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Somehow metafandom managed to link to my little rant and I feel utterly silly, but tickled pink! That someone thought my wrathful, ranty moment was worth commenting on is flattering, to say the least. And there it goes, that 'I want people to like me' thing rearing its ugly head.
*sigh*
I have a question for all of you and it derives from all of the writing I've been doing of late: commentaries and articles and fic, plus I'm unofficially participating in NaNoWriMo (3789 words to date).
When you write, how do you form your ideas? What's your inspiration? Actually, I think that may be too broad and insane a question, so let me re-focus; what's the most interesting, far-fetched or just plain odd and unusual source of inspiration you've experienced? Do you write because you want to write or because you have something *to* write? I assume the answer is both, but I'm just curious about some of the things that you think when an you get an Idea. It's a chicken and egg kind of question, and for that I apologize.
I'm writing original fic for NaNoWriMo and just turned in my IWRY fic to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chrisleeoctaves and I still want to write something else. tkp, I know, has multiple projects running and is constantly battling the impulse to start new ones. In that light, I want to know how specific is the impulse to write new stuff when you're in the middle of writing current stuff (as you see I still haven't recovered all of my words)? Is it just a vague idea for something? Is it a fully formed idea? Is it simple? Complex? What is it? What makes you decide to dive in and write a new piece, momentarily abandoning a current project?
I can't abandon my NaNo project. I committed myself to doing it. But, I want to write another original piece. It's called The Last Beautiful Girl. The problem, however, is that I have no idea what it's about. None. I just know the title. And I think it's creepy. But that's not unusual.
Has anyone else had that happen? You know you want to write, you've got a title or a character's name or a city or a town or a cat with green eyes and no left ear ....
You know? I know you know, so tell me about it.
ETA: But to answer my own question, and I so seldom actually do that ;) , the most interesting source of inspiration (for me) was probably the poem Jabberwocky which got Yours, Eternally off and running. I was re-reading Alice in Wonderland and I came across the poem and I thought how damnably creepy it is when you really think about it. I think that Forever had showed up on repeats and the completely eerie, creepy guy and the music for Peter and the Wolf combined in my head with that poem and that was it. Except for the decision on interspersing the text with the poem, a decision I AGONIZED over for days, it was probably the easiest thing I'd written to that point. It was such a strange mosh of things that had nothing to do with anything, I still couldn't tell you how it all managed to link up. :) That's what I love about creativity and why I love questions like this. Watching people pick at their brains to see how random stuff can just implode and give you Ideas!
*sigh*
I have a question for all of you and it derives from all of the writing I've been doing of late: commentaries and articles and fic, plus I'm unofficially participating in NaNoWriMo (3789 words to date).
When you write, how do you form your ideas? What's your inspiration? Actually, I think that may be too broad and insane a question, so let me re-focus; what's the most interesting, far-fetched or just plain odd and unusual source of inspiration you've experienced? Do you write because you want to write or because you have something *to* write? I assume the answer is both, but I'm just curious about some of the things that you think when an you get an Idea. It's a chicken and egg kind of question, and for that I apologize.
I'm writing original fic for NaNoWriMo and just turned in my IWRY fic to
chrisleeoctaves and I still want to write something else. tkp, I know, has multiple projects running and is constantly battling the impulse to start new ones. In that light, I want to know how specific is the impulse to write new stuff when you're in the middle of writing current stuff (as you see I still haven't recovered all of my words)? Is it just a vague idea for something? Is it a fully formed idea? Is it simple? Complex? What is it? What makes you decide to dive in and write a new piece, momentarily abandoning a current project?I can't abandon my NaNo project. I committed myself to doing it. But, I want to write another original piece. It's called The Last Beautiful Girl. The problem, however, is that I have no idea what it's about. None. I just know the title. And I think it's creepy. But that's not unusual.
Has anyone else had that happen? You know you want to write, you've got a title or a character's name or a city or a town or a cat with green eyes and no left ear ....
You know? I know you know, so tell me about it.
ETA: But to answer my own question, and I so seldom actually do that ;) , the most interesting source of inspiration (for me) was probably the poem Jabberwocky which got Yours, Eternally off and running. I was re-reading Alice in Wonderland and I came across the poem and I thought how damnably creepy it is when you really think about it. I think that Forever had showed up on repeats and the completely eerie, creepy guy and the music for Peter and the Wolf combined in my head with that poem and that was it. Except for the decision on interspersing the text with the poem, a decision I AGONIZED over for days, it was probably the easiest thing I'd written to that point. It was such a strange mosh of things that had nothing to do with anything, I still couldn't tell you how it all managed to link up. :) That's what I love about creativity and why I love questions like this. Watching people pick at their brains to see how random stuff can just implode and give you Ideas!
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Date: 2006-11-06 03:47 pm (UTC)From:Have you ever had a moment where a fic was just really resistant to being completed? You're not really interested or you've lost the impetuous, etc.? What's the longest you've had a fic on the WIP list? Is there anything that you've repeatedly transferred to the list at the end of the month? What's the record?
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Date: 2006-11-07 11:22 pm (UTC)From:When I first put together the WIP list, I did go through my fic and make a decision to delete some of the files that just didn't work anymore.