That's a really hard question to answer! Sometimes news stories will spark an idea in me, for a full story or for just an element of one. Or something someone says or does.
When I wrote the InuKai scarf story, I just googled "scarf" to see what would come up and the first result was the Mobius scarf knitting pattern page. Which seemed so cool I had to use it.
Another time, I read a badfic story on ff.n where two characters meet in a particular place. The next morning, I woke up with an idea for a story that started the same way, but was completely different otherwise. (Though I'm not sure if I'll actually write it up -- too much other stuff to do.)
Ideas can just hit out of the blue. And sometimes I want to write about a certain pairing but don't have any ideas. So I sit down and make lists of ways they could get together or things they could fight about or circumstances they could find themselves in.
It's hard to say, though, why some things are just "oh, that would be fun to write" and others are "I have no choice but to write that".
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When I wrote the InuKai scarf story, I just googled "scarf" to see what would come up and the first result was the Mobius scarf knitting pattern page. Which seemed so cool I had to use it.
Another time, I read a badfic story on ff.n where two characters meet in a particular place. The next morning, I woke up with an idea for a story that started the same way, but was completely different otherwise. (Though I'm not sure if I'll actually write it up -- too much other stuff to do.)
Ideas can just hit out of the blue. And sometimes I want to write about a certain pairing but don't have any ideas. So I sit down and make lists of ways they could get together or things they could fight about or circumstances they could find themselves in.
It's hard to say, though, why some things are just "oh, that would be fun to write" and others are "I have no choice but to write that".