Some from dreams, certainly, though I suspect that that would happen more often if I was writing long form fiction full-time, as my head tends to dream about the things that occupy my attention. I get a lot of ideas from conversations with people, as well as considering "What if...?" questions in my own life. Some ideas I get from mass media, expecting that the plot will go one direction but then find it goes in another. In those situations, part of me really needs to complete the story as I imagined it. That can be in the form of direct adaptations - what you'd call fan fiction - or just in situations similar to what was set up in the original book, film, radio play, TV show, et cetera.
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shortynme posted on Apr 10, 2008 at 03:43PM
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." -Saul Bellow.
How true! Any cool stories of dreaming something before you wrote it? Let's hear where you get your ideas from! |