Plot bunny poll

[lobelia321]

[Poll #1192034]

Reason for poll:
I have a dream. This dream is to write an orig-novel. At the moment, my problem is that I can't fix on one plot bunny. Plot ideas whirl around. Some of the above have been written up as nanowrimos, others have been started, others exist in fanfic form in huge ringbinders, yet others exist in thousands of words of orig draft.

I listed all my plot bunnies, with the help of the wonderful software of Scrivener, and extracted the above for polling. I also did a feedback diagnosis (statistics only, not substance of feedback). I listed my top ten fics (that got the most feedback) and then ranked these fic in my order of preference, and then diagnosed the characteristics of the top 4 fics. The characteristics are:

Atmosphere; choice; lyrical/fantasy; strong voice; dialogue; long + involved; tension (Spannung); 3rd person past; mixed 3rd person past/3rd person present/1st person.
Also: reconciliation; recognition; humour; details; vocab; physical; 1st person past.

Can I make these into a recipe? *headpalms*

Next, I will diagnose what feedbackers themselves wrote. Anal navel gazing rules.

Comments

[mandalaya.livejournal.com]

I picked Car Love, Online Love and Chemistry Textbook because I find that the ways in which people meet and become romantically involved are many, strange and intriguing. And perhaps because I've given up meeting anyone in any normal way. Also, I've thought about the Online Love situation many times before - to tell the truth or not, many tricky questions there - and I'm interested to see your take on it.

I'm so glad you're feeling better now.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I see what you mean. Thank you very much for explaining your choice. That is really helpful. The online thing intrigues me totally, partly because I spend so much time of my life online and the online realm is such a cathected site for me yet it barely features in the novels I read.

[cinzia.livejournal.com]

I ticked three boxes, but I just. I need to read the thing with the witch, the colliding suns, and the goat boy. Omg. Just had to tell you this. ;)

Also, happy you're feeling happier, yay! :D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The witch one is so old; it's been in my head since high school days. It's total fantasy, and I've gone off fantasy. My conscious rational brain tells me 'FANTASY, YOUR NAME IS SHLOCK!' Yet my brainstem wot produces creative urges and swoonings insists on this bunny. *sigh* I can see that I'll have to read all sorts of fantasy for RESEARCH purposes now...

Ooh, Alma-Tadema in icon! I have used this in a paper in the past! (It is A-T, isn't it? *squints*)

Also: CINZIA!!! *glomps* Or should that be: Glompo io!?

[blithesea.livejournal.com]

Picking only three was very, very hard.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You are very flattering. And if you thought it was hard, picture me! Every time I try to pin one of these darned bunnies down, another one pops up from behind a nearby bush!!!

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Chemistry textbook is the most appealing for a short story. It could be a plot element in a novel, with, like, Some Other Stuff going on.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, but I was thinking of a novel. I should have specified, perhaps... but I didn't want to prejudice people! And yes, how to eke out one little bunny to last for hundreds of pages. Hm, not that fics initially conceived as pithy and concise haven't got out of my hands before and swelled up to unwieldy proportions... Thank you for partaking!

[anitac588.livejournal.com]

OK personal reasons for my choices, :-):
I picked car love, bc I'd like to see something good come out of enormous time we spend in the car, also; when I'm in the car, it is a different world, so to speak, I'd like to see how the transition to interaction would be...
Cactus, bc I'd love to be elderly woman seducing Ronaldo, *g*.

Music rape: You had me at A boy is in love with his music teacher who makes him perform sexual favours. (I'm sick, I know. No remorse, *g*.)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. Thanks for explaining that. I, too, sit in the car a lot (except for recently because we're trying to Walk and Cycle More, now that the weather's nicer), and it's a world unto its own. I do have a certain 'driving' personality. The car is like a little world: what we put in it, what music we have in it, how we perceive the world through it.

The football one was a tactic to smuggle in my other obsession... and every game I see would be RESEARCH! Isn't that clever?

The music rape one is totally sick and indulgent and angsty and makes me swoon with headiness. I've written loads and loads of it, too... *whispers* It's thinly veiled Karl Urban, and this icon illustrates this particular Karl, and years later he falls in love with Dom, except it's all fucked up because he's fucked up. *runs away*

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

I am awed by the teemingness of your bunnies. And by your analysis of your top ten fics. Sadly, I suspect the common denominator of mine is Smut.

Have you seen this? http://community.livejournal.com/otw_onlinecon/718.html
There is at least one prompt that speaks your name.

What is Scrivener? Would you recommend it?

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

yep, still prevaricating re review.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Do you know about structured procrastination? It has quite changed my attitude to faffing about!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Scrivener is this nifty writing software. I really like it! Also, it is written by one bloke in England so I'm not supporting the Evil Monopolistic Gates Empire of Evol!MS Word. Which pleases me mightily. It is fab! It has galvanised me into new levels of creativity!

And by 'speaks my name', do you mean the Draco/turtle one???? *laughs* Am I so predictable?

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the Verboten Liebe (?sp) one ... though by all means Draco/turtle too!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh. There was a Verbotene Liebe one? I didn't even see it, hahah!

Have been wallowing in feedbacks of yesteryear. Will post some data soon. I am trying to USE feedback to TELL me what orignovel to write. Seems to be as good a method as any. I am being incredibly statistical about it!

And inbetween, I get terribly nostalgic as long-forgotten themes and tropes and names scroll by, and I think, what became of all those people? What became of all that love?

Am I getting old?

Does lotrips fandom do something to you, open up a hole or something, that can never be repaired nor filled??