Where have all my bunnies gone? Long time passing...

[mrv3000]

I've been bunny-less for a while now and I wish bunnies were still hopping through my mind. Just...something. It's not enough to say to myself "I shall write [insert genre of choice] now." I need that one little bunny to go off of like "Sarah Jane rolls her eyes at D/R" or "Gallifreyans have babies in cubes."

I'm sure most other writers are the same way, so I guess I'm just whining. Whine whine whine.

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[tripocket.livejournal.com]

Perhaps cow cubes? And we all know that Sarah Jane rolls her eyes repeatedly when the Doctor and Rose stop by for tea. Well, he says it's for tea. Rose knows it's because it's the closest he actually wants to be to Jackie and he's hoping that visiting one female is as good as visiting any other.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Cow cubes. Mwah.

And ha! I really wish I knew what life was like in the altverse now. That might be part of my problem - I generally prefer to write in the "present" but that whole altverse thing is one big question mark. Other than RTD saying they're "happy." NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION, O SPARKLY ONE.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

It's like that in all creative efforts. My "bunnies" left me for over two weeks. Last night was the first time I was able to start vidding again.

I hope the bunnies stay a while...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Glad they came back for you!

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

And it's with the Winchesters from Supernatural as an 80s detective show. :)

A very bizarre reboot to my hobby...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HA!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I find that often my problem isn't lack of idea/premise so much as... I dunno, lack of a starting line, maybe. I'll think over the same general idea for days/weeks/months and never actually get anything about it written down, and then one day I'll have an entirely unrelated idea and get the whole thing written in three hours. I don't know why some ideas come to fruition so easily and some don't, but it's annoying. I'm very fond of some of the ideas that have been shelved in my head for some months now.

But in terms of actual-ideas-I-can-act-on, I've been distinctly lacking for a couple months as well.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

:D Sounds like a familiar writing process.

I'm really thinking that part of the problem is the lack of any new canon for a while now. At first it seemed wonderful to have a completely blank slate to write in, but I'm finding that I prefer to write stuff that could fit in canon.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Oh I absolutely prefer to have some kind of canon frame, so the absence of new canon is a big part of it for me. I'm hoping I like s5 and that it gives me some holes to fill. The blank slate is nice, but you do eventually reach a point where you feel like you've kind of done everything. I mean, I've (sort of) killed them both off and everything. I've actually really been enjoying doing that things-I-wouldn't-write meme because it's been sort of forcing me to write something different.

I am still not writing Sheldon/Anyone, though.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh I absolutely prefer to have some kind of canon frame, so the absence of new canon is a big part of it for me. I'm hoping I like s5 and that it gives me some holes to fill. The blank slate is nice, but you do eventually reach a point where you feel like you've kind of done everything. I mean, I've (sort of) killed them both off and everything. I've actually really been enjoying doing that things-I-wouldn't-write meme because it's been sort of forcing me to write something different.

It'd be nice to get into something like that, but I think I'm too much of a canon whore.

I am still not writing Sheldon/Anyone, though.

Aw, come on! (Besides, since I don't watch that show you could write Sheldon like Captain Jack and I would have NO idea.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

lol I keep trying to write the Doctor/Donna one and my brain keeps getting all confused by the lack of canon. I also seem to have a problem where even though technically the meme is just "a snippet" and I don't need to provide context, my brain really really doesn't like leaving the scene unfinished.

NEVERRR. You have bested me. You and sweetcherrytree and professor_spork.

[professor-spork.livejournal.com]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MINE IS AN EVIL LAUGH.

[catyuy.livejournal.com]

I'd offload my bunnies on you but it seems the Doctor Who ones are keeping quiet as of late except for random crack bites.
Its the White Collar and Chuck ones I need to corral and muzzle.
Sadly my WritingMuse has vanished again but left IdeaMuse in charge of the plotbunnies.......oh dear.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I really do blame the lack of new canon.

You know, maybe that DW virtual series will actually inspire some bunnies.

[yourebrilliant.livejournal.com]

Music can be very conducive to bunnies, I find. I've got about 7 billion dramione fics to write from songs on my playlist. You could check out comms doing fic exchanges/prompts, you could take an idea you've already written for one fandom and see if you can apply it to another, or get a friend to give you a very general prompt and see how many fandoms you can apply it to. Even if it's just drabbles/ficlets if you can keep your hand in, the bunnies tend to wake up again ;D

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. A prompt community might be a good idea. I've never been one who can write on command, but a prompt with no time limit is different than a ficathon...

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Man, I've been feeling like this for a while as well. Kali and I wrote that big fic after the last special in... like... a week, and I think after that, I sort of had this feeling of "Well... I've said everything I ever need to say about this relationship and the regeneration and Eleven and the idea of Eleven/Rose, WHAT NOW???"

But now I'm really excited about my AU fic, so we'll see if that goes anywhere.

I wish you inspiration. What about something like the Doctor getting his first human illness? Or like breaking his arm or something and being really irritated about the whole thing? UGH NHS AND HOSPITALS.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I did a post JE fic and also an Eleven fic that sort of ended my drive to "set things right," but it'd be fun to still have bunnies to do short fics.

And didn't I/we do a fic where the Doctor gets hurt? Maybe that was Rose... :D

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, something about those long fics are really consuming. The one Kali and I wrote after the last Special was... therapy for me, in an odd way. Kind of a way to let go of Ten and deal with Eleven, y'know, getting on with his life. But then after that, it really did leave me absent of much desire to keeping writing.

Did we? We did write some Rose!hurt in that Christmas fic with Opal, I guess.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm thinking of that Christmas fic.

[erateini.livejournal.com]

*Dangles carrot for bunnies*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Go get the carrot, bunnies!

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

If you find your bunnies, please let me know, because I'm sure mine must be hanging out with yours. Had a bit of a fic flurry there for a couple of months, but now they're obviously hiding from, or possibly affected by, an Exterminatus carried out by the Imperial Inquisition again.

Darn plot bunnies!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

They're obviously all at some party we're not invited to!

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

I hate it when that happens!

Of course, it does make you wonder, what sort of party do plot bunnies attend?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*tries to think of a pun*

*fails*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I BET WHEREVER THEY HOST THEIR PARTIES IS JUST HOPPING RIGHT NOW.


That was terrible, I hate myself.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*GROANS*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

My friend caught the eye of a man once who calls himself "the pun master" which ...is.. as charming as it sounds. Omfg it was terrible. I think I even gave him a tag because I used to post samples of his awful puns.

Anyway the point is, I blame his influence.

[skippity-doo.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, for a minute there I thought you meant THIS kind of bunny.

This kind is not so helpful for fic and mostly disapproves of everything.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

AWW! BUNNY!

[kynaii.livejournal.com]

I want to see Nine meet Handy.
Actually, I want anyone from 1- 9 to meet Handy.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That could be interesting!

[professor-spork.livejournal.com]

Mine is almost the opposite problem, really. My favorite kind of fic is introspective and looks back over long periods of time, so getting to see everything through the lens of the Happy Cloen Ending really helps me to focus and see the arcs.

On the other hand, it makes it much harder for me to develop the little snippets of ideas I've had for, like, things with actual PLOT, because... well, we know how it ends, don't we?

But I can't stay away from meaningless fluff for long.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That's a big problem with writing in the past for me - I know where the story's going, so it's hard to stray very far.

[audrich.livejournal.com]

Gagh - now I've got that tune STUCK IN MY HEAD right before a training session :P)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Sorry! XD

[erikau.livejournal.com]

Bunny ahoy.

Rose says "I love the Doctor. Every year he wants to color Easter eggs. You know, for himself. He's over 900."

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Awwww! :)