What inspires you when you write?

If you mean in general, I would say it came from a need to excercise my right-brain (since my job requires me to be in left-brain mode all day). Doing something creative brings me into balance. However, if you mean to ask what inspires me to write about GI JOE, then I would say the answer is two-fold: first, to relive a part of my childhood; second, to fantisize over some of the unfinished story arcs.

Do you base your stories on semi-real or real army policies and procedures?

Absolutely, I'm a Navy-Brat, so anything less than authentic would be unacceptable - in so much that it does not conflict with cannon.

Or do you use the cartoons/comics as a reference?

Well, my storylines take place where the Sunbow series leaves off (about 20 months after the movie). It is an imagined 3rd season so-to-speak. As a result, I pull exclusively from the Sunbow cartoon-verse. That is, I reject DIC's continuity, and I use nothing from the comic books.

Or do you just wing it to fit the story?

I would argue that part of the creative process includes "winging it". So I wing it as long as it lines up with cannon. The advantage of following Sunbow is that most of the characters are so under developed that, in many cases, I will have to effectively come up with OC's for the majority of my episodes. I have a lot of free reign to play around with.

edit: I do pull from the filecard information supplied with the action-figures to fill in some character holes. However, after about the second generation, they started sneaking in stuff from the comic-verse into the toy line. Needless to say, anything to that effect I disregarded also. :p

But seriously, I've been the creative sort for all my life with a fairly wild imagination that is kept fed with books, comics, and Japanese Animation.

I cannot say what Inspires me to write, I just do it.

I have no knowledge of real military policies and proceedures, all I do is follow a logical course with what I have.

Winging it is manditory. But everything better be fallin' into place the more you work on your story (i.e. rewrites), or otherwise it will not appear to have any rhyme or reason to exsist. I haft to be careful in that reguard.

Darren Brimhall

(the writer of all those aliens running around)

But seriously, I've been the creative sort for all my life with a fairly wild imagination that is kept fed with books, comics, and Japanese Animation.

I cannot say what Inspires me to write, I just do it.

I have no knowledge of real military policies and proceedures, all I do is follow a logical course with what I have.

Winging it is manditory. But everything better be fallin' into place the more you work on your story (i.e. rewrites), or otherwise it will not appear to have any rhyme or reason to exsist. I haft to be careful in that reguard.

Darren Brimhall

(the writer of all those aliens running around)

Darren Brimhall

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