Okay, I said I wasn't going to write. But I did say I'd be thinking of the book. I have no choice in the matter. So while I was not writing last night it occurred to me that I'd completely dropped a character.
This is a guy who I was wondering if I'd keep or not. It turns out that he's too interesting to me to cut him. So he stays. This means I need to write him into the rest of the book. However, I don't think he needs to have a lot of page space.
As it turns out, I think that him not being on stage much works out for the story even better, because I've discovered in a kind of moment of clarity eureka moment today that he's much more important than I thought he was, but in setting his role up for the next Leah book. So I don't need to write a bunch of scenes with him in it. I just need him to make another appearance or two. Some part of me must've known this, otherwise he'd have been all over this book by now.
He's just cool. I really like him.
And he came to me pretty much fully formed, which means that he's been lurking in my subconscious for quite some time.
He's made his purpose known. So he stays. So we'll see how he does.
The time stamp on my posts is way off. I noticed that the last post said I wrote it at 6:09 pm or something. It was actually 10:09 pm. So I need to fix that. I never noticed this before. Never looked at the time stamp, so it's probably been going on for quite some time, if not for as long as I've had the blog.
It's 9:05 pm right now, for the record.
And I'm heading off to read. Not writing.
But I am.
No rest for the wicked :)
2 comments:
I love the moment a character in my head decides to not do as I planned.
That makes them seem more alive then.
Oh, and they do it all the time, don't they? Some even more than others. The thing is, when I try to force them into doing something else, I end up blocked. So it's best just do go with it :)
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