hmmmm this is kind of difficult to answer because a lot of the time it feels like inspiration strikes me out of nowhere!!! but if i dig a little deeper i guess some of my inspiration comes from fics that i’ve read recently; if i’m reading something and i really enjoy it, my mind starts to wander and i think things like ‘what if the characters had this dynamic instead?’ or ‘i wonder what this story would be like if it was in a uni setting,’ and then i just keep adding on more and more ideas until i have a whole plotline and world inside my head. it’s the same thing outside of my fanfiction too — the more i read, the more inspired i feel to write! i guess i just see people creating really cool things through their writing and i think ‘i wanna do that too! i CAN do that too!’

along with that i do also daydream a lot!! to the point where i feel like my mind will explode if i don’t write at least some of it down, so i just sort of let my imagination run wild and it comes up with all these different scenarios (which can come from stuff i’ve read, watched, lived through), and sometimes the ideas just live forever in my head, but other times, if i think they’re good and plausible enough, then i open up a google docs and flesh them out fully until Boom! a story :)

and i decide on whether the fics are multi-chaptered or not early on because, of course, some ideas are more complex than others so i’ll say ‘this would make a cute oneshot’ or ‘yeah this’ll probably have to be a longer fic’

i’m sorry that this answer was kind of all over the place and slightly repetitive but thank you for asking, i really appreciate it!! :) <3