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Writing...
...fiction can be really weird sometimes.
This evening one of my characters did something which I wasn't expecting. Okay, this isn't the first time this has happened so it's not whole unexpected, but...
He decided to visit one of the other characters in her bedroom, early in the morning. This came as a bit of a surprise. Yes, I'd realised that they'd probably had a physical relationship sometime in the past, but I hadn't thought that he would be that eager to start it up again.
It would be going against what I thought I knew about him so I tried to stop him. I almost succeeded, but then I just couldn't write what I thought was going to happen instead. So eventually I've just let it go and saw how it developed.
Bizarrely, the story is being told from the perspective of a third character, who sees him go into her bedroom, but then doesn't see what happens next. So I took a break and went and did the washing up, feeling more than a little bewildered about what was going on.
Whilst I was wrist deep in soap suds he explained it to me. Turns out I was completely wrong about his motivations. Not only is he exactly the person I thought he was, but he'd gone there because of a plot element which I'd completely forgotten about, something which would not have been good as it's going to be really important further along.
It's so strange the way writing makes my brain work, and how things just seem to come together of their own accord with minimal intervention from me. Sometimes all I seem to have to do is find the right words.
This is fun. :-)
This evening one of my characters did something which I wasn't expecting. Okay, this isn't the first time this has happened so it's not whole unexpected, but...
He decided to visit one of the other characters in her bedroom, early in the morning. This came as a bit of a surprise. Yes, I'd realised that they'd probably had a physical relationship sometime in the past, but I hadn't thought that he would be that eager to start it up again.
It would be going against what I thought I knew about him so I tried to stop him. I almost succeeded, but then I just couldn't write what I thought was going to happen instead. So eventually I've just let it go and saw how it developed.
Bizarrely, the story is being told from the perspective of a third character, who sees him go into her bedroom, but then doesn't see what happens next. So I took a break and went and did the washing up, feeling more than a little bewildered about what was going on.
Whilst I was wrist deep in soap suds he explained it to me. Turns out I was completely wrong about his motivations. Not only is he exactly the person I thought he was, but he'd gone there because of a plot element which I'd completely forgotten about, something which would not have been good as it's going to be really important further along.
It's so strange the way writing makes my brain work, and how things just seem to come together of their own accord with minimal intervention from me. Sometimes all I seem to have to do is find the right words.
This is fun. :-)
Writing
What are you writing and is it going to be for public consumption?
Re: Writing
I've been writing it off and on for about four years now. It took me ages to get started on it, but now I'm really getting in to it and at 60k words I'm about half way through (the guys at Forward Motion have had a lot to do with that).
I took several months off from it last November in order to do NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) but I'm hoping to get it finished before this years NaNo starts, as it's really hard to leave something part way through and then go back to it.
It's an urban fantasy about a boy who is sold to a vampire by his parents, and what happens to him next, and it's told from his point of view. I'm hoping that it will one day be fit for public consumption, but it has a very long way to go before then.
It's seems to be working so far though, so I'm quite pleased.
:-)
Re: Writing
Terry said that everyone has a book inside them - well mine was started in about 92 well before the kids were born and then real life jumped on me!
Sort of fantasy quest - not sure who it was aimed at but it was fun. I keep looking at the notes I made and the 4-5 chapters I started and then put it away again (sigh)
At the moment the main writing I do, are diaries for my RPG characters! I can direct you to one which a friend put on his web pages for me, but I intend to produce a web page for the family and put the diaries on there :-)
http://www.aboukirbay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/valanthe.htm
On my to do list - so I might finish it before I retire!!