Re Reversebang, I found myself getting flustered by all the many many gorgeous pieces that were giving me no fic ideas, even though I adored them.
What helped me, after my first pass through, was backing off and thinking about what I want to write. Once I decided, okay, I'd be up for a modern or a fantasy AU but I don't want to do a historical one, I think I only want to do a canon story if it's light... that helped me look at the art again, this time not hunting for the pieces that were most immediately appealing, but the ones that presented scenarios I could write for. After I did that, I went from "I could maybe write for two of these...?" to a list of fifteen. So maybe that would help? Maybe some things that don't jump out visually at first pass would fit a story you'd like to tell. I wish they'd required brief descriptions of each piece, because I think that would help too-- I found noting down what the art depicted gave me more confidence that I could write something for it. I love art but I'm not a visual thinker, so "moody vampire AU, unspecified time period" gave me more of a grip on whether I could write for that piece than looking at the art itself...
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Date: 2012-03-30 09:58 pm (UTC)What helped me, after my first pass through, was backing off and thinking about what I want to write. Once I decided, okay, I'd be up for a modern or a fantasy AU but I don't want to do a historical one, I think I only want to do a canon story if it's light... that helped me look at the art again, this time not hunting for the pieces that were most immediately appealing, but the ones that presented scenarios I could write for. After I did that, I went from "I could maybe write for two of these...?" to a list of fifteen. So maybe that would help? Maybe some things that don't jump out visually at first pass would fit a story you'd like to tell. I wish they'd required brief descriptions of each piece, because I think that would help too-- I found noting down what the art depicted gave me more confidence that I could write something for it. I love art but I'm not a visual thinker, so "moody vampire AU, unspecified time period" gave me more of a grip on whether I could write for that piece than looking at the art itself...