User blog comment:TurtleShroom/My Career May be Dying (NOT QUITTING AT ALL, NOT EVEN GOING INACTIVE)/@comment-1024726-20100111224313

Basically my inspiration for most of my articles is interesting things I see in my life.

For example, I recently found out about Neptune's crazy wind speeds (600 m/s max!) and wondered what would happen if you launched a rocket from the depths of Neptune's atmosphere and made it fly in the direction of windflow before launching out of the atmosphere? Surely the winds of Neptune would accelerate the rocket.

That thought eventually grew into the idea of Mayor McFlapp getting trapped on Triton, launching a rocket out of a geyser and through Neptune's atmosphere, and getting catapulted out of the Neptunian system at unimaginable speeds. For the full idea, check the talk page of the Wikia Catastrophe.

So be inspired by real life! Research stuff, then integrate Fanon into it!