What is a Plot Bunny and How to Slay Your Creative Ideas
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It took me ten years to write Sailor Helga.
I used to write Hey Arnold! fanfiction. By the time I retired in 2018, I had written over a dozen stories about that fictional kid with the football-shaped head.
One story in particular took much longer to write than the others. It was a crazy crossover idea marrying my two favourite shows at the time: Hey Arnold! and Sailor Moon. Thus Sailor Helga was born.
The story was conceived in 1999, but I didn’t hit publish on the final chapter until 2011. (This is a story I’ve recounted on more than one occasion; if you care to read about my frame of mind at the time, refer to this blog post.)
But I wanted to zero in on the state of the story before I got it in on the page. For years, it hopped around in my head, nagging me, popping up at inopportune times while I was at work or was trying to accomplish some other pressing task that needed my focus.
For the longest time, I was afflicted with a bad case of a roaming plot bunny.
