Progress of a plot bunny
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beccaelizabethHad a bunny. The kind of bunny that grabs a bunch of other random bunnies and gives them a theme, a common thread, a proper plot shaped monster and a story outline. Kind of like those robots made of other robots, only with bunny.
Look at new mega bunny zilla and think it is Good.
Do the Evil Laugh of Doing Evil Things to Characters.
Go to write it up.
Look stuff up.
Do evil cackle of funny things to do with headless chickens.
... no, really, this was a crucial stage in the writing process...
... now I has bunnyzilla and a headless chicken as my muses...
Write it up as a little diagram to figure out if everyone has something to do. Realise I left out Gwen. Consider keeping on leaving out Gwen. Write short list of Gwen's Issues Relevant To This Bunny. Realise that actually Gwen goes in the story too. Make notes about how to tweak it so she's there to make unhelpful comments and try to bond and be emotional about stuff.
Realise how she'd react to Really Evil Things Done To Characters and do the Evil Laugh again.
Sit down to write the intro. Realise it doesn't really have a snappy beginning place yet. Wind it forwards, fail to find anything that doesn't need explaining, wind it back, find something obscure but interesting.
Sit down and accidentally write a poem.
It's not a very good poem.
It doesn't rhyme and the rhythm keeps changing on purpose.
But it has ten syllables per line except for the four lines that have three or one, and it makes a pattern of two stanzas, and it says the stuff I sat down to write a few lines about.
Do a word count. Realise I have not only written a poem but a drabble. 100 words precisely.
On accident.
... my writing related accidents are kind of useful ...
Wonder if I'm remembering the relevant scene right.
... rewatch a bit of Exit Wounds.
Make unhappy puppy noises and blink and sniff a lot.
And I didn't even have the sound on!
Tosh! Owen!
... realise bunny depends on doing evil things to Tosh and Owen.
Who had that ending. Which was a really rather spectacular ending that makes me make unhappy noises out of context.
... realise that I don't want to do evil things to Tosh and Owen.
... bunnyzilla would fall apart if I didn't though.
... story grinds to a halt ...
(but... but... atomic zombies! ghost in the machine! Torchwood morgue and the revolvingdoor floor! Philosophical conversations over half cyberized ex girlfriends! Torchwood as religion! Owen's morgue drawer has pizza in and not Owen, which is probably highly symbolic. Mike-not-Mickey the headless chicken! And an actual adventure plot to tie it all together!)
(Does that not sound like a plot bunny of stompy doom? And isn't doing bad things to characters what being a writer is for? Even if they are dead already?)
(... but it still makes me make unhappy noise and go eat chocolate ...)
Look at new mega bunny zilla and think it is Good.
Do the Evil Laugh of Doing Evil Things to Characters.
Go to write it up.
Look stuff up.
Do evil cackle of funny things to do with headless chickens.
... no, really, this was a crucial stage in the writing process...
... now I has bunnyzilla and a headless chicken as my muses...
Write it up as a little diagram to figure out if everyone has something to do. Realise I left out Gwen. Consider keeping on leaving out Gwen. Write short list of Gwen's Issues Relevant To This Bunny. Realise that actually Gwen goes in the story too. Make notes about how to tweak it so she's there to make unhelpful comments and try to bond and be emotional about stuff.
Realise how she'd react to Really Evil Things Done To Characters and do the Evil Laugh again.
Sit down to write the intro. Realise it doesn't really have a snappy beginning place yet. Wind it forwards, fail to find anything that doesn't need explaining, wind it back, find something obscure but interesting.
Sit down and accidentally write a poem.
It's not a very good poem.
It doesn't rhyme and the rhythm keeps changing on purpose.
But it has ten syllables per line except for the four lines that have three or one, and it makes a pattern of two stanzas, and it says the stuff I sat down to write a few lines about.
Do a word count. Realise I have not only written a poem but a drabble. 100 words precisely.
On accident.
... my writing related accidents are kind of useful ...
Wonder if I'm remembering the relevant scene right.
... rewatch a bit of Exit Wounds.
Make unhappy puppy noises and blink and sniff a lot.
And I didn't even have the sound on!
Tosh! Owen!
... realise bunny depends on doing evil things to Tosh and Owen.
Who had that ending. Which was a really rather spectacular ending that makes me make unhappy noises out of context.
... realise that I don't want to do evil things to Tosh and Owen.
... bunnyzilla would fall apart if I didn't though.
... story grinds to a halt ...
(but... but... atomic zombies! ghost in the machine! Torchwood morgue and the revolving
(Does that not sound like a plot bunny of stompy doom? And isn't doing bad things to characters what being a writer is for? Even if they are dead already?)
(... but it still makes me make unhappy noise and go eat chocolate ...)