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When Characters Take Over
Topic Started: May 25 2014, 07:46 PM (202 Views)
bionic4ever
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I've written before about how sometimes the characters seem to 'take over' the story, when a story takes a turn that even the author doesn't see coming. For me, that has never been more true than with 'By Whatever Means Necessary'! When I started writing it, I had it all plotted and mapped out in my head. It was to be a very short, 10 chapter story! The original plot would've had Steve finding Jaime in that treehouse, a chapter-length conversation between them about what Jaime was doing... and then Jaime going off into the sunset - alone. The End. Fini.

Except it didn't end up happening that way!
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I believe that characters can take over story when the writer is confident about their writing and knows the characters well. I believe that creates a level of trust of the writer in the characters that wherever their story takes the writer, the characters won't lead the writer astray.
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Bionika
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About the characters who take over story... or the story which take over his writer, the prologue of "One for the other" should have been :
"Mark Russell looked at his watch: 22h00. it was more than time to leave. He phoned the driver's office and told them that he will be in five minutes in the parking lot.
He chose some drawings in a file and put them in his briefcase. Then he sorted the file , closed carefully the vault and Oscar's office doors
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Instead it had became:
"Mark Russell looked at his watch: 22h00. It was more than time to leave. He chose some drawings stamped in red "TOP SECRET" in a "for Oscar Goldman eyes only" file and put them in his briefcase. Then he sorted the file, closed carefully the vault and Oscar’s office’s door.

Why? because when I made the last reading just before posting, I had the idea to add the stamp "TOP SECRET" to the file...and then instead of having the readers wondering why Oscar isn't at his office, the idea to have them wondering why Russ, alone, so late in Oscar's office is taking sheets from secret files...and wonder if he has passed on the "dark side" standed out naturally as it was obvious.
So I addded the words about "for Oscar Goldman eyes only" and put the sentence about calling the drivers on chapter 1 (which I have to change a little because now he has leaved Oscar's office where he should have phone them ".


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Edited by Bionika, Jul 17 2014, 03:25 PM.
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Bionika
Jul 17 2014, 03:14 PM
put the sentence about calling the drivers on chapter 1 (which I have to change a little because now he has leaved Oscar's office where he should have phone them ".


Done :
"He phoned the driver’s office and told them that he will be in five minutes at the parking lot.
While going across Peggy’s office, his thoughts turned toward his wife to be."

has became:
"Russ remembered that he had forgotten to phone the drivers so he stopped in Peggy's office and told them that he will arrive in a few minutes at the parking lot.
Going across Peggy’s office made his thoughts turned toward his wife to be"


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