5. Reading posts on Literotica can produce plots or incidents in a plot. For example there has been a recent discussion on the General Board about watches. That produced a feature about watches in jeanne-d-artois' latest story, currently pending.
6.I rarely have to sit and think of a plot bunny because there are just too many reproducing like rabbits. But if I need one, I use a method John Buchan wrote about for his novel The Three Hostages. He started with three separate scenes. There was a blind woman spinning wool; a boy dressed as a girl and a third scene which I have forgotten. His plot was to link the three apparently unrelated scenes together.
7.Only once have I sat down with a piece of paper and worked out a series of related plots. That was for my 2003 NaNoWriMo challenge. I wanted a series of chapters, all with a link, that ended up as 50,000 words. I used the idea of The Adventures of a Shilling by Joseph Addison, but the link was some hand-embroidered red silk panties. My original list had thirty-six parts but as I started to write, some of the parts grew longer and longer. I decided I didn't need all thirty-six (some of which have been reused for other stories) and that some were near duplicates of parts already written. The thirty-six became twenty-eight after duplicates were deleted. Eventually I finished the 50,000 words with only twelve parts.
8.The basic premise of almost all my stories is: man meets woman. How? Why? What do they do together? What challenges, adversaries do they face? How do they overcome them? And of course, most oggbashan stories end as Happy Ever After.
9.The Macguffin plot. This is the plot used in The Maltese Falcon, Romancing the Stone and the Indiana Jones movies. The whole premise is based on everyone chasing an object. What the object is and why they are chasing it doesn't really matter. It is enough that several people are after the same thing.
10.Saved by the hero. I have used this too often. Woman is in awkward, possibly even life-threatening, situation until he comes along, rescues her, sorts her out, and a relationship develops. Sometimes it can be reversed - she saves him.
11.Random people. I live on a sea front. There are hundreds of people to look at every day. I can look at passers-by and wonder : How did such a small woman meet such a large man, or such a large woman attract such a small man? Of course they might not be a couple. They could be just close to each other as they walk past, but I can think What If? How did they meet? What is their relationship? If any? I don't need to know the people, just be able to think about them. Any story may not be based on those individuals just be inspired by them.
12.Fantasy 1 - Ghosts. My ghosts have substance and can make love as beings with form and weight.
