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 Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:16 pm
I MEMORIZE THE WORDS TO THE PORNO MOVIES. I thought it would be interesting to know how people start their stories. So thus I started this topic. >_> Might at least get some people to talking and whanot. x3 And it's good when that happens~! ^_^
Anyways, personally, when I start to write a story, there are two ways it happens...
1) The idea comes to me suddenly and I pick up a piece of paper and start writing down whatever comes to mind that would happen in the story, or I be sure to never forget it and keep the main idea stored in my head for later uses. Then as soon as I can I get on the computer and start to write outlines for each chapter.
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2) The idea comes to me and I just start to write. Usually this ends up failing because within a few chapters I've lost all inspiration and ideas for what to write about next. xD
So, how does everyone else like to do things when they start a new story?
>_>
<_<; IT'S THE ONLY THING I WANT TO BELIEVE.
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:13 pm
For me, it really depends on the story types:
Lemons: Dreams/Day dreams in bed
Fluff: food and games
Romance: Usually they just pop up
Torture: I'm usually in Fallingrain mode
(Poems) Sometimes my bunnies just hit me randomly. @.@ My main cause of spaciness.
I usually start my stories when I remember the bunnies. I try to get most of mine started on the comp. because I tend to lose things a lot. If I don't have writer's block, I write out the whole story. However, if I start and don't finish, I forget about it for a while or continue the next day.
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:48 pm
For most stories I write. I go about life as I usually do, and I try not to look for plot bunnies. Then, I usually find one somehow and I write it in my plot book. The problem is completing them. I'm such a procrastinator.
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:55 pm
I usually get ideas from songs I hear, or when I talk to other people talking about...well anything really...the sad thing is I usually don't have time to write the idea out in its entirety. So I have a lot of 'good ideas'
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:56 pm
-raises hand- Saph fails at writing anyways. I have tons of plot bunnies, which aren't really plots, but random scenes of Doom.
Which is why my ideas never finish. I mean, it's hard to write a fic based off a random scene of doom, right? =_=;;
I'm better at drabbles, which are basically Scenes of Doom...But not a lot of people like them, so...=_=;;
I have yet to finish a chaptered fic to date...-hides head in shame-
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:57 pm
-wonders vaguely if it's okay to spam on this forum-
Also, I get fic "ideas" from titles, phrases or songs/poems. Random facts of doom too, like "Taxi Cab Tales."
I...dunno about lemons. -hides-
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:58 pm
*patts Saph* I completely understand the random scenes of Doom, I get them too....I also haven't finished a chaptered fic to date. Fics are an illusive creature sometimes.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:48 am
I get inspiration everywhere. sweatdrop Lyrics to songs I've heard a thousand times but never paid any attention to before, talking to my friends, random mental images that are so beautiful or hilarious that I have to pen them down... that's why I dislike plot bunnies. I have way too many of them.
As for actually beginning the story, that's usually not a problem for me. Dialogue works well, descriptions do too, starting right in the middle of the action, or having a little part in italics at the beginning that's kind of reminiscing about the events of the story, but not really going into any detail until the story actually starts... eh. That sort of stuff.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:01 pm
My inspiration hits me in the middle of the night during my dreams or while I'm daydreaming. I store it in my head, and if I think the idea is still good after a couple of weeks--to make sure it's not cliche or anything--I start writing it down.
Then the beginning gets scratched out and revised at least ten times. And when the first paragraph gets done, I can finally go on to the next million or so paragraphs. XD
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:59 pm
I never, ever know when things are going to hit me. For my long fic, I had a vague inspiration from reading someone else's story that lasted me a few hundred words. After that it sat on my computer for weeks, and suddenly I just spewed out another couple thousand words one afternoon. After that it was a snowball down a freaking hill (with the exception of almost two years of impenetrable writer's block).
Songs and poetry tend to happen when I'm bored, and be inspired by who-knows-what out of the blue.
And in the middle of the effing night is a favorite time for plot bunnies to attack me... xp
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:05 pm
Funny enough, the begining of the story for me is always easy. It's the endings I have issues with lol. I get inspiration from everywhere, usually music, but not limited to it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:58 pm
My inspiration comes from notes I pass in German. And occasionally conversations on the bus at 6:40 in the morning. Mostly it's from whatever pops into my head.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:30 pm
... Frankly... ideas just sort of pop up... and I start writing, then of course somewhere I have to stop and think about what's going to happen, but the worst part is how to end... >.>
I swear, I get too many ideas!!!! crying Not enough time to write either...
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:31 pm
My inspiration for Zensekai had to come from my insatiable need to fix everything I come across lol. All my bad guys and villans evolved from my different perceptions of "Bad people" and my thoughts about pondering alternatives to the "immortals" in folklore. I met my pal Zipora, (co owner of my guild in my sig) and her ideas greatly influenced mine.
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