note to evil plot-bunny
Aug. 12th, 2008 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseDear Rabid Plot-Bunny:
I did not ask for you to show up, but I was very nice about you, to begin with. I wrote the beginning of you, and hoped that you'd be content with that. But you're not, are you? No. You want me to slog my way through your whole increasingly-complicated plot, complete with seven OCs (seven! down from nine - at least you were kind enough to give me that!), and actually write and post you, ending with... what? You still haven't given me an ending that works. I am not going to set myself up with another huge plotty-fic with no ending!
So here's the deal: I'll write you, Damned Bunny, if you will give me an ending that works. I don't mean an ending that sort-of works. I mean one that really ties up all the loose ends and actually means something, okay? An ending that has... thematic significance, and character development, and is not just pasted on because I'm desperate to get this thing out of my head.
Deal?
It darned well better be. Because this thing isn't going to leave me alone until I've actually written it, I don't think.
And there will be no more research, damn it. ...Unless it's the fun kind. *Headdesk* This would have been so much easier if I'd been satisfied with the intended fairy-tale style of writing. The great thing about proper fairy tales? They're supposed to be a bit weird and trite and to have pat, canned sorts of endings.
And dropping dialog in my lap when I'm supposed to be working is cheating, Bunny. That's just not fair.
I did not ask for you to show up, but I was very nice about you, to begin with. I wrote the beginning of you, and hoped that you'd be content with that. But you're not, are you? No. You want me to slog my way through your whole increasingly-complicated plot, complete with seven OCs (seven! down from nine - at least you were kind enough to give me that!), and actually write and post you, ending with... what? You still haven't given me an ending that works. I am not going to set myself up with another huge plotty-fic with no ending!
So here's the deal: I'll write you, Damned Bunny, if you will give me an ending that works. I don't mean an ending that sort-of works. I mean one that really ties up all the loose ends and actually means something, okay? An ending that has... thematic significance, and character development, and is not just pasted on because I'm desperate to get this thing out of my head.
Deal?
It darned well better be. Because this thing isn't going to leave me alone until I've actually written it, I don't think.
And there will be no more research, damn it. ...Unless it's the fun kind. *Headdesk* This would have been so much easier if I'd been satisfied with the intended fairy-tale style of writing. The great thing about proper fairy tales? They're supposed to be a bit weird and trite and to have pat, canned sorts of endings.
And dropping dialog in my lap when I'm supposed to be working is cheating, Bunny. That's just not fair.
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Date: 2008-08-13 03:42 am (UTC)Link, should you prefer it to digging around journals/comm... (http://rivendellrose.livejournal.com/598446.html)
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Date: 2008-08-13 04:33 am (UTC)*sneaks the plot bunnies some nice carrots*