[ SECRET POST #2425 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2425 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Kate Mulgrew as Galina 'Red' Reznikov in Orange is the New Black]


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02.
[Teen Wolf]


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03.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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04.
[Brendan Fraser]


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05. [SPOILERS for Supernatural]



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06. [SPOILERS for Arrested Development]



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07. [SPOILERS for Degrassi]



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08. [WARNING for abuse]



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09. [WARNING for eating disorders]



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10. [WARNING for underage/abuse/etc]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 (deformed kitten in picture) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Where do you all find your plot bunnies?

For me, it's mostly 'What would it be like if...' which usually results in world building and an AU.

Re: Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

Buried in the couch cushions. Sometimes under it, mingling with the dust bunnies.

No, usually mine just come from feeling like the source material has not addressed some emotional character aspect in a suitable way. Sometimes I'll "what-if" a plot, but usually it all begins with emotions.

Re: Another writing question

[vethica]

Mine are very infrequent and tend to latch on to random self-indulgent thoughts I have, such that I feel the need to write them into stories no matter how messed-up. Which is why the only two fics I've attempted to write over the past year have been weird-kinked smut.

Re: Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, whatever works, right?

Re: Another writing question

[caecilia]

Generator sites like chaoticshiny.

Just freewriting and seeing what stuff happens.

Sometimes just writing down my fantasies/things I'd like to see, and developing them into things.

Talking to other people about things.

Re: Another writing question

[kallanda_lee]

There's just weird stuff going on in my head, mostly.

Re: Another writing question

[inkdust]

Mine come out of nowhere, or from thoughts / inspiration that isn't direct enough to trace. Then again, I only write original fic, so I can't reference ideas springing from source material. But mine usually start with a character or two that I find too fascinating to ignore and build from there.

Re: Another writing question

[queerwolf]

For fanfic, stuff I want to see played out that won't happen in canon. Or an idea I wish canon had explored more.

For original fic, things that have been inspired by dreams or just my crazy imagination.

Re: Another writing question

[tasogare_n_hime]

Most of the time they show up when I'm trying to do something else and start gnawing on my brain. Other times I'll be inspired by something like a show, or a fairy tale, a freaking line I've just written, and they'll pop up and start breeding like, well bunnies before shooting off down thousands of different plot lines dragging me with them.

Re: Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

Generally it's my favourite tropes/themes but in different contexts. Like, found families--now with Supernatural! Or in Leverage! Found-family-up that Voyager mm hmm oh yeah.

And shoulda-beens. Not coulda-beens, those aren't as strong for me--but outright examples of writer idiocy, like "This entire season could have had its angst HALVED if this guy had just fuckin TALKED to the other guy in episode 3."

Re: Another writing question

[jaydestarlight]

Most of my fanfiction plot bunnies comes from my love of minor characters and fleshing out their characters appropriately. My original plot bunnies come from trying to explore "What if..." type scenarios.

Re: Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

I send a self-addressed, stampted envelope to an address in Schenectady, and they send me back a plot bunny.

(Okay, I totally stole that from Barry Longyear, because I can't come up with anything remotely as good XD)

Re: Another writing question

[blunderbuss]

Recently? Dreams. The dream itself is totally nonsensical as usual, but sometimes they give me kernels of really interesting ideas that I can build off of. And it's great, because I get these really out-of-left-field ideas that I would have never thought up consciously.

And oddly enough, sometimes shows or plots I don't like. I'd be sitting there being annoyed at it and thinking 'This would be SO much better if they did [x]' and then I start getting ideas on how I would do it. I'm planning my own version of Romeo x Juliet (the anime) because I loved the core concept but was so disappointed in how it came out.

Limyaael's Fantasy Rants are also good, because she repeatedly demands that authors actually THINK about the logic behind their world instead of just hand-waving it away as a genre convention. WHY are the elves immortal and other races are not? WHY do dwarves only live underground? Just by thinking on the 'why' you can start dreaming up all sorts of ideas and plots that revolve around those ideas.

Re: Another writing question

[(Anonymous)]

A mix of "That would make a neat B-plot to a nonexistent episode," "I wonder how [character] would react to [thing]," and odd little scenarios that come out of conversations with my fandom best friend.