Fanfic Ideas and the Creative Process... (was Quidditch!Ron)

[Amber]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:
> I could go on and on ad infinitum but I'm sure you've had quite 
> enough. What I'm trying to say is that for all the ideas, 
> experiences, thoughts, and joys, that I possess there are words but 
> not context. There's no story, just a regular life. How can I make
> my life something worth reading about. How do I encorporate it with
> my dreams, and my *very* active imagination? That's what I hope to
> find out some day. That's why I dreamed of being a writer as a kid,
> and it's why that hope still glimmers as I grow older and find more
> and more responsibility and expectation on my shoulders.

I don't know if you're truly asking for advice, but I'll throw some 
your way. Write all your thoughts, memories, experiences in a journal 
of sorts. Doesn't have to make sense, but make sure you write the 
feelings, words down. Maybe not now but someday you might discover a 
character and a plot that takes your brain by storm. You can 
incorporate those past thoughts into the personality of your 
character.

Stories are made up of regular life, in my opinion. Injecting your 
view on things makes the characters more real and identifiable.

> Hmmm this seems a *really* pointless post, and I could just hit 
> delete, but for some reason I'm going to post it anyway. Hope I 
> didn't bore you.

No, Scott, it was a wonderfully romantic post. I sighed in all the 
right places (especially the ones mentioning the theatre - there's 
nothing like the theatre). It was a tremendous pleasure to read.

~Amber