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help..someone...please....
Claire:
Attack of the Plot Bunnies.
All I'm sayin. ;D
Gnome:
You and me have alot in common my friend.
Sometimes i can just be sitting there doing nothing and i find myself creating 10 fantasy worlds at the same time. Its enough to make me wanna go camatose when i try and write. So heres what i do, even tho i doubt it will work for you. I snap my fingers, alot. Hear me out on this. Ever since i was a kid i could snap every finger on my right hand, so i make a little beat with my fingers, interpose another beat in my head and lo and behold im creating musiQ....atleast in my head. It probably just sounds like random finger snapping to anyone else but to me its musiQ. Annoys the hell out of friends, aquaintances, and random people on the street. But helps me focus.
It takes me forever to write, because i gotta take breaks to re order my thoughts, but hey its beats a coma..right? ;D
The Gnome
PrimaKrieger:
I have this problem too, it's really annoying.
I have plot bunny attacks all the time, it happens a lot when I'm reading books or fanfics, sometimes it happens when I'm watching TV or writing a story. I really don't have any advice to offer but to say stick with one thing. Write down the plot bunnies as they come to you and then stick with the one that you're working on. That's what I'm doing, I'm trying to stick with one thing until I'm done with it. . . right now it's an SW fanfic and after I'm done with it I'm gonna get back to my writing my fantasy novel. . . if I can just stay disciplined and write it.
Krieger.
eviladam:
I read that wrong. I thought you said you had to plot out bunny attacks. lmao
I've been bitten by that skittles singing plot whore of a rabit myself tonight. I just had an idea for another sci fi novel, that I'm forcing myself not to work on. Presentlly I'm trying to plot two different urban fantasy novels with ideas for SOOOOO many more.
CynDe:
I force myself to finish at least a preliminary outline of each story as it falls into my head. With outlines, I can build several stories at once, and switch when a story becomes uncooperative.
Did that make sense? Basically, I try to pin the stories on paper as soon as they come, rather than let them rattle around in my brain, clamoring for attention.
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