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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)

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mare:
I thought I'd start a new thread in hopes that maybe people will come in and ask some questions.

Here's one:

Name one or more of your stories and tell us what inspired you to write it/them.

carterkid:
Switch was inspired by the Freaky Friday movies and Future Boy was inspired by another story I made with a friend.

Carter-Orange:
Games was inspired by Supernatural.  I'd just started watching it at the time and was completely hooked (still am), so I thought it would be great to write a story kind of like an episode of Supernatural, with Dean and Sam having to save BSB from monsters lol.

Save A Prayer was inspired by a couple of the action/adventure films I love like Romancing The Stone (an oldie but goodie!) and also Bear Grylls Born Survivor.  I thought it would be fun to put the boys in a real survival situation where anything could happen along the way.

Maybe Tomorrow (which is still incomplete and I've really neglected recently) was inspired by some of my grandad's war world two stories which he loved to tell and I found fascinating, mixed in with films like Defiance, Saving Private Ryan and other war films which I can't think of the names right now.   

emilo:
Forever started as a collection of fanfic that I wrote circa 1997-2000 with a group of friends at the time.  We had this intricately woven "life" we'd fantasized and written down in which we were married with children to various boyband members at the time....lol!   I found a binder full of little stories I'd written under the bed in my old bedroom at my parents' house.  I'd just been to a NKOTBSB concert and gotten heavily back into the fandom, and decide to write it all down and attempt to tie it together and grow it up a little bit, because, really, who has a child with each Backstreet Boy?  Seriously...I wasn't one of them, but a couple of the girls did in their stories! It's mainly a little piece of nostalgia for myself.

Falling in Love Again came to me while I was in the shower and I had it completely outlined in my head before I actually started writing it.  It started as an idea that the female lead could be affected by a tragedy that happened close to home (I live in Kentucky) a few years ago, and naturally Brian came to mind as her way to meet the Backstreet Boys, and it grew from there.

RokofAges75:
A lot of my story ideas stem from other stories, whether in fanfic, book, or movie form, but my favorite "what inspired the idea" story is for Song for the Undead, which started as a joke.

Rose, Dee, and I were having a group chat on Yahoo Messenger late at night, as we did most nights back in the summer of 2008, and the chat had gone quiet, so Dee asked, "Is everyone dead?" and I jokingly replied, "Yes."  She said, "Oh noes! Julie is a ghost," and I said, "I prefer zombie," which got us bantering about zombies.  Rose was still quiet through all of this, so I (again jokingly) said, "Hey Rose... Backstreet Boys, zombies, collab? *hopes to summon Rose back*" because Rose is such a collab whore.  And whaddya know... after some time, Rose came back, and we started talking (still jokingly, I thought) about a Backstreet Boys zombie story, in which the Boys survive the zombie apocalypse and fight the undead.  We were just joking around at first, and then it got to the point where we were like, "Are we seriously going to write this?  Well, why not?  It sounds cool; we should!"  So we did!  I think people who stumble onto the story nowadays probably assume it was inspired by The Walking Dead, but this was years before that was a show (it was a comic, but we'd never heard of it until the show) and before the current zombie trend - back then, who knew?!  I've learned through collaborating that some of the best ideas start as jokes LOL.

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