOL. JAD, RMTW, and now HWS, all had something new at the table in some way or another. I'm not claiming any of them, (well definitely not JAD) are amazing, but it's why it was written at a steady pace.
And then with collab ideas, it seems I get them a LOT lmao. Especially with Julie. We have a bunch of ideas we want to do once the day comes that we actually do finish Undead. :P
RokofAges75:
^ That's exactly how I am. And most of our collab ideas have come from jokes!
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 16, 2012, 11:19:32 AM ---^ That's exactly how I am. And most of our collab ideas have come from jokes!
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Our collab ideas are epic LOL. That's why they come from our fun but insensitive jokes!
myconfession:
Here's a fun one... how far do you take your hatred of someone when it comes to fan fiction? (ie: Leighanne or even a BSB fan).
Figured that would bust out the clowns and rainbows.
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