How do you feed your plotbunnies?

[redgarters]

Taking a break from trying to finish a story thats been fighting me for months, I wandered the stacks and found some stories that gave me a plot idea for a train romp story. That means I now have three plotbunnies running around causing havoc in my brain. So I just wondered, how many plotbunnies do you have jumping around at any given time and how do you keep them alive as you're writing something else or in a block phase? And how many end up as stories at the end of the day?

 

[StillStunned]

 

[NuclearFairy]

If they stick around long enough for me to get around to writing them down then they're keepers that I might finish someday. If they die away before that then they probably weren't worth my time anyways. In other words, I don't try and keep them alive, they live or die on their own merit.

Right now though I have three long story plot bunnies bouncing around my head and another seven short story plot bunnies, half of which are offspring to two of the long stories, one of which is also an offspring of a long story. Hmm, not sure that makes sense. I deal with them though by writing about whichever is bouncing the hardest at the moment.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I've got three stories I've worked on, added words to, in the past week. Lots of other ideas, about 20. Sometimes I write a couple of paragraphs when I have an idea, just to remind future me how I wanted the story to go.

-Annie

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I murder them, skin them, freeze them, and bring them out when I need to write. Some are fresh kills. My latest upload was a morning wood I had two days ago.

 

[WCSGarland]

heh, zombie plot bunnies... the killed that rise again... they thrive on brains...

 

[redgarters]

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Oh wow And I was worried about having three things to dvelop

 

[StillStunned]

Oh wow And I was worried about having three things to dvelop

The good news is that I've finished one of them and submitted it. So only 84 left.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I've posted this here before, but...

https://literotica.com/p/ghost-writers-in-the-sky

 

[onehitwanda]

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NERD.

 

[StillStunned]

NERD.

It's been a long time since anyone but my wife called me that.

 

[Fatdog25]

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At least I'm not the only one who's like this.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Some with the love and tenderness a mother does a newborn. Others, The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Most fall somewhere in between.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Usually just two plot bunnies are frolicking in my brain at a time. Usually a long term project and a shorter stand-alone. Everything else is written down in the 'contemplate later' file, before it gets too hungry.

 

[dirk2024]

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Wow. I thought I was working on a lot of stories.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Li'l basturds can get aggressive.

Damn Bunny jumped on my face and dug its claws in. 1,700 words became 3,500.


Submitted in EC.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And whatever you do, NEVER feed them after midnight.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

And whatever you do, NEVER feed them after midnight.

Mine mostly only have time for feeding after midnight.

Each gets its own sentence or para in my Drafts doc, and if it gets beyond a long paragraph, the bunny gets herded into its own document (not showing you the list, as all my to-do lists and life admin and a bit of work are also on my phone).

Every now and then one sprouts legs and gets bouncing, as it were.

 

[dirk2024]

I often have idea's pop into my head at night when I'm away from my computer and often, I don't recall them when I wake up. So I've started texting them to my email address. Problem is I wake up this morning to three emails/texts...each with multiple ideas/sentences. Now I have to figure out not only where they go in the story I am working on, but which chapter.

 

[NotWise]

I usually let my plot bunnies run free. If they get lost, then I'll find another.

 

[VallesMarineris]

I don't have just plot bunnies, I have plot northern pygmy mice (the world's smallest rodents) and plot capybaras (world's largest). I'm totally cool with that. As Mao once said, "Let a thousand flowers bloom."

Of course, then he had a major purge. I'm not so cruel. At least not yet.

(Yes, pedants, I know that rabbits are no longer considered rodents. But they're in the same clade. Works for me.)

 

[Comshaw]

Why is it people call them "plot bunnies"? Bunnies are cute little things that are soft and cuddly. The ones that haunt me aren't cute or cuddly. Instead I'd call them plot brats because they screech and scream and pull at my pant legs, demanding attention. "I want to be finished!" They scream at me.

I'm not a very good plot brat parent, 'cause I tell 'em to STFU and leave me alone. It doesn't work of course and I eventually give in and finish that particular story. That doesn't matter though because the bunny analogy does some what work for my mob of ankle biting plot brats 'cause as soon as I finish one, I birth another. It never ends!

Comshaw

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Why is it people call them "plot bunnies"? Bunnies are cute little things that are soft and cuddly. The ones that haunt me aren't cute or cuddly. Instead I'd call them plot brats because they screech and scream and pull at my pant legs, demanding attention. "I want to be finished!" They scream at me.

See post 16. They keep me up at night.

 

[SkyBubble]

Plotbunnies?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

My plot bunnies have a nice one-file hutch where they can keep each other company. Many of them stay there, but some graduate to become stories, in a different file folder.