Copyright oggbashan May 2021
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a sort of how-to to give ideas to people who have difficulty thinking of a plot.
Unlike many authors, I am never short of plot bunnies. Why?
1.My plot bunnies often start it that time when I am not really awake in the morning. An idea occurs and I wonder. Sometimes I am not awake enough to recall it later, but usually I am.
2.My typical plot bunny starts with two people, usually two, meeting in a normal situation that might involve poor weather. I then think what if? How do they develop a relationship from there?
3.Sometimes I do a random search for bondage pictures on DuckDuckGo. Most are of bound women, but because of my fan base, I usually change the woman to a man. How did he end up like this, but some are overused tropes like meeting someone on craigslist and ending up as a bound, often crossdressed bound, captive.
4.Re-reading some of my stories can lead to spin-offs of minor characters having a story of their own, or the main characters developing another story.
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.
