The attack of the plotbunnies

[wiseheart]

Apparently, my muses sold their fickle souls to the dark side. No, seriously. They're evil.

Here I am, wanting nothing more than find some time to finish at least one or two of my never-ending WIPs, and what happens? Do I get the necessary inspiration? No, I don't. Instead, the frigging stories start spawning wildly eclectic plotbunnies, so that I can have even more unfinished WIPs for the next two hundred or so years.

You remember my new Criminal Minds story, the one that I've only posted to my Insane Journal for a test run? I intended to finish that one in, oh, six to eight chapters. I got so far as Chapter 4, with extensive fragments already written for later chapters.

Then the plotbunny went into hibernation. But not before spawning another Criminal Minds crossover bunny. This time with Startgate: Atlantis. Set after the first season of SGA, contemplating the "what if" possibility of Dr. Spencer Reid getting hired for the Atlantis expedition. As he's canonically graduated from CalTech - the very same place where I had Kavanagh study, and later work, in all my Atlantis stories. From that realization on, there was no more way back. I've already worked the whole frigging story out in my head, up to "Critical Mass", in which Reid would put his years as an FBI profiler to good use to clear Kavanagh from suspicion.

Yeah, I'm clearly insane. I know.

And if that wasn't enough, my current reading of Marcus/Neroon fanfic has finally nudged the long-hibernating plotbunny for the Still Not in Kansas sequel. After four and a half frigging years!

How am I going to ever finish anything at this rate?

Comments

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Lol, buried under an avalanche of plot bunnies!
' Get.Off Me! ' ( in a muffled voice )

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Soemthing like that, yeah. And it happens to me all the time! Can you imagine it? Over a hundred stories in a dozen different fandoms posted to FF.Net (not to mention those which aren't posted there for various reasons), and at least a third of them are WIPs. Or more. And instead of being able to finish them, I get more urgent ideas all the time.

Better than no ideas at all, granted, but at this rate, I'll need centuries to finish my stuff.

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Gosh no, I can't imagine it, I have to concentrate on one story, and maybe weave ideas into that if any come up. I would start gibbering with so many!

Centuries- yes, you need to be an Elf.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Or a vampire - considering how much I prefer to write during the night.

Not that I'd have chosen to work the way I do. It's just so that my mind is like that parish house I saw once in the Netherlands. It had been the home of a minister with 16 children once, and the more kids they got, the more rooms had been built to the house. Plus, the doors of the rooms and the doors of the wardrobes looked exactly the same, so you could never know whether you'd end up in a chamber or in a cupboard when you opened them. *g*

I swear, the same happens to my mind every time. I want to look up some nice idea to story A in the cupboard, open the door, and BAMMM! I end up in a previously unknown room inhabited by the strangest creatures. *sighs* *shakes head*

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

I swear, the same happens to my mind every time. I want to look up some nice idea to story A in the cupboard, open the door, and BAMMM! I end up in a previously unknown room inhabited by the strangest creatures. *sighs* *shakes head*

Lol, actually I envy you :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Don't. It's as much a curse as it is a blessing sometimes. :s

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

No, I do. I used to be a lot like that when I was younger, and then after anti depressants and withdrawal from them - or maybe just getting older, the plot bunnies began to vanish. I have files and files of ( longhand ) unfinished stories from that time. Makes me a bit sad to look at them and realize my mind was so much more imaginative.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be happy to discuss plot ideas with you. That's what I'm missing most since most of my friends have fallen out of the fandom. Discussions always helped me with stories I was stuck.

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Thank-you. I am not stuck now, in fact I have a lot of threads to tie together, but now, I am not able to work on more than one story at a time. Some people can and I really do envy them. I used to, but now I concentrate on one story only.

Thank-you for the offer. I did used to brainstorm with a couple of people a few years back, and I think it did help, so I may take you up on that. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Any time. I've got my fair share of unfinished Silmfics, too, perhaps my hibernating Tokien bunnies begin to thaw as well.

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

I've got my fair share of unfinished Silmfics, too, perhaps my hibernating Tokien bunnies begin to thaw as well.

I hope so! Any more plot bunnies however, and you may need an earth mover :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What I'd need is an early retirement, with enough cash to live comfortably and have all the time to write. *g*

Alas, it's not likely to happen...

[lethe-lloyd.livejournal.com]

What I'd need is an early retirement, with enough cash to live comfortably and have all the time to write. *g*

That is also a good option. I wish all my fave authors had a massive windfall so they could all do that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Amen to that.

[jen-rock.livejournal.com]

Ah, those insidious plotbunnies. That Criminal Minds/Atlantis crossover sounds awesome.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, it will be a Kavanagh-friendly one. :)

[artemis10002000]

Didn't you know, plot bunnies are evil. They like to keep you distracted with way too many WiPs so you won't thwart their plots to take over the world :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, they can take over the world as far as I'm concerned. I'm not their adversary when it comes to world domination. All I want is inspiration and time to write.

Hilarious icon, by the way. But where is my Rhade?

I watched the Earth: Final Conflict episode with Steve Bacic in it today on Tele 5. He was a lot younger back then, and either pumped full with steroids or lived in a fitness studio, but boy, did he look hot! And naked to the waist, too. Mmmm... I'm such a dirty old lady sometimes.

[artemis10002000]

Oh, E:FC is back on Tele 5? I didn't know that *scratches head* For that matter, I don't even know whether I still get Tele 5, I lost lots of programs when the satellite dish was moved. But I must check.

*giggles* The icon is something I searched for for a Livejournal RP. Instead of a picture, I got a quote that fit the character. I don't play that RP anymore, but the icon still amuses me to no end. But here's Rhade for you :)

For inspiration and time to write, I'd also turn a blind eye to the plot bunnies plot for world domination.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

World domination is overrated. Even though perhaps neither Tyr, nor Rhade would agree. But they are men. Nietzschean men, at that.

Tele 5 is, like, the coolest canal. Every workday they rerun the Stargate SG-1 episode from the previous day at 17.00, then run an EFC episode at 18.00, then the next Stargate ep at 19.00. What else could we want for afternoon programme?

Well, yeah, I'd have lots of further suggestions, but it's the only canal with regular sci-fi, so I'm not complaining.