I Need a Bigger Hutch

21 July 2010 | Filed Under Tales from the Author's Desk 


Fruits Basket’s Momiji in Rabbit form

Plot bunnies are sweet, but they are the epitome of distraction. They’re way too tempting for their own good, trying to lure a writer off her current path.

When I can, I jot the bunny down in a notebook, on my Mac stickies, heck, even a scrap of paper will do (though I usually lose those).

Sometimes I check on my bunnies a little later and realize some of them weren’t as great as I thought they were. Those get set free.

But I hate the bunnies that get away. Maybe I got an idea while dreaming but forgot it by the time I woke up. Or, more likely, got it while I was driving and couldn’t write it down without risking a crash.

How do you deal with plot bunnies?

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One Response to “I Need a Bigger Hutch”

  1. Jun on July 22nd, 2010 7:31 am

    You bring your recorder and record how the bunny looks like whenever it runs into you!

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