Inappropriately timed plot bunnies

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I would not dishonor the escapees.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My plot bunnies always show up when I'm in the middle of a story and suddenly disappear when it's time to start a new story ...

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've done it a couple of times.

Once in the rain. Do not recommend, extremely muddy. I mean, still fun, but also muddy. And if you're familiar with Alabama soil, you'll know there's high red clay and iron components. It can smell like blood sometimes due to the iron. And red clay is really hard to get out of clothes.

I've never done it, but in one story they are inside a car. Woodlawn is so big that you really need a vehicle to get around. They park behind a big mausoleum where there are a lot of bushes. Yeah, a real one: Jay Gould's huge final resting place. In another story, on another site, they drive up with a big quilt and use the stone platform at the back of Gould's place.

This is it. As you can see, the back of it offers some privacy. The stone portico offers protection from the elements, although it's not raining on that day.

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2007/181/7804567_118330298120.jpg

Since people will ask who Jay Gould was:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7804567/jay-gould

 

[JMJ4Play]

Recently, I was sitting in a funeral chapel, idly watching the funeral director do her job while waiting for the service to start. I was trying to not play with my mobile (cell) phone, because that would be inappropriate, so that left my mind free to wander into more productive things. And then, of course, a story plot popped into my head, possibly involving somebody not unlike said funeral director.

And this meant, of course, that I had to tell myself off for thinking inappropriately while waiting for the funeral to start. So, I was back to square one, except that I now had a new story plot instead of wasting time on my phone...

Just wondering if anybody else has had that issue of suddenly thinking of a story when least appropriate, and managing the associated simultaneous joy and guilt?

PS - For anybody wondering, I didn't know the deceased or her family - I was there for another reason, which might explain why my mind was wandering.

All. The. Time!!!

 

[gunhilltrain]

Whether he, she or they, the spouse could be rather desirable to others and if wealthy, so much the better. Let the games begin.

Wakes can be kind of wild, no?

The old Irish wakes of many decades ago could get pretty wild. Being Irish, there was plenty of drinking. (I'm 1/8 Irish so I can get away with saying that.) The stories I heard were that they might take the deceased out of his coffin and sit him in a chair. "Prop him up and keep the party going."

 

[blowhyoooge]

Just wondering if anybody else has had that issue of suddenly thinking of a story when least appropriate, and managing the associated simultaneous joy and guilt?

yes but only joy, no guilt. you do not know when the muse will land. if you whipped out your laptop and started writing that would be rude. no need to feel bad for having an active imagination!!

 

[gunhilltrain]

My plot bunnies always show up when I'm in the middle of a story and suddenly disappear when it's time to start a new story ...

I just had a plot bunny show up while writing a series chapter. It's a continuation of the scene I was writing, but the location changes. Now I have to decide whether to add it to the chapter or just start a new one.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Well...



Death is hot.

I reminded of Melanie Griffith in Body Double. "You're one of those necrophiliacs! A corpse fucker!" She certainly doesn't mean it as a compliment.

 

[Gamblnluck]

I was going to ask about this, because there are people for whom this would be a very appropriate consideration at their service.

Hey, guess you haven't been to a funeral in Louisiana. Some of the dresses and skirts the women wear are not exactly modest sometimes. (Almost an opportunity to dress up.) And given that those same young (and not so young) women are into hugging each other and many/most of the men around..., Yep, bound to be some inappropriate thoughts.

 

[MrPixel]

Some of the dresses and skirts the women wear are not exactly modest sometimes. (Almost an opportunity to dress up.)

Yep. Especially when the only "black dress" you have in the closet is the "little" one you tease the men with.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Hey, guess you haven't been to a funeral in Louisiana. Some of the dresses and skirts the women wear are not exactly modest sometimes. (Almost an opportunity to dress up.) And given that those same young (and not so young) women are into hugging each other and many/most of the men around..., Yep, bound to be some inappropriate thoughts.

Is this the Cajuns or the African-Americans or just part of the state culture? I've never been anywhere near there. I have heard the New Orleans has a distinctive culture that is different from the rest of the state.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I just had a plot bunny show up while writing a series chapter. It's a continuation of the scene I was writing, but the location changes. Now I have to decide whether to add it to the chapter or just start a new one.

Well, it looks like the first part is about 1,400 words. Since the second part, although it's on a different day, has the same theme, maybe one longer chapter will do it.

P.S.: Words, I mean words, not pages. 1,400 pages would make it the Infinite Jest of plot bunnies.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Is this the Cajuns or the African-Americans or just part of the state culture? I've never been anywhere near there. I have heard the New Orleans has a distinctive culture that is different from the rest of the state.

Funerals are as big a social event as a wedding. just with slightly more crying and no booze (openly anyway) people you haven't seen for years show up. They gather, catch up for a while, then have the funeral.

 

[Erozetta]

Funerals are as big a social event as a wedding. just with slightly more crying and no booze (openly anyway) people you haven't seen for years show up. They gather, catch up for a while, then have the funeral.

Weirdly, funerals usually have better food. Particularly southern funerals.