need an idea

BeccaPrice · 10-11-2013, 09:04 AM

I need some plotting help.

my character is a small butterfly-fairy who gets into trouble with her magic, in that it rarely works out the way she intends.

I need one more story for my collection that's coming out in December. Can anyone suggest some trouble a little butterfly-fairy could get into? once I've got the seed of the plot, I can take it from there, but right now my mind is amazingly blank.

VydorScope · 10-11-2013, 09:17 AM

I do not remember what you have done so far... how about a story about taking the easy way out... she uses her magic to short circuit hard work and it backfires making doing it right the second time much harder.

BeccaPrice · 10-11-2013, 09:28 AM

hm. that's a thought. Let me think on it for a bit.

the theme of this book (although it's very vague) is overcoming fears, and not always in the ways you'd expect.

What she's done so far is make a sunflower kitten that was huge, brave cold winds and hungry fish to get a pussywillow catkin to make into a better sized kitten, and befriend a firefly.

crich70 · 10-11-2013, 09:27 PM

Maybe the sunflower kitten gets mad about her making the better sized kitten and causes some damage to the butterfly fairy village as a result?

VydorScope · 10-12-2013, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Maybe the sunflower kitten gets mad about her making the better sized kitten and causes some damage to the butterfly fairy village as a result?

ooo then then fairy has to make a dog to stop the cat....

crich70 · 10-12-2013, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by VydorScope

ooo then then fairy has to make a dog to stop the cat....

And she made the cat to catch the rat, to catch the bat, to catch the spider...

gmw · 10-12-2013, 06:38 AM

... to catch the spider, that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her ...

I blame that one for my arachnophobia. The things we tell kids!

Bompa65 · 10-12-2013, 06:49 AM

Do you think she might think she's lonely and creates a boy butterfly fairy?
After doing so, he might turn out to be a bad idea.

Good Luck!

exscentric · 10-12-2013, 12:42 PM

Falls asleep under the couch, gets sucked up in the vacuum, wings get tangled in the dog hair, gets dumped in the garbage and starves to death from lack of food. Well, you might save her just before that by surviving on the bread crumbs. Do not know how she gets untangled, your the writer, you figure it out :-)

arjaybe · 10-12-2013, 01:14 PM

She needs to overcome her fear of hungry fish to save her new friend the firefly.

rjb

VydorScope · 10-12-2013, 07:50 PM

heheh, gmw, and crich70...exactly what I was thinking.

JSWolf · 10-12-2013, 07:54 PM

I was thinking something along the lines of The Sorcerer's Apprentice where Mickey started the brooms carrying the water and it got out of hand.

BeccaPrice · 10-14-2013, 01:14 PM

thanks, all - I've bookmarked this page, because there are some great ideas when Butterfly-Fairy gets her own book.

right now, she's stealing honey from a bee hive, and will shortly be taken to the Queen Bee for judgment. plus, she's all sticky.

exscentric · 10-14-2013, 01:16 PM

But oh so sweet! :-)

BeccaPrice · 10-15-2013, 05:08 PM

Why do I do these things to myself? 2 days worth of research on honey bees, beekeeping, hive management, and star thistles for an 1100-word story.

*sigh* now to start the research on fireflies that blink in unison. Do they blink in unison all down the river, or across multiple trees, but others further down blink in unison in a different tempo? Wikipedia is strangely silent on these important details.

10-11-2013, 09:04 AM	#1
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	need an idea I need some plotting help. my character is a small butterfly-fairy who gets into trouble with her magic, in that it rarely works out the way she intends. I need one more story for my collection that's coming out in December. Can anyone suggest some trouble a little butterfly-fairy could get into? once I've got the seed of the plot, I can take it from there, but right now my mind is amazingly blank.

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10-11-2013, 09:17 AM	#2
VydorScope Wizard Posts: 3,418 Karma: 35207650 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad	I do not remember what you have done so far... how about a story about taking the easy way out... she uses her magic to short circuit hard work and it backfires making doing it right the second time much harder.

10-11-2013, 09:28 AM	#3
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	hm. that's a thought. Let me think on it for a bit. the theme of this book (although it's very vague) is overcoming fears, and not always in the ways you'd expect. What she's done so far is make a sunflower kitten that was huge, brave cold winds and hungry fish to get a pussywillow catkin to make into a better sized kitten, and befriend a firefly.

10-11-2013, 09:27 PM	#4
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,305 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	Maybe the sunflower kitten gets mad about her making the better sized kitten and causes some damage to the butterfly fairy village as a result?

10-12-2013, 06:38 AM	#7
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,809 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	... to catch the spider, that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her ... I blame that one for my arachnophobia. The things we tell kids!

10-12-2013, 06:49 AM	#8
Bompa65 Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 14858 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Vox	Do you think she might think she's lonely and creates a boy butterfly fairy? After doing so, he might turn out to be a bad idea. Good Luck!

10-12-2013, 12:42 PM	#9
exscentric Addict Posts: 379 Karma: 1033424 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: WY Device: Kindle keyboard	Falls asleep under the couch, gets sucked up in the vacuum, wings get tangled in the dog hair, gets dumped in the garbage and starves to death from lack of food. Well, you might save her just before that by surviving on the bread crumbs. Do not know how she gets untangled, your the writer, you figure it out :-)

10-12-2013, 01:14 PM	#10
arjaybe Wizard Posts: 1,005 Karma: 12012526 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Canada Device: Sony PRS-650	She needs to overcome her fear of hungry fish to save her new friend the firefly. rjb

10-12-2013, 07:50 PM	#11
VydorScope Wizard Posts: 3,418 Karma: 35207650 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad	heheh, gmw, and crich70...exactly what I was thinking.

10-12-2013, 07:54 PM	#12
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,349 Karma: 129333690 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I was thinking something along the lines of The Sorcerer's Apprentice where Mickey started the brooms carrying the water and it got out of hand.

10-14-2013, 01:14 PM	#13
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	thanks, all - I've bookmarked this page, because there are some great ideas when Butterfly-Fairy gets her own book. right now, she's stealing honey from a bee hive, and will shortly be taken to the Queen Bee for judgment. plus, she's all sticky.

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10-14-2013, 01:16 PM	#14
exscentric Addict Posts: 379 Karma: 1033424 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: WY Device: Kindle keyboard	But oh so sweet! :-)

10-15-2013, 05:08 PM	#15
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	Why do I do these things to myself? 2 days worth of research on honey bees, beekeeping, hive management, and star thistles for an 1100-word story. sigh now to start the research on fireflies that blink in unison. Do they blink in unison all down the river, or across multiple trees, but others further down blink in unison in a different tempo? Wikipedia is strangely silent on these important details.