If we’re not connected on Instagram, you may not have met my little friends, yet. What author doesn’t have a Plot Bunny or three foraging in their brain, hopping across their keyboard, or dancing – the bunny hop, of course – across their desk? Plot bunnies in their heads, plot bunnies in their beds…
Of course, we also need wisdom: a wise old owl perched on one shoulder, reminding us with a gentle “Who?” that it is better to use active voice than passive, or that we might want to change the character names so as not to anger their real-life counterparts. A green dragon keeps an eye on us all, happy to light a fire under everyone, when needed – or to help toast marshmallow peeps during snack time.
Names? Oh, yes, they have names. Like most of my characters, they named themselves. Over a healthy breakfast, of course.
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This was a far better breakfast than the first one I took PB to. Turns out, PB is a much cuter cousin of Monty Python’s vorpal rabbit. A bunny that’s decidedly not vegetarian.
They all like to read, of course. Here’s Owl – Herman – reading Go Set a Watchman:
And Plot Bunny, pondering his purpose in life.
Plot Bunny came with me to get my eyes examined, and decided he’d like some specs.
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Not that it’s going to do him much good.
I can’t cure what ails the world, but as their author, I can try to make their little corner of it happy, as they do mine.
HollyJahangiri
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Very cute, Holly. Very cute. *grin*
Better now – I think fixed the Instagram embeds. 🙂 Hard to read the whole story without them. But there’s going to be more, soon…
Thanks, Vivian! You know his cousin, I believe… well, one of them. You know rabbits. There are just so many of them out there…
HollyJahangiri recently posted…Plot Bunny and Friends
Trying to leave comment – it told me javascript was not enabled in firefox; I checked – it is.
Forgot what I was going to say – it ate my comment. Saving this time.
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt recently posted…Using your writer RESET button asap
This went through!
Comments without gravatars always go to moderation, by the way. Spammers find gravatars…challenging. Not impossible, but as one of many lines of defense, it’s not a bad one. 🙂
I HAVE a gravatar! It shows up everywhere else I comment. I don’t know why it doesn’t show up here!
I just changed my email address in this comment – but I checked the other day, and Gravatar has both my email addresses.
It isn’t me – honest.
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt recently posted…Using your writer RESET button asap
How weird! I believe you.
It has both, but is there a photo assigned to each?
Pssst…I’ve told the Bouncer to give you a pass, next time. But I still highly recommend the Gravatar.
HollyJahangiri recently posted…Plot Bunny and Friends
I did not know you had to assign an image separately for each. Makes sense – you could have one in a business suit for work, and you hang-gliding for personal.
I went and did that – assigned the same picture to the other email address. I’ll see if that works.
I have two email addresses and two wordpress blogs – I use them interchangeably. My picture seems to have appeared here now.
Good catch.
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt recently posted…Using your writer RESET button asap
You can have several for each, though of course only one can be active at a time. And you can use different pictures, exactly as you said, for different emails.i love Gravatar.
Silly old bunny! He’ll singe his fur, standing too close to the burner! Hoorah for all your little friends — long may they hop or hoot or flutter or fly or whatever they need to do to inspire wonderful YOU!
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