The thing is, there is a huge gap between stories that I want to write and stories that I actually do write. There were (and are) so many plots in my head that just never happened even though I really wanted to write them... and sometimes an idea just demands to be written even when it came out of nowhere...
Anyway, for me to want to write a fic, there has to be something that I like about it or that I find particularly interesting - a plot bunny, a situation, a particular character/friendship/pairing, even a moral question. There have been stories I've written simply because I felt there was a "gap in the market", so to speak - for example, I always wanted to read a fic where Kate survived the explosion, wasn't a bad person and she and Neal found a better fate - and since I didn't find a story like that, I eventually wrote "(Meet me) At the Crossroads". Sometimes I want to fill a particular gap left by the show, or to explain something from others' POV. I almost always include Mozzie into my stories at least in some small way, because I never get enough of him, I love his friendship with Neal (and June, and Peter...) and I feel like there isn't enough of him in fanfic. Sometimes I had to write a fic when the show left me in a difficult place. Some stories, I just wanted to explore a particular trait of a character or a relationship. Something I'm dealing with stuff in my life and it makes its way into a story.
So it's a combination of things, I guess.
EDIT: And then there's always writing for specific people, which I often enjoy simply for the fact that it's for them and I hope they'll like it :)
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Date: 2015-08-20 01:09 pm (UTC)Anyway, for me to want to write a fic, there has to be something that I like about it or that I find particularly interesting - a plot bunny, a situation, a particular character/friendship/pairing, even a moral question. There have been stories I've written simply because I felt there was a "gap in the market", so to speak - for example, I always wanted to read a fic where Kate survived the explosion, wasn't a bad person and she and Neal found a better fate - and since I didn't find a story like that, I eventually wrote "(Meet me) At the Crossroads". Sometimes I want to fill a particular gap left by the show, or to explain something from others' POV. I almost always include Mozzie into my stories at least in some small way, because I never get enough of him, I love his friendship with Neal (and June, and Peter...) and I feel like there isn't enough of him in fanfic. Sometimes I had to write a fic when the show left me in a difficult place. Some stories, I just wanted to explore a particular trait of a character or a relationship. Something I'm dealing with stuff in my life and it makes its way into a story.
So it's a combination of things, I guess.
EDIT: And then there's always writing for specific people, which I often enjoy simply for the fact that it's for them and I hope they'll like it :)