So, the Procrastination Station on the NaNo home page has a topic about Plot Bunnies.
Which led to a number of NaNo totems varring from Plot Cockroaches to Plot Tribbles and everything in between. So what I want to know is what you Plot Critter is and why?
ie. Mine is a Zombified Plot Platypus. Everyone that knows me would assume it's because I'm building a Platypus army and am paranoid about the impending Zombpocalypse. But that's not why.
Zombies are:
hard to kill
wont stop coming
you inevitably run out of amo and become one of them
and it takes a well placed head shot to kill them.
Platypi (multiple of Platypuses) are:
twisty, trixie critters you shouldn't trust
There's no way they could have evolved without a dieties influence
they have poison filled claws they wont hesitate to sink into you
they're adorable beyond all reason
And this NaNo with the ideas that are flying at me, it's going to take a well placed head shot to stop me. And trust me, once I start writing, I'm twisty and trixie! Mwahahahahahahahaaaaaa!
...how about you?
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"Taking over the world for fun and profit utilizing plenty of purple platypi and pissed-off pompus pink penguins posing as plastic politicians promising perfection placed on platnium platters."
...say that two times fast, I double dog dare you! (five ti
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Oct 18, 2009 - 17 15
I have a plot kitten. Her name is Hoshiko.
Why:
Kittens just keep going and going then decide to nap.
They sink their claws into you when you least expect it.
And her name is Japanese because for some odd reason, all my characters are at least part Japanese.
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Oct 19, 2009 - 01 59
:: lol ::
With just what I've read and get from the few threads in this section, gives me hope this year... possibly a chance where I don't have to reign in myself and my odd sense of humor and personality.
I've never really jived with the entire Plot Bunnies as they've always been called in this other writing community I was in and then here in past years. The way my mind and imagination goes it's .... uhm, sort of messy, stringy and NC-17 factor that has me at a loss for what sort of critter it would be. Unfortunately, it's always the ani-plot critter I have problems with and no not the spouse but the Anti-Plot-Critter named Wroo, that just demands my attention at all cost and goes to affinity and beyond to get it.
The only thing that comes to me regarding Plot Critters would something similiar to a spider with a super-spinner set on random spin. Uhm-m-m-m-m, a gignatic spider with a cold with a super-random spinner weaver? Ideals come to me from any little thing that are completely random and usually have nothing to do with the one ideal to another, but entirely too much sparatic random unexplained chaotic ramped scenes/lines/situation I've enjoyed or just come to mind and won't let go.
:: crosses frozens toes with hope ::
----------The Reagan Sagas
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Oct 19, 2009 - 09 11
I definitely have plot bunnies -- of the Rabbit kind. :)
They refer to themselves as GLENN (the Giant Lop Ears of North Nagook).
There are many days/nights when GLENN will not let me rest until I make the required change to the story for them. They've even interrupted one tale with demands for me to start and finish another before I'm allowed to return. I write a lot of FanFiction so readers occasionally send virtual carrots to GLENN. :)
- Nika
----------Nika Dixon
Riveting Red Hot Romantic Suspense
Feed Your Romance Addiction
http://www.nikadixon.com
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09 38
JustTansy, I like the idea of an anit-plot critter, it gives me hope that I'm not the only twisted person here (Demagie and CrimsonKurse excluded of course)
Nice to see everyone has their little plot (or unplot) critters with creative species and names to match.
that's awesome!
----------"Taking over the world for fun and profit utilizing plenty of purple platypi and pissed-off pompus pink penguins posing as plastic politicians promising perfection placed on platnium platters."
...say that two times fast, I double dog dare you! (five ti
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Oct 23, 2009 - 21 31
*lmao* Hun, I make Twistlers seem like a straight line :)
Ya know, if my memory and concious was healthier I'd be able to follow through with the rapid plot ideals. Though I am slightly tempted to just sit down and write every completely random ideal down and self-publish and enjoy the amusing laughter of other peoples take on it.
----------The Reagan Sagas
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Oct 31, 2009 - 15 59
I know what mine is!!! I've read this post several times now, hoping I could put something in, and now I can. My plot creature would be a rather large snake. It's twisty, most people are afraid of it, it can sometimes be cold blooded and it stretches easily. He still doesn't have a name yet, but most things eventually name themselves!
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Oct 31, 2009 - 20 22
My plot creature is, at the moment, an insect of some type. It's kind of burrowed itself into my mind and is telling me how the story should play out. It first got in there about two years ago, and now it won't stop.
It also tells me to burn things. Is that bad?
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Nov 1, 2009 - 11 51
Simon, heh, it tells you to burn things too?
----------There'll be lots to burn at the bon fire tonight *wink* hopefully we can satisfy your insect for November at least, lol
"Taking over the world for fun and profit utilizing plenty of purple platypi and pissed-off pompus pink penguins posing as plastic politicians promising perfection placed on platnium platters."
...say that two times fast, I double dog dare you! (five ti
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Nov 2, 2009 - 15 26
I do believe I've got a plotfish.
----------Because they never really sleep.
Also, there's a lovely fish on my desk named Merlin. He's not only a wizard, he also listens to me whenever I need someone to bear my crazy novel related ramblings. <3