plot bunny
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plot bunny (plural plot bunnies)
- (informal) An idea for a story, usually referring to an author having more ideas than he or she can use.
- 2003, Glatzer, Jenna, Outwitting Writer's Block: And Other Problems of the Pen, ISBN 1-59228-124-9, p. 99:
- "Alternatively," she [T.M. Taylor] says, "the plot bunnies may be going somewhere you don't want to go, like when the plot calls for the death of a favorite character"
- 2003, Glatzer, Jenna, Outwitting Writer's Block: And Other Problems of the Pen, ISBN 1-59228-124-9, p. 99: