How do you feed your plotbunnies?

[GrantBricksly]

I rarely work on more than one piece at the same time... I tried once... But then when I went back for editing I found characters and locations from story a, in story b, and vice versa. My plot bunnies had migrated and cross propagated.
It was a mess.

That being said I do often have plot bunnies come to visit. So I'll write them down and tuck them away in my bunny farm. And when I'm ready for a new project, I'll go looking for one that's ready for fattening.
If I get stuck on a story, my plot bunny is sick...so I'll bring it to my farm for a while to heal and get better.

 

[iwatchus]

Right now, as I regularly fight myself to get productive on stories, I bounce between stories, to see if I can get one to catch me. Or I spend too much time in AH.

When I swap to a new story, I re-readwhat I have already read of it, making some edits. This seems to clear my head enough to not intermingle. Or I can talk about one of the stories I am trying to write as a plot point in another, like I just did in the one that is debuting tomorrow.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

How do you feed your plotbunnies?

I feed them through the wood chipper ... my keyboard.

Problem is the scattered bunny bits regenerate into new and more aggressive bunnies that take me in directions I've never gone.

 

[TheRedLantern]

I thought I was the kind of person that didn't really have the problem of excess plot bunnies. Then I was copying some text from my wiki and, while doing so, I found a section with 6 furry critters, including one called "At The Red Lantern" which had 4 unrelated drafts of totally different stories by different POV characters told at different times (zero of which have anything to do with the story of the same name I published here). They're all like that, and most have multiple drafts that may or may not be versions of the same idea.

Some are outlines, some are drafts (one of them is 24K words long), and some are just random scenes that I wrote and intended to post to Reddit but never got around to it.