What's a plot bunny?

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I know I am going to look like an idiot asking this, but what is a plot bunny?
 
A story idea that an author either doesn't have time or inclination to develop fully, so it is given away. Ideas sometimes tend to "breed like rabbits," thus, plot bunny.
 
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I know I am going to look like an idiot asking this, but what is a plot bunny?

No, you don't look like an idiot. I asked the same thing a while ago. :eek: I define it as an idea for a story that arises from something you read somewhere, such as on this forum, or or from a picture or a videotape or almost anywhere. :) That would include something that is suggested to you by some other author or a reader or anybody.
 
It's quite amazing. The rabbids howl.

And one of the games we have uses a "butt board" in which the kids sit and navigate with their butts. (it's on the Wii fit board).

So bizarre, truly. But they love it.

Now that sounds like huge fun. Kids today have the coolest games. To think we had to settle for board games and running around the neighborhood like demented ostriches. :D
 
No, you don't look like an idiot. I asked the same thing a while ago. :eek: I define it as an idea for a story that arises from something you read somewhere, such as on this forum, or or from a picture or a videotape or almost anywhere. :) That would include something that is suggested to you by some other author or a reader or anybody.

When you first "see" them they look so small and cute so you're enticed to pick them up and play with them.

You put them on the shelf and play with them for a while and then, you offer them up because your hard drive gets filled with Plot Bunny Poop.:(
 
A story idea that an author either doesn't have time or inclination to develop fully, so it is given away. Ideas sometimes tend to "breed like rabbits," thus, plot bunny.

No, you don't look like an idiot. I asked the same thing a while ago. :eek: I define it as an idea for a story that arises from something you read somewhere, such as on this forum, or or from a picture or a videotape or almost anywhere. :) That would include something that is suggested to you by some other author or a reader or anybody.

Thanks for that guys. Much appreciated. :) :rose: :kiss:
 
I thought plot bunnies were rabbits the zoo sells to children to feed the snakes.
 
I hate the term. My ideas are nothing like bunnies. They're more like moths or gnats, frustrating, elusive, mildly disgusting. Sometimes they're like wrestling with something in a closet full of fur coats. Other times they're like wandering through the desert like Man Versus Wild eating loathesome bugs and drinking urine.

But then when they emerge, they're like shining unicorns, or dragons dozing atop piles of treasure, or maybe some fabulous tapeworm 50 feet long, and you look at the thing in the jar and say, "Wow! You mean I was carrying that around inside ME?"
 
Oh mine are like bunnies . . . dust bunnies! They hide under the bed and grow into something disgusting but no one notices until it's too late. ;) I've got one working around for a non-con/reluctant about a excessively 'evolved' guy and his depraved girlfriend and her buds.
 
Wow, was I ever wrong. I always thought plot bunnies were the hot babes I created in my stories. The things you learn about.

In seriousness, I have a ton of bunnies piling up and I think they're breeding. One turns into two and it doesn't seem to stop multiplying. I'm going to have to make a stew and put a lot of bunnies in to control their numbers.
 
I have a plot tapeworm in my gut, a plot leech on my thigh, a plot veruka in the ball of my foot, and some plot mistetoe hanging from my nose.

I'm barely alive with all these parasitic plots sucking my creative juices from me
 
My plot bunnies start with a basic idea for a story.

Then I think "What if?" and the basic idea develops variations. Those variations lead to other ideas and now my original theme has become dozens of possible stories.

Or...

I think of a character or group of characters. I start to write about them. They develop. They need at least one story based around each character, and another about the interaction between that character and one or more other characters. The set of stories ends up like completing a football pool coupon "Perm any eight from fourteen" and before I know what has happened I have tens, scores, or even hundreds of story ideas.

Plot bunnies breed. They might not breed GOOD stories, but once started they can breed too many stories for you to write.

Og
 
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