At 10:08 PM 11/05/97 -0400, Tempest wrote:

	So my question is this:

		What do you do to get in the mood for Fanfic Writing?

I just let the ideas gather, form, merge within my head, giving a project
months before I start writing it. I give my mind the time to connect plot
points within my mind, letting it all toss around for a while. Once I've done
this, I'll either eventually dismiss the fanfic as not worth writing, or
else the ideas will start to interfere with my normal daylife(ie, it gets
impossible to study since my concentration is shot by my mind regurgitating
the fic ideas all the time), anyway, once they start interfering, I start
to write, since by then it's the only way to exorcise the recurring thoughts
from me. Also, I ensure there's no interfering noise, no music, no-one else
in the room, preferably it's night, before I'll write. 

But that's all I do. If that doesn't make me feel like writing, I don't
try to force it any further. I just shrug, close the laptop, and let the
ideas swirl around my head for a while longer, knowing that they'll eventually
become so everpresent that I'll have to write them down, that I'll find them 
easy to put down.

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Mark Doherty  -  mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au
My fanfics are at http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzhdoher

"Kawaii must die."