Plot Bunnies
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a plot bunny must be . . .
Wait, no. Not time to side-quote Jane Austen. (If you have not read the opening line to Pride and Prejudice , go do that right now and come back to see me.)
Every writer will approach the craft of storytelling in their own way. The first year I was writing, I finished six full-length novels just to learn how to write. (None of them were very good that year.) I also started about ten or twelve more stories that never went beyond a page or twenty.
Currently, I have three books in progress, to one degree or another, with another plot bunny in gestation. This does not mean these books all get a certain amount of my time, parsed out carefully to each one. Gentle nurturing is not currently happening for these stories. Instead, it's kind of a haphazard venture into whichever story is forefront in my mind at the time I sit down during "writing time".
Three of them are Regency Romances. One is Contemporary. The three are a series, centering around a family. The one takes me back to Nashville. Again. Which makes me happy.
Yeah, I have succumbed to the need to schedule myself. At least when my younger son is in school! I have word count goals and a start time and I insert domestic duties in between paragraphs.
Persistent as the bunnies are, they are not as demanding as a houseful of guys! ;-)
The plot bunny that hasn't even earned a pretend cover is something I've never quite tried, before. Still I talk it out to myself during my morning, pre-dawn walks. If it is still there in a week or so, I might actually do more than talk to myself about it.
What could conceivably be worse? Another one might be lurking, just there under the hedge.
[Bunny images from Pixabay]
I will tell you, though, that when I have progressed far enough along with any of the stories, I will share their pretend covers here on my blog. As yet, I haven't even printed up any to put in a binder!
I might have to go get a few . . . the bunnies have been busy .
Wait, no. Not time to side-quote Jane Austen. (If you have not read the opening line to Pride and Prejudice , go do that right now and come back to see me.)
Every writer will approach the craft of storytelling in their own way. The first year I was writing, I finished six full-length novels just to learn how to write. (None of them were very good that year.) I also started about ten or twelve more stories that never went beyond a page or twenty.
Currently, I have three books in progress, to one degree or another, with another plot bunny in gestation. This does not mean these books all get a certain amount of my time, parsed out carefully to each one. Gentle nurturing is not currently happening for these stories. Instead, it's kind of a haphazard venture into whichever story is forefront in my mind at the time I sit down during "writing time".
Three of them are Regency Romances. One is Contemporary. The three are a series, centering around a family. The one takes me back to Nashville. Again. Which makes me happy.
Yeah, I have succumbed to the need to schedule myself. At least when my younger son is in school! I have word count goals and a start time and I insert domestic duties in between paragraphs.
Persistent as the bunnies are, they are not as demanding as a houseful of guys! ;-)
The plot bunny that hasn't even earned a pretend cover is something I've never quite tried, before. Still I talk it out to myself during my morning, pre-dawn walks. If it is still there in a week or so, I might actually do more than talk to myself about it.
What could conceivably be worse? Another one might be lurking, just there under the hedge.
[Bunny images from Pixabay]
I will tell you, though, that when I have progressed far enough along with any of the stories, I will share their pretend covers here on my blog. As yet, I haven't even printed up any to put in a binder!
I might have to go get a few . . . the bunnies have been busy .
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