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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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12-02-2010 02:31
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green
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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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02-03-2010 14:40
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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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