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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 12-02-2010 at 02:31:
How Our Fics Originated
Thought it might be fun to share how our various fanfics came to be. Perhaps inspire the others on this board to take a stab at writing their own.
So, I'll start with a couple of my own.
Kidnap started first as a little bit of something I wrote down (the part where Katse tells Mina to be quiet, and not all of her trembling is from fear), and some thoughts that percolated after watching The Stolen Gatchaman Information again. It didn't seem reasonable that they would kill the hostage before milking Dr. Borombo dry (he'd want to talk to her and have evidence she was alive). And I had this revamping of Katse and Galactor I wanted to take for a spin, so I did.
I let it sit and slow-cook for a while in my head. The story itself I wrote during a shift at my security job. (Empty building, nothing much to keep an eye on.) Lots of crossed out paragraphs and back-tracking. I knew Mina would get out alive, so all I had to worry about were the details. (Understatement.)
The appearance of Sgt. Geary was most unexpected. Really. I had a female sergeant, and next thing I knew, she was teasing Berg Katse. That was interesting, so I kept her in and developed her backstory. (My reinterpretation of Katse was as someone who could command loyalty, and who showed it in return. And who used that 280 IQ more often.)
Father and Son is the closest I've ever come to a bit of fiction that wrote itself. There are a few times in the show when Joe is really angry because Galactor has done something to upset Nambu. Which to me meant he might see the doctor as something of a father figure, and not just someone who saved his life. So I explored how that happened. And had to write New Brother afterwards to get Ken into the family.
Jun and Jinpei was my attempt to reconcile the contradictory notions of Jinpei's past. He was raised at the Shirayuki Orphanage, but found in the Jupiter Mountain range.
At some point, inspiration may hit, and I might be able to do more with Kentaro Washio. Make him less of a jerkass, or his motivations clearer.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 12-02-2010 at 03:27:
This is a good idea, UW.
I started Curfew, which is part of my Sacrifice thread, because I didn't like something in the first Top Cow issue of the BotP comic that was really Gatch with BotP's character names.
When the team received their first call to action, they showed what each team member was doing. Keyop was playing a video game. Princess was brushing her hair. Mark was working on his plane. Tiny was eating. What was Jason doing? He was in bed with a blonde. That irritated the crap out of me, so I wrote a fic explaining that scene. It wasn't what it seemed.
It was the same thing with Sacrifice. At the end of the comic, it was implied Jason had defected to Spectra. There was no way Jason would ever do that. I decided to write a fic telling what had happened to Jason, which is finally almost completed.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 12-02-2010 at 03:44:
Um.... which fic do you want me to talk about? I don't think I could list them all...
I guess my longest work is my On the Run series. I got the idea for it one night after watching the Bourne Identity with DH. I literally work up at 2 am and went downstairs to the computer to write out the entire background story... most of the stuff that appears in Remorse. Then I purposely went about trying to imitate the story-telling style of Lost, where I'd reveal little bits along the way, hopefully creating more questions but leading to an intriguing mystery. I think it worked somewhat... but I'm not going to claim to be as good as the writers on Lost. 
And then there's the Ties That Bind series which was started based on a idea kicked around Gatchamania: what if Red Impulse defected to Galactor? That's not quite what I wrote, but it's what got me thinking about that fic.
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Posted by green on 12-02-2010 at 05:09:
Well, UW, you know where I got 'Wild Roses' from - you!
It started as a discussion about a few things - our individual perspectives on the characters, Joe/Jason being labelled the team 'horndog' and why it seemed that a few writers teamed Joe and Ken in a relationship, yet Jun always ended up with one of them instead of another female... Yaoi vs Yuri... UW brought up the point that there is only one female on the team, so it was reasonable that inspiration within the team setting itself was limited. She practically dared me to write a lesbian affair after I suggested it would be a good idea for a certain other fic writer to explore - if I was brave enough to suggest TJ walk down that path!
The rest, as they say, is two posted fics, the third just waiting for me to format it, and a fourth in the works!
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Posted by Madilayn on 12-02-2010 at 06:18:
I get ideas from lots of places - sometimes a comment from somebody, sometimes from something in one of the episodes.
I tend to like to write "saga" stuff - and rather enjoy writing erotica as well.
Green - I don't see why a lesbian affair for Jun is so odd - in fact I'm writing a fic now where Jun makes it quite clear that she enjoys men and women (and is witnessed doing so).
My "Generations" arc came from a "so what happens in 20 years" thought and some of the happenings are very different to what I originally intended.
TJ and I started a fic together (which we should get back to) called Blackbirds that came to me as a "what if Spectra won and took G-Force captive" and expanded from there.
One of my favorites is "The Present" and that came out of a thought "wht if Jason got sick and tired of Mark and Princess circling each other and decided to do something about it".
SO I guess my main motivation for all fics is "what if"
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Posted by green on 12-02-2010 at 08:21:
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I didn't see Jun having a lesbian affair as odd, but that there didn't seem to be any fics that depicted one for her. Let's face it, there's quite a few out there that suggest Ken's gay and Joe, at the very least, has a toe in the Bi-pie. My question to UW was why wasn't Jun portrayed as experimental or out and out gay in any of the fics I had read? Why had the possibilty been ignored?
UW's answer did explain that to me, but at the same time she practically dared me to write one. Hence Wild Roses was inflicted upon you all! LOL Not to mention the several months it's taken out of my life and the probability my brain will never recover from the twisted position required to keep track of who was playing who as an April Fool...
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 12-02-2010 at 15:24:
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Nope, sorry. Straight fics/smut only for me.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 12-02-2010 at 15:24:
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I'm happy to restart anytime. I still have the story outline I laid out, if you've misplaced it.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 12-02-2010 at 16:08:
I started my Bloodline series on a whim. I love Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. I started wondering what if vampires and werewolves and the like existed in the BotP world. How would that affect them? Would it have any bearing on the war? What if Zoltar was fascinated by paranormals?
What if there was a deep, dark secret waiting to be discovered?
I use each seperate story to work in more about such a world and to begin unraveling the secret.
Speaking of which, I really need to get over my procrastination about Jason and Tara.
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Posted by green on 12-02-2010 at 16:09:
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Is this the famous Condor smut scene???
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Posted by Madilayn on 13-02-2010 at 08:15:
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I managed to find all that I had of it - and have your e-mails outlining a story line.
I've just sent you an e-mail with the word document of where we had gotten to so that you can refresh your memory.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 13-02-2010 at 17:26:
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I got it! I'll reply shortly...
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Posted by Becky Rock on 13-02-2010 at 18:12:
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Yeah, the one that still has yet to see the light of day. But I'm getting there...
Also, I want to reiterate Bloodline is also the result of my book Daywalker, when I was trying to get it published and couldn't and decided the storyline could be changed to BotP, but only if I added Anita Blake's world to it.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 16-02-2010 at 08:03:
"When lightening strikes" Came from a muck around ficcie that was cheesy, and TJ convinced me to make a real story out of it...
"Tangled web of life" series. Thats from things in life in cricles and people who surround me, and things I know lots about...plus I just see that everyone can stuff up badly and make a wrong choices involving important events in their life thinking thats its the right thing...and not everything is black & white in life. (to find it hurt the person she/he loves the most...and that because of these mistakes...all is not lost to them and forgiveness can happen...eventually.) Even for Ken and Jun who are least likely people to end up in this situation but.... it still happened to them.
Most stories of my start with a scene and go from there. I just write what I'm comfortable to write.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 16-02-2010 at 22:58:
Actually, a lot of mine start with a scene I can't get out of my head also.
The UN Affair started because I couldn't get the idea of Jason being forced to accompany Susan while she went shopping out of my head.
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 16-02-2010 at 23:50:
A scene is how 'Kidnap' started. Then it's 'how did this come to be, and what happens afterwards?'
The fun thing about fanfic is that you can rewrite an episode, reinterpret characters, even create an AU. And you can have the wildest crossovers imaginable, or the most logical.
LB, you should do one with Indiana Jones and Galactor. Given their tendency to hide under ruins and all. Heh.
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Posted by Madilayn on 17-02-2010 at 08:56:
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Same here. I have a whole folder of "scenes" that came to me that I had to write down - and then later expand into a story.
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Posted by green on 02-03-2010 at 14:40:
I've started a new fic (and a big Thank You to all who pitched in with stuff on that other thread!). This one was sparked by a single tossed off comment made by a co-worker that referred to certain, um, 'elements' of my teenage years.
At the time it was just a funny punchline, but then I slept on it...
I drive a fair distance to work and usually leave home around 4am when I'm on the earlies. It's a nice, peaceful, quiet time with few other cars and mostly green traffic lights (my favourite kind ). In other words, I can mull stuff over and the bonus at the end is a colleague who knows all about my fic writing and he's more than happy to talk through ideas with me while we wait to be let into the store (he's the one responsible for a lot of the 'terms' used in Wild Roses) .
This particular morning after the comment, I left the house with no idea for another fic at all (I'd hit a stumbling block in the one I was working on) but by the time I drove into the parking lot 40 minutes later I had the basic idea and had worked out the how, why and what would make it work. I knew I had something worthwhile when I started to tell Matty about it. I hadn't even finished the first sentence and he was laughing. By the time we were at the door we had worked through the major problem I could foresee and were working on how to, um, dole out the effects...
A lot of my fics seem to start that way. A comment, a night to sleep on it and a long drive to work...
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Posted by condorcandi on 25-07-2010 at 08:01:
To me, stories appear in partial form. I'll be going along, letting my mind wander (it always comes back) and a story or a character will show up. Usually it winds up in my original fiction, but sometimes it's fanfic.
Usually I mull the stories over for a few days. If they hang around and strengthen, I make notes. Eventually some become stories.
Once in a while I get something like the beginning of "Alpha & Omega" or "Danny Phantom meets G-Force" where the Muse grabs me by the collar, sits me down, and says, "Write this!"
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Posted by amethyst on 25-07-2010 at 21:31:
I've gotten inspiration from a wide range of places: pictures, songs, other stories, challenges.
One of my favorite stories that I wrote was inspired by a Jimmy Buffet Song, "He Went to Paris". It's not a song fic, but the plot of the story is parallel to the narration in the song, but in a different universe.
Then I've read other stories and thought, "Wow! What a neat idea, but I don't think those characters would be have like that." From there I start thinking about how the characters would behave in a similar situation and pretty soon a story develops.
Sometime something happens in RL that inspires a story, but more recently the reverse happened happened to me. I've been working on a story for several weeks and created a rather unusual event for a character, and then read about something very similar in the news just a few days ago (although, that involved a character from a different universe).
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