As with all memes, stolen from basically everyone on the internet.

[magibrain]

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious but you have no idea about, or something obscure you just have to know. Ask away. All topics, within reason, are open for discussion.

I'm posting it on my fandom journal, but non-fandom questions are totally welcome.

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[magibrain]

Heh.

I've joked before that 80% of my writing is spite-based, which is... erm, pretty accurate. (Spite, pride, and being highly suggestible, man. They get me into more trouble...)

As a slightly less glib answer, they often come from seeing a canon do something badly and thinking "I could do better. I will do better." (which is where Beneath a Beating Sun came from; I really wanted a better exploration of death/politics/alienness/ascension than SG1 gave us), or wanting to tweak people's expectations (half of my friendathon offerings, especially Over Beers And Brandy and Hair Products: I explicitly wrote those to subvert the prompt as I read it). And sometimes it's just an idea that grabs me and I want a way to explore it, so I incubate it in a fic. (A Long Drawn-Out Breath an and Impossible Sky was one of these.) And sometimes it's a challenge to myself. Damaged People only happened because I wanted to see if I could mash up two different canons and bewilder a friend of mine. And then it kept happening because I wanted to see how many canons I could cross over. (I think it got up into the 20s, including Google's fictional moon base from one April Fools Day years back.)

And, I mean, let's be honest here, there's a good sampling of my fic that's just "Let's prod these characters and see what noises come out! 8D"

As for actual inspiration... man, everywhere. It's the metaphor of the brain that's a junk drawer, and things just get tossed in there. Sometimes it's news stories, or random phrases that pop into my head, or other fics, or questions I have, or, you know, odd wardrobe decisions I can't quite figure. And then they accrete things like snippets of poetry or Linguistics texts, and that one look Jack gave to Kawalsky in the pilot, or a bit of history or politics that doesn't seem like it would have played out that way, and hey, all that stuff could make for great drama if you threw in a staff blast here and there. It's very... disorganized. Perhaps too much so to generalize about.

As for goals... eh. Sometimes they're helpful, but generally they're helpful in the getting-myself-out-of-a-run way and not the providing-a-roadmap way. There's been a certain amount of planning in most of the things I've done, but it's usually come in around the third act when I'm going back and revising and making things fit. Careening blindly forward with a vague idea of what I want to accomplish is my MO.

[ravenholdt]

Sweet.

Thats a great answer. Thanks. :)