When Plotbunnies Attack!

[Rabble]

:help: :runaway: :faint:

Sigh... As if I don't already have stories to write! Anyone got any good advice on how to write a drabble-ish story?

:D

[Shalyn]

A who?

[Kath]

Drabble.

Meant to be a complete story fragment told in 100 words, no more, no less.


I'd recommend trying to be concise...

[Shalyn]

Drabble.

Meant to be a complete story fragment told in 100 words, no more, no less.


I'd recommend trying to be concise...

Thanks.

Never heard of it, and from the brief description, probably don't want to.

Rabble - I agree with Kath. Just tell the story.

[Lali]

A hundred words is actually a surpising amount.

And you can always edit down afterwards if you go over. ^_^

[Bardmaiden]

When I saw the title I thought of our cuddly plotbunnies we bought at Dragon*Con so I attach a pic of the bunnies and When plotbunnies attack!

[Rabble]

:eek:

Plotbunnies!

Oh my god! They're here already! Run for your lives! Run for the hills!

:runaway:

[Lali]

*claps hands, laughing*

That's ace, Bardmaiden! :laugh:

[Lady Legira]

*bows*

Thank you, I am available for christmas parties and birthdays. :laugh:

I could hardly pose for laughing in the pic. :D Plotbunnies do have a habit of attacking when you least expect it, I never have any paper to hand when that happens and I can never remember all the really good ideas I have later.

[Bane]

Me and one of my friends did something like this when we were seniors in HS. Only... it was different. :erm: :D

She would ask a stupid question (i.e., What if penguins took over the world?) and I would answer it. The only rules were -
*it had to be no more than one page long. It had to be ONE page long. If I had to get on the computer and tweak it for an hour until it filled that one page, I did. There were several that were center aligned with about 3 words per line and written at 20 pt font.
*the answer to the question had to be just as silly/stupid as the question itself.
*it had to be amusing.

It's actually pretty fun doing it. If I could find them, I'd post some of them.

[Vyon]

? plotbunnies? Please explain.

[Kath]

? plotbunnies? Please explain.

As an example... I started this thread (http://www.annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10193) earlier this year, in which The Harper posted this (http://www.annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/showpost.php?p=469997&postcount=36) comment.

That was the plotbunny that resulted in this story... (http://www.annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10479)

[Vyon]

? plotbunny? - a story idea?

I read both of those threads at the time. There were quite a few writing challenges there. My own story was about an ordinary cot-holder and his dependents who were made holdless by one of Fax's raids. I'm just having trouble sticking where they are to where I want to get them to. I guess I dropped Edger off a cliff one too many times!

[Kath]

? plotbunny? - a story idea?


More specifically, one that bites and won't let go.

I've always thought that plot-terrier or plot-rottweiler would be more apt. Although my sister did once have a couple of rabbits with rather evil temperaments, so maybe it's not too far from the truth after all.

[Rabble]

More specifically, one that bites and won't let go.

I've always thought that plot-terrier or plot-rottweiler would be more apt. Although my sister did once have a couple of rabbits with rather evil temperaments, so maybe it's not too far from the truth after all.

I had a plotbunbun once... :ouch:

[Shalyn]

More specifically, one that bites and won't let go.

I've always thought that plot-terrier or plot-rottweiler would be more apt. Although my sister did once have a couple of rabbits with rather evil temperaments, so maybe it's not too far from the truth after all.

PlotRott?

Maybe the 'bunny' part comes from dustbunnies - those things you can never get rid of. Or the fact that when a plotbunny hits you, it keeps breeding more and more ideas until your head is overrun with them and you just want that damn rabbit to take some birth control once in a while because those little bunnies are running rampant in your brain and the only way to MAKE IT STOP!!11!!! is to write it.

And I'm sorry, but all the terriers and rotties I've been seeing this week are little sweeties that wouldn't bite you unless you had a pocket full of treats! And that, only to get at said treats!

[Vyon]

OK, got it. I think the breeding thing is apt, When one of those story ideas hits, you do find yourself chasing it in a hundred different directions. Some of them need shooting to keep the story on track.

And I rescued Edger, the plotbunny is getting tied up with swimming cows.

[Lady Faizah]

Plot bunnies inspired me to issue the following Dare on the NaNo forums, back in October:

Have a character muse on the naming of 'plot bunnies'
Bonus if said character would like to neuter their own plot bunnies, because there are too many.
Double bonus if they end up writing a story that is such a mish-mash of genres that it doesn't fit under any.
Triple bonus if that story actually makes sense!

I wonder if anybody actually took it up. :erm:

But, I think plotbunnies are so named because of their rapid breeding. It's usually too many ideas that make me freeze up, not too few. :erm:

[Annadel]

More specifically, one that bites and won't let go.

I've always thought that plot-terrier or plot-rottweiler would be more apt. Although my sister did once have a couple of rabbits with rather evil temperaments, so maybe it's not too far from the truth after all.

Don't forget about Bors and The Killer Bunny (Monty Python Quest for the Holy Grail). That thing was viscious.