Story ideas

[lily_everhart]

I have a few LGBT stories I'm currently in the midst of brainstorming ideas for. I'm hoping to get outlines done this week and pump out a few chapters for one of them soon. Picking and choosing is hard but it will be whichever seems the most interesting to me when I finish the brainstorming/outlining process.

One is a fairly fleshed out steampunk story with a gay romance subplot. I have the four characters mapped out and a general sense of where the story is going to go. The characters have been in my head for quite some time but they disappeared for awhile while I worked on other stories. I've been thinking about them lately and have decided that I'm going to give it a go. I'm hoping to make this one publishable but we'll see how that goes.

The second story is a lesbian story and is a side story to a larger universe that I created for a massive book series I'm slowly working my way through (10 books massive). I'm actually unclear how long this story will go. I actually think it might end up getting written first simply because it will probably end up being a short story rather than a novella/novel.

It's been awhile since I wrote anything other than het so we'll see how this goes. The new year is seems to be going well so far for my creative juices. I've been working on my giant series so long it's great to be doing something different.

I also have several fanfic ideas but nothing substantial enough to talk about too much. I would love to get an Alibaba/Kougyoku story written because I have been obsessed with them lately. In the same series I would also like to write a ton of Titus/Sphintus fic since there is nothing for something that is practically canon.

I also have been interested in Star Wars fanfiction lately specifically Poe/Finn but I think I might go to the dark side and write some Kylo Ren/Hux (but those would be fairly dark).

I might write some Bravely Default fanfics when I finish the game specifically Tiz/Ringabel and Edea/Agnes but that's just written down as maybes and everything else comes first.

Other than that I have a couple Rei/Minako (Sailor Moon) fics I promised people forever ago and I should definitely try to get those done asap. I also am looking through Yultide New Year's Resolutions prompts since I defaulted in 2014 and I'm actually interested in doing it this coming year. OH and I also promised myself that this year I would finish two fanfics that I never finished back in 2008 (yikes!) and get those up. One especially is so close to being done it will probably take me a day to write it and another day to edit the whole thing and repost it (so maybe that should be top priority).

Deadlines are a problem for me so I'm going to be making some personal deadlines that I hope to keep throughout the year. I'm working on that at the moment. I'm brimming with ideas but I don't want to fizzle out. I tend to abandon fanfic ideas in favor of my original stories so we'll see how much of this gets written in the next few months.

Comments

[starsandbread.livejournal.com]

Seems like have really a lot of ideas in your head. I know that from myself too. too mnay ideas, too less time to write them all D:
I have a really hugh collection of prompts and ideas in my tumblr and sometimes I look through them and think "I want to write them all"

Personal deadlines are the best. Usually these are the ones that easily keept and not the ones you wrote down somewhere.
I made a few to myself and for me they are more a motivation while the ones I wrote down somewhere are the ones that are a bit od demotivating like you see them and think "Oh no. Well I have enough time. Do that later".

I am always impressed when people are writing original stories *-* I've tried it a few times but usually I lose interest so fast D:

[jazibelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I always have so many ideas and most of them will probably not be written either because I lost interest or other projects simply are more important to me. I have to be careful about writing too much at one time. I used to write several stories at the same time and that ended in a lot of half finished stories.

I agree with what you said about personal deadlines. Every time I've written down a deadline or told someone I wanted it done by this time it never seems to get done. Sometimes it's not even my fault, it's just life gets in the way and I don't have the time to write. Quickest way to get me to not do something.

I love doing original stories more than fanfiction actually. Nearly all my unfinished stories are fics I lost interest in. I love creating my own world and characters. There's a freedom there that isn't there with fanfiction at least for me because I try to be as canon compliant as possible in my fics.

[found-world.livejournal.com]

Do you ever watch a show that has a sad scenario, or play a game that has a sad scenario, and think to yourself, "I wish this other thing had happened instead" and that is where some of your ideas come from?

[jazibelle.livejournal.com]

Yes, sometimes I don't even realize where it comes from until I re-watch or re-read it (or play in the case of video games). I've definitely done it for fic before. I think sometimes the biggest inspiration is when an author does something I don't like or feel that what they did weakens the story. I think that has inspired me a lot because it can inspire me to work with an idea or scenario that I wouldn't have thought to do on my own. Also it's not necessary a sad scenario that has caused that reaction but sometimes a happy scenario that feels out of place.