BUNNY ROM COM
👩❤️👨 Childhood friends to rivals to lovers
😉 Fake dating
👩👧 Rory/Lorelei bond
🏡 Cottagecore
🐰 Bunnies
GOAL: 50k!! I made it last year against all odds, so my other goal is to not get so behind that I have to do a 15k in 3 days Hail Mary Writing Weekend like I did last year...
Tentative pitch:
Spoiler
18-year-old Maia Champion really loves bunnies. She:
1. Started a nonprofit bunny rescue three years ago, sacrificing a typical high school experience in the process.
2. Educates the masses about proper rabbit care and the joys of bunny ownership featuring her two personal bunnies (Waffles & Pancakes) on social media.
3. Is in the final round of selections for an upcoming documentary about teenagers with animal rescues that would give Champion Rabbit Rescue much needed exposure and funding.
Maia is campaigning her town council to ban the sell of rabbits in pet stores. After all, well-intentioned people adopting a cute, fluffy baby bunny without knowing about the animal’s needs is what contributes to the high demand for spots at her shelter in the first place. Her main opposition is Seth Lorenzen, a childhood friend she lost touch with. His family runs a small pet supply store in town, and they were planning on selling bunnies in their store for Easter as a way to keep their struggling business afloat. When Seth confronts Maia at a town council meeting, it gets so heated a video of their argument goes viral.
The internet is taking sides:
Team Maia — because selling bunnies in a pet store is wrong.
Team Seth — because she’s squashing this small family-owned business.
Now, the documentary producers are threatening to cut Maia from the project and the pet store is struggling more than ever. Maia and Seth hatch a plan to convince everyone they’re dating and everything is okay between them to hopefully appease both sides, increase revenue to the pet supply store, and get her back in the documentary. But fake dating is hard when they have real issues to work out between them, and if they can’t do a convincing job then her rescue and his parent’s pet store are both going to suffer.
1. Started a nonprofit bunny rescue three years ago, sacrificing a typical high school experience in the process.
2. Educates the masses about proper rabbit care and the joys of bunny ownership featuring her two personal bunnies (Waffles & Pancakes) on social media.
3. Is in the final round of selections for an upcoming documentary about teenagers with animal rescues that would give Champion Rabbit Rescue much needed exposure and funding.
Maia is campaigning her town council to ban the sell of rabbits in pet stores. After all, well-intentioned people adopting a cute, fluffy baby bunny without knowing about the animal’s needs is what contributes to the high demand for spots at her shelter in the first place. Her main opposition is Seth Lorenzen, a childhood friend she lost touch with. His family runs a small pet supply store in town, and they were planning on selling bunnies in their store for Easter as a way to keep their struggling business afloat. When Seth confronts Maia at a town council meeting, it gets so heated a video of their argument goes viral.
The internet is taking sides:
Team Maia — because selling bunnies in a pet store is wrong.
Team Seth — because she’s squashing this small family-owned business.
Now, the documentary producers are threatening to cut Maia from the project and the pet store is struggling more than ever. Maia and Seth hatch a plan to convince everyone they’re dating and everything is okay between them to hopefully appease both sides, increase revenue to the pet supply store, and get her back in the documentary. But fake dating is hard when they have real issues to work out between them, and if they can’t do a convincing job then her rescue and his parent’s pet store are both going to suffer.
This idea has been marinating for over a year at this point, so it's about time I write the first draft! Ask me anything! 
