I'm stuck right now on two plot bunnies that actually turned out to be premise bunnies. (Actually, I think most of my plot bunnies are really premise bunnies, but usually I don't write plotty fic so it isn't a problem.) Curiously enough, I think it won't be too hard to work out a plot for the longer fic--it's going to be a long pastiche, so I should be able to construct a plot systematically, if that makes sense? It's just a matter of sitting down and applying myself.
But I'm really stuck on the shorter fic. I know some of what happens, and I have a pretty good handle on the POV character's emotional arc... but in order for it to come together, I need to come up with some kind of clever problem or puzzle along the lines of what the characters face in canon. Without an external case-type problem to turn things on, none of the other stuff I've worked out really has a raison d'être.
I'm probably doing this backwards, haha. Probably you're supposed to come up with the actual main conflict first and then the secondary stuff.
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Date: 2013-03-07 06:18 pm (UTC)But I'm really stuck on the shorter fic. I know some of what happens, and I have a pretty good handle on the POV character's emotional arc... but in order for it to come together, I need to come up with some kind of clever problem or puzzle along the lines of what the characters face in canon. Without an external case-type problem to turn things on, none of the other stuff I've worked out really has a raison d'être.
I'm probably doing this backwards, haha. Probably you're supposed to come up with the actual main conflict first and then the secondary stuff.