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Day 19 – When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
Rare is the time that I can ever actually sit down and write out a bunny the moment inspiration strikes me. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a scene come to me so clearly and coherently that I immediately had to write it all down before it was lost to the ether. It just...doesn't happen. I'll have some fragment of an idea - a general feeling or bit of dialogue or hint of action - and I make a note of it, but I really have to nurse an idea to fruition 95% of the time.
Take, for instance, the current idea I'm poking around. (Let's just set aside the fact that I have more WIPs than I know what to do with, because...yeah. This always happens, and I've just learned to go with whatever the muse fancies at the moment.) I was poking around LJ a couple of nights ago, and saw an advertisement for a fanfic that took its name from a currently popular song. It was a big bang story, and each of its parts were labeled with lyrics from said song, one of which was similar to "for the first time" - which gave me an earworm for the song "For the First Time" by The Script. I hopped over to YouTube to listen to it, and had a flash of an idea - Mickey/Gloria, post-canon, meeting again after a very long separation (as the chorus of the song implies).
I'm intrigued - what could've separated them? did they part on good terms? are they meeting again on good terms? - but I haven't gotten far enough into the scenario to really find answers to these questions yet. It's a combination of the characters, the canon, and the song, and I'm still working on the details - like, for instance, the fact that I've never written this pairing before and barely feel like I know them well enough to do so. But I like the idea enough to stay on board and do the work necessary to see it fully develop.
So I guess what I'm saying is ~ the ideas are the easy part. Finding a way to realize them doesn't happen very quickly in my world.
( Other days )
Rare is the time that I can ever actually sit down and write out a bunny the moment inspiration strikes me. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a scene come to me so clearly and coherently that I immediately had to write it all down before it was lost to the ether. It just...doesn't happen. I'll have some fragment of an idea - a general feeling or bit of dialogue or hint of action - and I make a note of it, but I really have to nurse an idea to fruition 95% of the time.
Take, for instance, the current idea I'm poking around. (Let's just set aside the fact that I have more WIPs than I know what to do with, because...yeah. This always happens, and I've just learned to go with whatever the muse fancies at the moment.) I was poking around LJ a couple of nights ago, and saw an advertisement for a fanfic that took its name from a currently popular song. It was a big bang story, and each of its parts were labeled with lyrics from said song, one of which was similar to "for the first time" - which gave me an earworm for the song "For the First Time" by The Script. I hopped over to YouTube to listen to it, and had a flash of an idea - Mickey/Gloria, post-canon, meeting again after a very long separation (as the chorus of the song implies).
I'm intrigued - what could've separated them? did they part on good terms? are they meeting again on good terms? - but I haven't gotten far enough into the scenario to really find answers to these questions yet. It's a combination of the characters, the canon, and the song, and I'm still working on the details - like, for instance, the fact that I've never written this pairing before and barely feel like I know them well enough to do so. But I like the idea enough to stay on board and do the work necessary to see it fully develop.
So I guess what I'm saying is ~ the ideas are the easy part. Finding a way to realize them doesn't happen very quickly in my world.
( Other days )
