Plot Bunnies

[ebonypearl]

So, the Dream Channel coughed up another story idea. I've only just completed outlining my Minotaur SF alternate history story and fleshing out a few characters,and got the world-building and bulk of the research done. I found the voice for the story,even,and wham!

Totally new idea,completely unrelated.

I have the first chapter written and a rough outline of how it could go (all I really have from the dream are some characters, a bare plot that needs some sub-plotting, and a hint of it being an alternate reality). To quote a friend, I have a beginning, an end, and a muddle.

This idea couldn't wait for me to finish the minotaur story,oh no. It had to overwhelm my dreams and insist on being noted down so I don't forget it. And ayup,I guess it was about time another erotic story emerged. Fortunately, I can gloss over the erotica bits when I edit it because unlike previous erotica stories, the sex isn't essential to the plot, only the idea of sex is.

This dream idea I blame entirely on the channel formerly known as SciFi and now to be known as a venereal disease (that's what probably prompted the erotica; at least in my story, it's not diseased sex. Not between the MCs anyway) and on a few posts by friends (in the flesh friends) on a different journaling platform. Why do my friends have to discuss politics so intelligently,and reference fascinating snippets of history and link to comics that bring it all into focus?

Geeks, the whole lot of them!