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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 28, 2021, 08:06:48 PM ---Do you guys tend to read or watch things that are similar to what you're writing (in terms of genre or subject matter) to inspire you, or do you stay away from things that seem similar to avoid inadvertently copying ideas?
What has been your strangest or most unexpected source of inspiration?
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I definitely do this. It's a way to try to keep myself inspired and thinking about my story even when I'm not actively writing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. In the 8 years it took me to write Heroic Measures, I would start watching ER for inspiration and inevitably get sucked into an ER marathon and watch more episodes (sometimes more seasons) than I wrote chapters LOL. But usually it's not that bad. For The Road to Bethlehem, I watched a few wilderness survival movies and episodes of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" and re-read the novel "The Ruins," which was what inspired me to want to write a survival story in the first place, although the plot details are a lot different.
As for strangest source of inspiration... it would have to be the medical fetish porn videos on YouTube inspiring AHTIM LOL.
RokofAges75:
Happy Saturday! How's everyone's day going?
I officially started Fallen Angel this morning! I was kinda waiting until I could come up with a decent first line, and I thought of one when I woke up this morning, so I wrote the first paragraph... and then went back to bed LOL. Imagine how much more I could have written if I had gotten up and made coffee instead! Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
Anyway, when I went back to sleep, I had a fanfic-related dream, which almost never happens (thank god). I dreamed that I remembered I had another chapter planned for The Road to Bethlehem that I forgot to write and was like, "Damn, I've been claiming to be done for almost two weeks, and I'm not really done at all!" But the chapter had nothing to do with Bethlehem; it was actually for another story I (in my dream) had written earlier and never posted. It was an AU or original fiction about a class of kids coming back together for their first day of school after a school shooting. I guess that would be influence of hearing about that horrible QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing the Parkland shooting survivors.
Anyway, I woke up wondering if I really had written a story that I forgot about, then quickly realized that was just a dream. But it got me thinking, if I were to write an AU about the Boys working in a school, what would their roles be? I am not currently planning to write a BSB teacher story, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 30, 2021, 03:33:44 PM ---I don't even really like the Beatles, but I know more about them than I ever cared to know thanks to my sister LOL.
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This is how my mother feels about the Backstreet Boys to a T.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 30, 2021, 03:51:00 PM ---For The Road to Bethlehem, I watched a few wilderness survival movies and episodes of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" and re-read the novel "The Ruins," which was what inspired me to want to write a survival story in the first place, although the plot details are a lot different.
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I Shouldn't Be Alive is wild! It's one of those shows where I'm like "this can't be true!" and yet somehow it always is.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 30, 2021, 04:04:19 PM ---Happy Saturday! How's everyone's day going?
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Started off my day by doing anything except writing since there's no "looming" writing deadlines in my life as far as PNecklace goes. Though I did wake up and go, "This next chapter should actually start this way and come before the last chapter I wrote." So I had a few ideas to start out, but wanted to sit on them for a minute. So I hung out with the husband and watched the Reese's Senior Bowl while we decided what to eat this week. He went to the grocery store and I started writing, but kept getting stuck on an encompassing noun to describe AJ's AJness, so I am here refreshing the forum again. I put a comment on it that was akin to "this is what I want to say, but I need a noun" and might just keep writing without the perfect word. I hate that so much... But there's other things in the chapter that have nothing to do with it, so it might be time to just move on?
So there's the good news, I suppose. Editing PBox did not derail PNecklace from being written, even after about two months off. I also have two friends that would be willing to beta read an OF version of PBox, so now I need to decide if I want to focus on that or keep writing PNecklace. I think at the moment I'm going to go with writing PNecklace since I have some pretty solid plans on the next ten chapters or so.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 30, 2021, 04:04:19 PM ---I officially started Fallen Angel this morning! I was kinda waiting until I could come up with a decent first line, and I thought of one when I woke up this morning, so I wrote the first paragraph... and then went back to bed LOL. Imagine how much more I could have written if I had gotten up and made coffee instead! Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
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How does it feel officially starting a new thing? I feel like a first line is always daunting. I always get stuck on what would be the perfect opening. I slept late too and it's totally sunny out. Maybe the full moon a couple days ago was just exhausting for all of us.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 30, 2021, 04:04:19 PM ---Anyway, when I went back to sleep, I had a fanfic-related dream, which almost never happens (thank god).
Anyway, I woke up wondering if I really had written a story that I forgot about, then quickly realized that was just a dream. But it got me thinking, if I were to write an AU about the Boys working in a school, what would their roles be? I am not currently planning to write a BSB teacher story, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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I like fanfic related dreams, they happen to me a lot while writing and then I hope I can remember the scenes in the morning! What don't you like about fanfic related dreams? Is it that yours are less "interesting plot elements" and more "I forgot table 34's ranch!!"? Because I hate those "I forgot table 34's ranch" moments. They will still wake me up in the dead of night and I haven't worked at a restaurant in five years at this point.
If all the Boys worked at a school... Hmm... Is this a high school, an elementary school, or a middle school? I think that would change my answers. Please note, I'm actively avoiding "music education" for their roles, because obviously they could do that. But offhand I could see Kevin as the principal, Nick strikes me as wacky science teacher material complete with DNA tie and lab coat for fun (today we get to blow stuff up, muahaha), Brian would be a math teacher (I went Econ originally, but couldn't think of what other History classes he would teach), AJ some sort of creative arts teacher (I can't decide between visual arts or theatrical arts), and Howie would make a great English, History, or Foreign Language teacher (pick your poison).
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on January 30, 2021, 04:36:18 PM ---I started writing, but kept getting stuck on an encompassing noun to describe AJ's AJness, so I am here refreshing the forum again. I put a comment on it that was akin to "this is what I want to say, but I need a noun" and might just keep writing without the perfect word. I hate that so much... But there's other things in the chapter that have nothing to do with it, so it might be time to just move on?
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My brain was determined to not move on until I found the correct word instead of the general vibe. Sometimes writing is exhausting. I found it, so carry on, y'all.
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