Vivienne, Writer vs Characters

 


Well, I was going to talk more about Pride month, but last night I was, how shall I put this...informed by a character in my stories that she was rearranging things for me. For context, when I first started writing book 3, Zarath'gar's Curse, Vela showed up and told me in no uncertain terms that she was staying in the story. Now...Vela Longbow is a character I play. I perform as Vela at ren faire. So...why's she in my story?? But she is. And she's not going anywhere.

Cut to some years later, she finally tells me what she is, and she's definitely not human, but she also just Knows Everything. How?? Yesterday, she finally told me. As it turns out, she's got a few abilities that make sense now, and she's decided that what I thought was book 4 (called The Glorified Treasure Hunt) is actually book 5. Now, book 4 will be half about the main PC's of the previous books, Tal'De and Ziggy, and half about her. I mean, alright, but what's the conflict? The bad guys I know about are specific to books 5 and 6. This should be interesting to figure out.

As a writer, I find it both frustrating and hilarious that my characters sometimes have a mind of their own (Vela has always been this way despite not wanting to be the main character of anything) and take turns telling me, the writer, how it is. Anyone else deal with this? I don't know how or why Vela is like this, but I have to admit, I'm kind of really excited to see where this goes! I am really excited for a writers' retreat I'm going to this weekend, so here's to hoping that will help me with Vela and her shenanigans.

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