30 Days of Fanfiction: Days 18, 19 and 20

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18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?

A lot of my inspiration comes from the communities I belong to sherlock60 , fan_flashworks , comment_fic and watsons_woes .  So I'm presented with an idea and I have to work out how to make us of it.  Sometimes someone will say something and it will spark a sudden idea, fengirl88 I'm currently looking at you!  I suppose it's either a specific prompt, which I tend to view as a puzzle: 'what can I do with this; no, that's too obvous, let's try something different' or I'm quietly minding my own business and suddenly 'ooh, shiny'.  Butterfly brain.


19: When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?

If I'm working on a particular prompt I've normally been turning it over in my mind for a day or so before there's anything to write.  Sometimes I'll start writing at once, other times I'll begin and then return later.  If it's an idea which has come up from a specific comment I generally keep the email notification until I'm ready to write it.  It's rare for anything to be sufficiently concrete for me to write it down for future use.  The only thing I do keep notes about is research which I'm going to use e.g. arsenic poisoning in Victorian times.


20: Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?

Sometimes.  My "Unexpected Family" series was bunnied by a drawing of Sherlock and Lestrade with their two childrem. Introducing the Family And it also appears I get bunnied for fandoms I'm not even in (see above answer to Q18).