It’s been noted before, but showers are a hotbed of inspiration. So there I was, showering peacefully on the morning of the 30th of November, getting ready for the final writing day of this NaNo. The it hit me: new plot idea. Fortunately it’s an entirely separate plot – albeit it using some of the same characters I’m writing about now – so I won’t have to try to deal with it today, but still.
Still it’s typical. I’m barely even done with one plot and suddenly a new one pops up, begging to be written. Sometimes I think I must have an hyperactive plotbunny farm hidden somewhere. I’m still planning on going back to editing Gordian Knot, once NaNo is finished. But even so the universe I’m now working in looks like it’s trying to grow into one gigantic saga, which could potentially be a lot of fun.
Funnily enough, today I was reading again in the first volume of the B5 script books, just the part where JMS describes how everything fell into place for him while being in the shower. I hope you consider his thoughts on electrocution when it happens to you and you race to your computer to write your thoughts down
Oh I don’t generally write my plot ideas down. Certainly not straight away. The great maker only know how fast the bunnies would start breeding if I gave the shape and form by putting them into words on my harddrive. I’d be overrun by the bunnies streaming out of my computer if I did that.
Sorry, but I couldn’t help visualize the character Anja from the series “Buffy” right now. She was deadly scared of Bunnies and I imagined you – like her – standing on top of your desk to escape the fluffy animals
Like I said, sorry – I am just too much of a geek this way.
Hey, no problem. We all have our little geek-out points after all. And if my plotbunnies started breeding at that rate I just might have to stand on my desk to avoid plot-confusion