Inspiration/Concepts

[amazon_of_exeter]

Ok, just a little post wondering how other people come up with ideas for stories/arcs etc... I seem to be a little bit random, and depending on my mood at the time, then odd collections of words or objects/people that I see, start to get incorporated into a statement, which then gets expanded into a story...or the beginning of one. I am trying to be good and focus on writing one thing at a time, at least until I run out of inspiration at a given moment and need to focus on something else...

So basically I don't follow any set plot planning - one day i might try, but for now, I use whatever random concepts come to mind (very random at times....pink ferret in an egg...??)

Comments

[auguris]

My ideas mostly come from the fact that I have little people living in my head telling me what they do all day, and if I don't write it down I think I might go crazy.

Nebulous plots tend to form around clusters of characters, and I then have to wrangle said plots and characters into something coherent. Sometimes it works, sometimes I throw it in the 'oh god why' folder and never open it again. I didn't used to bother planning out where I'm going, but I've realized that I HAVE to or everything goes in the OGW folder.

[amazon_of_exeter]

do you ever find the OGW folder spits back out ideas that need to be read, that it leaves you itching to find out what happens next in them? And do they ever combine to form something greater than the parts?

[auguris]

Sometimes! There are definitely characters and ideas that I've been able to resurrect from the graveyard. It's just that the work as a whole, well -- you can fix a crooked cake, but you can't fix one that's been thrown in someone's face.

[amazon_of_exeter]

I can see that could work if you are lacking a cast, it would give you a skeleton crew.. (sorry...I do specialise in bad puns..!)

I love that analogy, perfect to illustrate an unfixable mess...just hope it's tasty!