Boris and Natasha Live Again!

[3113]

I'm sure you've all heard of the Russian Spy ring. This part caught my eye especially...can we all say "Plot Bunny!"

Anna Chapman, the flame-haired beauty accused of spying for the Russian government, was no low-profile operative content with simply hiding in the shadows.

On the contrary, Chapman seem to court the limelight.

When she wasn't allegedly meeting with her Russian handlers or being duped by undercover agents, the 28-year-old divorcee was gallivanting around New York. Chapman has been photographed partying it up at trendy events, and posted risqué pics of herself on her Facebook page.

Story from here.

Here's Natasha boys and girls!

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/8077/slide_8077_107672_large.jpg

'Fess up. You'd tell her all kinds of secrets...wouldn't ya?

 

[sr71plt]

Read Salted Away by Gina Drew (a pen name of one of our own), and you'll be amazed at the parallelism with this--a little late on the plot bunny idea. It's been done.

 

[TE999]

"Qvickly Natasha, ve must use your seductive charmz to eliminate that dratted moose and sqvirrel during the Mooselvania Farkling Contest."

That Slavic charmer would make any man sing like a canary in heat.

 

[3113]

Read Salted Away by Gina Drew (a pen name of one of our own), and you'll be amazed at the parallelism with this--a little late on the plot bunny idea. It's been done.

It's never too late for a good plot bunny! Especially when it involves a Russian Spy like Anya there...

 

[sr71plt]

It's never too late for a good plot bunny! Especially when it involves a Russian Spy like Anya there...

But, as I've said. It's been done. And recently.

 

[3113]

But, as I've said. It's been done. And recently.

A plot bunny is not a story! A plot bunny is merely a plot bunny. Consider the plot bunny of a man falsely accused of murdering his wife--that gets you two very different stories: "Frenzy" and "The Fugitive." Yet no one would say those are the same two stories--or that the one ought not to have been done because the other had "already been done."

As a writer, you should know this. And it makes no difference, either, if it's been done recently. So long as the plot bunny yields a different story, it can be used and used. That is why we throw them out there--so that a dozen people can write a dozen different stories with the same plot bunny.

I say again...it's never too late.

 

[TE999]

A plot bunny is not a story! A plot bunny is merely a plot bunny. Consider the plot bunny of a man falsely accused of murdering his wife--that gets you two very different stories: "Frenzy" and "The Fugitive." Yet no one would say those are the same two stories--or that the one ought not to have been done because the other had "already been done."

As a writer, you should know this. And it makes no difference, either, if it's been done recently. So long as the plot bunny yields a different story, it can be used and used. That is why we throw them out there--so that a dozen people can write a dozen different stories with the same plot bunny.

I say again...it's never too late.

There are only seven or eight basic plots anyway...but they've generated a bunch of books and plays...from the Greeks to the Bard to the present.

 

[sr71plt]

A plot bunny is not a story! A plot bunny is merely a plot bunny. Consider the plot bunny of a man falsely accused of murdering his wife--that gets you two very different stories: "Frenzy" and "The Fugitive." Yet no one would say those are the same two stories--or that the one ought not to have been done because the other had "already been done."

As a writer, you should know this. And it makes no difference, either, if it's been done recently. So long as the plot bunny yields a different story, it can be used and used. That is why we throw them out there--so that a dozen people can write a dozen different stories with the same plot bunny.

I say again...it's never too late.

Fine. Write it up and we'll compare how you did against Gina Drew.

 

[Carnevil9]

I'll take this opportunity to brazenly pimp my own story in this vein, "Femme Fatale," about a sexy but deadly Russian agent........Carney (see sig)