Say you’re a novelist working on your magnum opus. While you’re shuffling through the produce aisle, an idea strikes you and you can’t stop thinking about it. That’s what they call a plot bunny. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Plot Bunny”
Here’s a writing term I didn’t know, a plot bunny.
A plot bunny?
Do you know what a plot bunny is?
Oh, no.
All right, so you’re writing something, let’s say a piece of fiction, and you get this wild idea when you’re driving around doing errands or you’re doing your daily business and you’re not at the table writing, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And you just can’t stop thinking about your plot bunny.
And you have to write the plot bunny.
The plot bunny is the thing that you just can’t stop thinking about.
You must put on paper.
Plot bunny.
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