T-minus two weeks.

Or should that be N-minus two weeks? It's a little more than 2, actually, but the point is that NaNo is drawing closer and I am not drawing closer to having a plot or an outline. Or, really, even deciding which idea to go with. I have a handful of one-sentence story ideas but so far, none has jumped off the page and really hooked me.

My problem is plot.

I am all about relationships. I mean, if you know me, this is no surprise whatsoever. I am about connection, and conversation, and relationships, and emotions. But I have a hard time with plot, both in writing and in my own life. What happens? People can't just float along aimlessly in a story, and since I tend to let myself do that in life (shameful confession, but I'm working on it), I tend to let my characters do that.

So I need a plot. There can be all the emoting and connecting and conversing in the world, but if nothing happens, there's no story.

I can write a good short story, a good, brief moment of conflict or tension and its resolution. But writing -- completing -- a novel-length work has thus far eluded me. Hence the NaNo sign-up.

It shouldn't be too hard to come up with some plot in two weeks ... right?

Feel free to drop your helpful plot bunnies on my doorstep in hopes that they will multiply and infiltrate my brain ...