Welcome to 2016!

[lexicalcrow]

Yes, we're a week behind, but I hope you'll forgive your new mods for the slight delay while we organise ourselves.

Anyway, hello! Welcome to onedeadplotbunny for 2016. I'm one of your shiny new mods, lexicalcrow , or Sasha for short, and we're here to encourage you to slay those bunnies and get them off your WIP list.

For anyone new to the bunnycomm this year, welcome. There's a brief FAQ in the profile, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask them here. Your other shiny mods for the year are aurordark , misslucyjane , and jordannamorgan , and they should be around soon to introduce themselves.

This community is all about motivation and support, and there's no pressure to finish absolutely everything you set out to achieve this year. Anything you can knock off and finish is a win. Anything you write another chapter on is a win. Even if you only write another 1000 words on a WIP you started 6 years ago, that's a win. So bring your bunnies to the table, and let's see how much we can achieve this year. :D

Throughout the year, we'll be having challenges and prompts and motivational posts to help spur you along, and we'll be having weekly check-ins to help you share your progress, or lack thereof. Check-ins, at this stage, will probably be on Wednesdays as they have been in the past, but we'll make a post confirming that once we've all sorted out our schedules. (...Like I said, we're a week behind. How is it February already idek.)

So, welcome to the new year, whether you've done this before, or you're brand new to the community. Feel free to introduce yourself, if you like, and whether you've already got your bunny plan sorted for the year. Let's kick this year off, and get cracking on those bunnies!

Comments

testing,testing

[dialecticdreamer]

One thing I'm trying, since my reaction to bingo cards was to generate NEW PLOT BUNNIES (NOO!), is to create a folder for the current month of writing with the header "WANT TO FINISH" in order to have a bunny hutch JUST for things I'm currently interested in, think are short and worth finishing, et cetera.

This is my first month of testing. If the hutch residency numbers go down by one, that's an improvement, because in the meantime I'm still writing to nEW prompts. Still writing to new card prompts, and writing personals stuff along with blog posts.

Must Write Faster (MWF!) is my favorite sig right now. I suppose it is now OBVIOUS why?

[gehayi]

At the moment, I'm trying not to feel overwhelmed, because I just finished editing one manuscript last week; I'm working on another (I'm currently on page 455 of 521, so 66 pages to go); I've just received two MORE manuscripts to edit; I have three paper forms to fill out (I have the worst anxiety about forms ever, so the forms are giving me a very literal tension headache); and I'm wondering if I will ever be able to get any of my own writing done. I know that other editors manage to write and edit. I wish I knew how.

[the_rck]

I've added six or seven new plot bunnies to my list in the last three weeks. I've even started writing three of them. I was making good progress on one when I got sick last weekend and ended up in brain fog all week.

I've got to stop doing accumulating new plot bunnies because that I'm not actually finishing anything.

[silailo]

I finished posting a long fanfiction recently. I want to focus more on some original fic but suddenly I've become interested in rewriting an old fanfiction. As much as I want to rewrite it, though, it's scaring me because I've never done it before and I don't know where to begin. @_@ Reading about rewriting just makes my head spin.

[lassarina]

Hurrah! Congrats to the new mods!

A lot of my bunny list is going to involve editing (I have one novel draft that's 80% done, three done that need heavy edits and one half-done that needs finishing and then editing), which of course means I got smacked in the face by two new (massive) bunnies.

So, we'll see, I guess.

(It's like how every year I tell myself I'm gonna beat more games than I buy, and then Steam sales happen.)

[leidmotief]

Yay, a new start! My plan this year is to let go of all loose ends, so I have started to revise my fics, including those I never got to publish and those I did. Currently, I'm rewriting the first (unpublished) fic I wrote for my current OTP, and although I see that I used some of its ideas elsewhere, there's something I still like about it. So here I am, trying to give it a new spin and see where it goes. Luckily, it's a one-shot, so I hope it doesn't take me too long.

[kalloway]

I don't think I'll be able to finish all the treats I'd wanted to write for Chocolate Box, since my main assignment has gotten away from me and going to be about five times longer than anticipated. *facepalms* But I had the good luck of getting assigned one of my favorite pairings for someone I know, so it feels good to be writing all of this.

Aside from that, the last week has been busy with real life: eye exam, haircut, work, school (week four of sixteen, so first wave of tests), helping Mom with errands... the next week will probably a little calmer, maybe?

Writing this last month has been pretty much non-existent, and I've not made any plans for the year.

[ofmonstrouswords]

I totally didn't see this post until the end of the February and then just spent the past few days trying to find the energy/brain to make an intro post...whoops.

I'm Katje, and I am a bunny addict. Wait, that sounds weird. (Though I do love chocolate bunnies.) I'm Katje and I have a herd of plot bunnies. That's better.

My big plan this year is to kill dead my two novel WiP bunnies. Both require some worldbuilding and plotting work done (I'm a half-pantser, half-planner, half-whatamIdoing-er) before I can dive in again, so the goal for March is working on some preliminary stuff so I can work on one or both of them for my April Camp Nano.

I also have a bunch of bits of short fiction lying around that I want to try to finish up, so I'll likely work on those this month too.