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"Where
I get my ideas from"
I get my ideas from
a variety of sources; usually from real-life incidents, or things
I see from movies. it doesn't really matter, because I'm still
learning and training myself. Once I get more experience from
handling ideas and creating complete stories from them, more ideas
should follow. To foster this, my current aim is to work my way
through all the genres, producing short stories based on my interpretation
of each genre. The challenge, I suppose, is to avoid falling into
a cliched reworking of something. That said, so far it has been
a success - most of my stories cross-over into other genres, which
is a good sign of diversity and being able to mix a variety of
themes.
Here's a list of where
the ideas for each of my stories came from:
-
Shirley's
Story - My house is fairly close to the train station,
and while by day you can't hear them, by late night you can
hear the clicky-clack noises of the trains. There was a period
of time when I couldn't get to sleep until late at night,
so lying in bed listening to these noises, this story just
popped into my head. Pretty dark stuff.
-
A
Chinese Ghost Story - Based on a ghost story by a Chinese
writer, Po-Tsun-Ling. This story is so famous and well-known
that I had to give it a shot.
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Twins
- This story was done for a competition, and the inspiration
came from me reading a description of a Rumiko Takahashi short
story, called "Diet Goddess". It's the story of a
girl trying to lose weight so she can fit into a dress to go
dancing with her dream date. I never actually read the RT short
story, so I felt free to give my own spin on it. Looking at
the final product, RT's story was probably miles better.
-
Air
+ Space - I wanted to write a romantic comedy, so I looked
for the most basic of all plot devices in a romantic comedy.
A girl and two guys. That said, I think skywriting is very cool,
and the two sort of merged.
-
A
Short Ghost Story - I heard this ghost story off a friend,
though I changed it quite a bit because the story I was told
was harmless, just a little unsettling. The ambience of the
story made it seem something bad was going to happen,
so I had to change it to accomodate that. That said, ghost stories
are probably better told than drawn - after all, I don't
know what scare's you most, but your imagination does.
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Keeper
of the Soul
- This was the FIRST story I ever came up with. I was about
16 then, and wanting to think up a plot for a video game, which
could also double as the plotline for a computer game I was
programming for a school project. I wanted to do a fantasy plotline
because I was inspired by the Final Fantasy games. The computer
project of mine was long gone, but the plot stuck in my mind.
Let's just say that since then, it has grown monstrously in
scale. Here is just a small part of it.
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