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30 Days of Fan Fiction Meme, Day 18
Jul. 16th, 2011 05:28 pm18 – Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?
This is what bites me in original fiction and why I'm probably more a fan fic writer at heart. I get inspiration from pre-existing characters and situations, almost always as a result of thinking about the characters' motivation, personality, background, future, about explanations for inexplicable behavior, etc. As I think more deeply, the filler/fanon I come up with forms itself into narrative. Thus, for example, I wrote a Mirage series about Kagetora's sexual relationships with women because this is something that exists in canon (historically, he was married twice), but as far as I've read, it's not much dealt with, and this leaves a gap for considering how his background, personality, neuroses, etc. would play out in these relations.
Occasionally I'm prompted toward AU to "fix" things, as in Blake's 7's PGP genre (of which I've actually only written one). Banana Fish demanded similar treatment; I just couldn't take it! For different reasons, Please Save My Earth was the same: I'd loved that story, and I just couldn't handle where it ended up.
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This is what bites me in original fiction and why I'm probably more a fan fic writer at heart. I get inspiration from pre-existing characters and situations, almost always as a result of thinking about the characters' motivation, personality, background, future, about explanations for inexplicable behavior, etc. As I think more deeply, the filler/fanon I come up with forms itself into narrative. Thus, for example, I wrote a Mirage series about Kagetora's sexual relationships with women because this is something that exists in canon (historically, he was married twice), but as far as I've read, it's not much dealt with, and this leaves a gap for considering how his background, personality, neuroses, etc. would play out in these relations.
Occasionally I'm prompted toward AU to "fix" things, as in Blake's 7's PGP genre (of which I've actually only written one). Banana Fish demanded similar treatment; I just couldn't take it! For different reasons, Please Save My Earth was the same: I'd loved that story, and I just couldn't handle where it ended up.
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