As writers, we know that we really don't have any control over our characters. I want to hear how your characters mutinied against you!
1. Owen, my FMC's (Paige) love interest, is turning out to be kinda stalkery like Edward Cullen. STOP IT, OWEN.
2. Wellesley is a butler to Paige's boss, Claire. He was originally intended to be just a background character, but now it seems he has a crush on Claire and is jealous that Paige is taking her attention away. Wellesley actually seems like he has the potential to be very malicious to Paige. YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS, WELLESLEY. WHYYYYY?
3. No matter how hard I try, Paige and her family are exactly like the main family in Wonderfalls.
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51,532 / 50,000
nov. 7, 2009 - 18 51
My FMC Kara wants to become an evil witch by the end of the book and take over the world using demons. That wasn't supposed to happen! Kara's supposed to be a good guy. Her boyfriend is a knight for crying out loud!
----------http://dragcave.net/user/Unicornsky2982
52,148 / 50,000
nov. 7, 2009 - 21 55
1. Depressing, dark, and gloomy atmosphere turned into non-stop hilarity.... whoops. I should've seen that coming. Hopefully the next part cools off into something a little more serious.... but I doubt it.
2. Turns out, I have an FMC. I never knew this. She was hiding out as a cross-dressing con woman in a fatsuit and forced her way into the story. Tael, dammitall, you were supposed to be a guy! Not sure how this is going to impact the next several million words, but she stole a good half of the first million. I'm mad. (And I totally have a million words, no doubt)
3. I think I might have wiped out, like, the almost-premise of the story. Maybe. I might bring it back, but.... for now, it's gone. I'm keeping the plot, but I just stiff-armed the whole divine realm, and so far it's still working. Hopefully it keeps up.
----------"This is going to be the worst day of your life. I'm bringing nunchuks." H. Freeman
41,024 / 50,000
nov. 7, 2009 - 23 43
Of course it is! That's half the fun of Nano, isn't it?
Mine is turning out differently because...well, I restarted completely on the 4th. I was having trouble getting the words (made it everyday, but it was terror) with what I started out with...and got to discussing some old characters with a friend...and decided to write their origin story. I'm so happy. So very behind, but dreadfully happy.
Last year is probably a better example for you though...I threw in two minor characters on a whim, and they took over. Really, they were just supposed to be there for a few pages to make the MC go "WTF?" a few times, then leave. But they decided they deserved more. Thankfully, I'm telling their story now, so it shouldn't happen again!
53,395 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 00 28
Moving to NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul
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A Dragon Writes
52,224 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 02 26
Everything is going exactly as I have planned it. If it wasn't, then I'd be upset.
----------2003: The Karma Twins, won
2007: Can't Get Clean, won
2008: Michelle Spiller, Private Eye, won
2009: Saint Heidi, won
26,014 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 06 28
Well, I have a character, Nethan, trying to steal the show after appearing out of nowhere. And my heroine is falling for him which is so not good, given she was supposed to fall in love with Tomas. Poor Tomas. His story was supposed to be angsty, but now it's getting even more so with the whole unrequited love thing.
53,534 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 06 44
My MMC #1 stabbed my MMC #2. Yes, they were supposed to get in a fight. Yes, MMC #2 was going to end up hurting #1 fairly badly by landing him in this toxic goo stuff (don't even ask . . . lol). But what the hell! I didn't even know that #1 had a knife!!!
AGGH.
----------My dragons - go looky!
06-Tremble - 62K
07-Breathe - 50K
08-Dead for a Day -51K
09-Breaking Forwards-50K+
40,277 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 07 13
1. I have no main character. Rukeo was SUPPOSED to be my main charrie, but while the rest of the rebellion is talking, he always seems to be moping in his study. Oh well. At least it's working this way. Maybe he'll take the lead nce Draiden dies.
2. Ruke and Tara have made it known to me that they are are very close friends, but they don't want to take things any farther than that when I had planned ALL ALONG to have them fall in love. Maybe they'll change their minds. Who knows? It's possible.
3. One of my charries from the rebllion, a guy named Fuge, is falling in love with a spy for the other side. He doesn't KNOW she's for the other side yet. I guess he'll find that out on the raid of the palace when guards are swarming the place like killer bees. SHE'S A KEEPER, FUGE. -.-
4. One of my main bad guys is actually only going to turn up once in the whole story. Don't know how I feel about that.
----------13,399 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 07 17
Two of my MMCs were supposed to be best friends.
They hate each other. And I mean hate each other.
Another one of my characters was supposed to be minor, and now he's become a major character. And I hate him. And I mean hate him. I didn't know I was able to write such an annoying and whiny character. I'm debating whether or not to write in some sort of freak meteor that kills him.
One of my MMCs little sister is supposed to be only a few years younger than him so that it's possible to highlight the differences between the opinions they have. She's now a three year old.
And, somehow, they are now on a boat. There was not supposed to be a boat. At all.
42,515 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 07 56
"2. Ruke and Tara have made it known to me that they are are very close friends, but they don't want to take things any farther than that when I had planned ALL ALONG to have them fall in love. Maybe they'll change their minds. Who knows? It's possible."
That happens to me ALL THE TIME. I can't write characters falling in love to save my life. My two MCs are supposed to fall in love in this year's NaNo but I'm still not sure whether that will actually happen.
So my MMC was supposed to be kind of a flirtatious lady's man type deal, but he's turning into a very loquacious, slightly socially awkward guy. I'm going with it because that's what he wants, but we'll see if it works out.
78,050 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 08 04
my MC has disappeared from the storyline; he can't vanish, he better show up, he's the linchpin of the final scene. THat I cannot change.
the other two kids, who originally started out as MC's best friend and girlfriend respectively, are now driving the train. Girlfriend got a personality and is turning out great. Her brother is actually kind of smart when he isn't being an IDIOT. I really kind of like them.
I'm going to have to rethink the focus when I get to rewriting. I think Brother and Sister are the lead characters and original MC is now the guy they're propping up. He's going to get the big TA DA but not without all their hard work.
Just... dang.
----------40,198 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 04 16
Pirates. In a fantasy novel involving wizards, Gods, a Lady Mage and the Apocalypse. PIRATES?! How does that even makes sense!
----------Chapters: 6
Characters killed: None
Girls kidnapped: 2
Wizards: 5
Magical Objects: 2
Energy Drink: 8
Sanity Level: 52%
39,240 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 04 51
Oh yeah...realized that night that my novel got seriously nano'd.
It started as a humorous twist on the fantasy genre and has turned into everything I didn't want to write. Now I've got black magic, avenging angels and magical potions cluttering the scene and they just don't want to leave.
One of my MC's wasn't really even supposed to be in the novel at all except in the background, but he has stormed to the front and commanded huge amounts of page space. And I find him rather boring.
Thank god I've almost got my assassin bursting on the scene to get back to levity.
Shoot me.
----------I am not a slow writer and I am not a fast writer. I am a half-fast writer.
10,037 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 04 55
There are vampires. Vampires are not supposed to exist in the real world, and most definitely not in Washington.
My characters so politely informed me on day 1 that they lived on the other side of the U.S. Bright idea, guys, of course I know what it's like to live in Washignton even though I've never left the east coast....
Jack (17) hates Alanna (16) and his older brother Leo (20) is in love with her. And there's this other girl, Adumbral (17), who just marched right in and started flirting with Jack. Good for wordcount, yes, good for story, no.
Gareth died. I had this whole thing plannd out, where he'd come back into the plot later on, but nope. He died when the house blew up.
Speaking of that, Alanna didn't get hurt liek she was supposed to. Instead, Pike got half his face burned off. You're a wonderful sister, Alanna.
----------08- Chasing Shadows [10,092] FAIL
09- Twipocalypse [2,452] UNSURE
32,258 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 05 00
1. I have a MMC. That's my FMC's love interest. She came home from work and he was sitting on her doorstep, and new he's walking around my brains going "Ohhhh I look like Jared Leto in My So-Called life, but with red hair, gosh you can't watch TV without stealing things for you novel, but guess what, I'm all sporty and sh*t BUT I also play the guitar, huh, huh?"
2. It is no longer the one supermarket run by vampires. It's the whole nationwide chain. OMIGOD how do I resolve this.
3. I started writing and my FMC is all "I like to drink, and break into abandoned buildings," I get 12800 words in and she's like "screw that, I like sports a LOT more than a previously said, write me a big long soccer scene, even if you can't remember all the rules. Also, I don't actually drink or break into houses, can you go pack and edit that out plzkthnx?"
----------Death count so far? two.
-Falling on a tree root, staking himself
-Running into a girl holding a piece of a chair, staking himself
168,762 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 05 05
Let me count the ways -_-
1. My number one favourite unexpected thing has to be the Giant Killer Demon Slugs of Doom. They started out as weird dream-monster thingies and just kind of got out of control. Of course, by that point the entire story was out of control.
2. My FMC decided she was really a he right before I started working on the novel. So now I'm writing a gay romantic comedy. I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M DOING.
3. There were only supposed to be ANGELS in the story. Only now I have all kinds of supernatural crap forcing its way in to cover up the massively gaping plot holes that occurred because my outline, yes, I'm apparently trying to forget I ever had one, as there is no sign of what this story was meant to be in what I have now.
And in the second novel, my FMC turned out to be a bit of a snob, her brother was actually a kind of awesome character even though he's a bit of a jerk, and her love interest is really, really bad at the whole "love" and "interest" part of the whole dealie. Buck up, Andy! There's only 25k of plot left to get through, you know!
----------Madness? THIS. IS. NANO!
17,754 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 05 18
My MC's love interest has not turned out to be the mentally ill manipulator she was supposed to be. She's become nice, and the whole thing is descending into a stock love story. This also happened kind of sneakily, so to change it is going to be hard.
I'm ready to headdesk right now. Very frustrated and need some encouragement to go in with the shears, drop my sentimentality and make the love interest the ruthless woman she's supposed to be.