DOCSGIRL:
i really envy you guys that you can write all the bttf stories....i have to ask how do you do it? especially kristen tekva and hot for doc..how do you get your ideas? they are all so good....i get bad writers block..thats why i stopped writing great scott i'm in 1885...it was getting too hard to write...how do you come up with your ideas? can you give me some advice because i really want to write bttf stories...thanx!

BLIND SPOT:
Well, sorry 'bout not being as good a writer as Kristen, Tekva & HFD, but the best I can say is to first map out a full story in your head. What I like to do is get a notebook and just do a little list. Below is an example.

SPOILERS!

1) Old Biff steals DeLorean, goes home.
2) 5 AM takes out - test.
3) Goes 1885, midnight. Time circuits scramble.
4) Goes ahead to daytime. 1/1/1885, 12 PM.
5) Buford comes in Palace Saloon. They meet.

Okay, maybe that wasn't so good, but anyway, the point of short-handing is I now have a 'guide' to use as I'm writing the story.

Next I do a draft of it in handwriting, which looks mediocre at best! I read that as I type it up. The third draft -- revised after I'm finished typing it -- is usually what you guys will see on FF.net. Sometimes I skip the handwriting part, but I always do step 1 and 3.

However, some stories I'm on the 10th draft with and I'm still not happy with them. Some I'll change midway through (such as When Marty Met Dockie). Sometimes stuff just happens. Nobody's perfect.

JAMIE MCFLY:
Well, if anybody has read my stories, your would realize that I'm not the most serious writer. I just like to sit down at the computer and have a little fun. I guess that after watcing the movies for years you start to think some pretty funny things.
Me and my sisters. (Time After Iime and Clarence the invisible) have a strange little sense of humor. For years we've sat down to watch our favorite movies and can't help but 'make fun' of them. Well one day we were sitting down to Back to the Future part 3 and got a little crazy. We made fun of Clara the whole way through and when it got to the part where it shows Doc and his new family we couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Poor kids, they had to dress up all nice just to go hand a photograph to some stupid kid in a cowboy suit. And his girlfriend didn't understand anything." This is the sortof stuff we started saying.

I had just recently discovered ff.net. My sister came up with an idea. She said, "I think this family needs therapy!" We stared at eachother and 'Brown Family Therapy was born.

My Ideas, believe it or not usually come from my own personal experiences of experiences of others. We always tweak the situation just a bit to give it our 'Twist'. There's the stuff that comes from movies early drafts of the movie and most of all from my own imagination. Me and my sisters later went on to write more parodys. We decided to tweak the whole movie. Hence 'The Twisted Editions' was born.

Did I just write all that? Whoa...........

DOC LATHROP BROWN:
Well, Blind Spot covered it pretty well. My only advice to offer is that you must brain storm and come up with an idea that would fit BTTF. Make sure you write situations and dialogue that fit the BTTF characters and/or universe. Make sure that you're writing Doc and Marty, not people with similar lines.

And get your brain going. Got a toy DeLorean? Make sure no one is looking, and play with it until an idea crops up. Read other people's work, look at Trilogy photographs, etc... Do anything Trilogy related.

TEKVA:
I've found that if the story isn't bursting to get out, the story doesn't get finished. I've learned not to force a story. Time Change was a story I forced because I felt there had to be a turning point in Doc and Marty's new relationship in my BTTF universe before I could go on with other stories. It was a horror to write and it's not much fun to read.

If you don't feel it, can't see it, can't hear it, don't write it, 'cause if you're not enjoying it, no one else will, either.

DOCSGIRL:
thanx guys for your help...i hope i didnt hurt anyones feelings about what i said about kristen tekva and hot for doc...if i did i'm sorry i didnt mean to...and i was thinking about a story last night and i think i came up with something but i'm not gonna say anything yet until i know for sure

BLIND SPOT:
^ Nah, don't worry. It's true, but I was partly joking.

I mean, yeah, Kristen, HFD, and others are like The Beatels of BTTF fanfiction. But that doesn't mean there aren't other great writers. In fact, there's too many to name.

I know this is gonna sound a little too nice, but I honestly don't think there are any truly 'bad' writers. Hey, they had the courage to write it and post it on the Internet. There's a ton of people who'd never get that far. Something should be said for that.

HOT FOR DOC:
Moi? A Beatle of BTTF fan fiction?
Thanks, I didn't know you liked my stuff that much.
Yo, Gina -- you should wait for an idea to pop into your head, one that refuses to leave you alone. Then make a timeline or so for it and start writing. You can change things in the middle if you want, just have a basic format to follow. (But then, I told you all this earlier)

OUTATUNE:
Hey, what about me?

My stories usually come when I'm sitting on the toilet with nothing to do but stare at the ceiling. Don't ask.

DOCBROWN1985:
lol, nice outatune.

Great stories guys, I really enjoyed Spottys and Kristens, because thats mostly all I've read but I would like to read more

JAMIE MCFLY:
I'm like OUTATUNE.... My stories... pretty twisted. I get the ideas from everywhere! Mostly from other movies, books ect. BUT I USE A DISLAIMER! hehe

BLIND SPOT:
Mine often will come to me when watching the movies and/or posting here.

I'll wonder "Hey, what would happen if Marty did this," or "I wonder how George married Lorraine in the original timeline."

That's probably why many of my fics are gap fillers and the like.

DOC LATHROP BROWN:
Originally posted by DocsBabyGirl:
i hope i didnt hurt anyones feelings

Well you DID!

LOL. Just kidding! I couldn't resist. Hey, the way I see is to never forget a thing called humility. No matter how good you think you are, there is always someone out there who is better then you.

THE MAN FROM 1985:
The Way I Get My Idea's Is I Think About What you DONT See In The Movie,Then I Think Of What COULD've Happend,Turn It Into A Fanfiction!!!

I'm still relatively new to writing fan fiction, even though I've been reading fan fiction for some time before that. I think Kristen Sheley and Mary Jean Holmes will always be known as the legendary BTTF fan fic writers, and they have been a real inspiration for me. I've also read fan fic by Flaming Trails, Anakin McFly, Charles Murphy, Mike Mahoney, Tevka, and all of the newer ones at www.fanfiction.com - a site that I've become rather addicted to.

One of these days, I'll probably end up going through my fan fic stories, and finding ways to make improvement. I'm not into all the heavy angst, even though I've written a crossover story with Orwell's 1984 - and am in the process of writing a sequel to it. I'm also currently in the process of writing my own twist on what happens in the Hell Valley Universe. Writer's block will probably set in sooner or later - but, as for now, I've had quite a few ideas for fan fic stories.