*a.k.a. Stuff What You Didn't Know About Your MC And Just Found Out Now
As I was writing today, I discovered that my MC a) loves history (of which I know very little! Why couldn't she be interested in something I don't need to research?), b) will argue her way out of taking the blame for anything, and c) has no actual friends.
(These things are not necessarily related!)
Anyone else want to share any character/plot twists? I know it's only day three, but that's time enough for those sneaky buggers to get their own way already, I reckon :D
Amy
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 15
LOL Well, mine is on a collision course with homosexuality. He doesn't know it yet, but it's going to happen, I think.
It also turns out that the second MC is a very deep and meaningful, not quite what I expected.
But so far, they're largely tractable :)
\m/ Kat
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 18
I hate what I have written so far:
So for the next chapter I am trying to attack the story from another POV. Maybe I can get interested again. Other wise I will be hunting for plot twists to make this interesting.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 20
Was planning for Andrew, my MC, to have three siblings and to live with his parents. As I was writing him arriving home, I discover he only has one sibling (a brother), both his parents are dead, and he lives with his uncle (his mother's brother) and his two children. So huh. o.O
Also, unexpected relationship between Craig (bratty little thief) and Jalyn (one of my canal pirates). Was not expecting those two to end up together. Actually, they weren't supposed to end up together. O:
Also, I just realised I have few (no?) characters who still actually have parents. When did I acquire so many orphans? D:
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Title: Moonlighting
Genre: Steampunk-ish fanfic AU
Fandom: The Chaser RPS
Setting: AU!Birmingham, UK circa 1822
Current Mood: procrastinating horribly
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 20
One of my characters in previous years turned out to be gay. It was a little odd, trying to think inside the head of a gay man. But it all worked out in the end. (Or not, because I never finished the story).
I found out that my MC is going to have a relationship with her best friend. I should have seen it coming, really. Also, there is a secret in her family which turns out to be juicier than I first thought. Her parents are way cooler than they started out. Maybe I'm hoping that's how I'll come across to my kids when they're teens heh heh
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 25
My MC considers science a bore but didn't mind maths as much. Just wait till he starts learning french.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 27
Ah, it's all so deep!
\m/ Kat
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 31
So for the next chapter I am trying to attack the story from another POV. Maybe I can get interested again. Other wise I will be hunting for plot twists to make this interesting.
Dont say hate! Im sure it's not hate!
I just started writing in a different POV, cos my MC cleverly backed himself on a corner and got stabbed, so now he's unconscious and I need someone else to follow for a while (I hadn't planned on my MC being stabbed. he's been making some very poor decisions lately - he's quite annoyed at himself and when he wakes up will be furious with himself)
Anyway my new POV is ... interesting. It's def taking me a while to switch into the mind of someone who thinks before he acts, its sure making me work harder! hopefully MC will wake up soon.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 49
I just started writing in a different POV, cos my MC cleverly backed himself on a corner and got stabbed, so now he's unconscious and I need someone else to follow for a while (I hadn't planned on my MC being stabbed. he's been making some very poor decisions lately - he's quite annoyed at himself and when he wakes up will be furious with himself)
Ahhhhhhh! That is hilarious! :D
I had a character once with quite the opposite problem - she just wouldn't die. Seriously. I tried everything to kill her off, I even stuck her on Death Row, and in the end, I had to blow the entire prison complex up - and her body was found thirty metres outside the building. She almost made it. Almost.
Amy
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 55
Let's see....
I did not know that Morgaine would relinquish her claim of "clan" leader, so easily, nor that she would fade into the background so quickly, and let others tell the story.
I didn't know that Cerridwen would be quick to rage when her husband decided to declare ware on faerie.
I didn't know that Gwydion would turn into a huge prat and secretly plot to take over the "clan" and claim the title of leader from Owain.
Largely I did not know that I would be faced with a historical fantasy fiction novel. There has been very little mention of magic. Very little mention of any civilisation. I am stuck with a bunch of characters who are determined to build their entire world from scratch. Of course the Sidhe have offered help, five towers and five castles are pre-existing in this alternate world which they accessed through a portal that Morgaine opened....
*sigh* Oh well, the word count is working at least.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 58
.... Oh and Bran... you were to be my favourite character, I'm sorry I had to delegate you to the position of a characters pet/familiar. A character who, has yet to be born, and wont come of age for 16 years.
The non linear form of writing is looking more exciting as time goes on.... why I ever thought I would run out of plot is beyond me.
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2008 - FAILED
2009 § The Sidereal Rose
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Nov 3, 2009 - 05 26
Weirdly enough my MC has become a lot more caring and emotional than I set out to make her. It seems that every time I want to make her mean, she turns around and does something nice.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 14 16
I envy you this problem :D
\m/ Kat
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Nov 3, 2009 - 16 28
I completely understand the one-dimensional problem. I feel like some of my characters (most of the bad guys) are cartoonish in their evilness.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 18 38
I only just discovered that one of my main characters turned up in person a lot sooner than expected. It's supposed to be a mystery, with the POV character investigating a suspected criminal that he doesn't meet in person until three-quarters of the way through the story. My suspect turned up in person in the first scene before disappearing again! To be fair, my POV character took a few scenes to work out who it was but still...
I was surprised.
I remember last year I was rather surprised to discover that two of my minor characters were having an affair. They pretty much hated each other's guts for both political and personal reasons (we're talking deaths of family members), and one was happily married. *scratches head* I suppose it was never a happy relationship but it seemed to work for them.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 01 56
Turns out my biker isn't the bad guy it's the snarky best friend who is secretly jealous.... who would've thunk it
----------~ Leasie
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Nov 4, 2009 - 05 04
I have a FMC who tired to please her mother in every way possible, even marrying a low down sleeze of a creep who just happened to be a prince. then just as she thought she'd won her mother over, wham her mother dies. but it doesn't stop there. FMC discovers the real reason for her mother's emotional distancing from her, she wasn't her real mother.
Talk about a slap in the face.
Previously the FMC was seduced by a guy she thought she was in love with. Later she discovers the entire situation had been a set up and pay back to hurt her father.
why? Her real mother was the guy's aunt and her affair with FMC's father had ruined her.
not sure if there will be any more twists.
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Just hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt............
the trouble with having a brain is, its obvious when you don't use it.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 07 24
I discovered a whole another main character in my first chapter. Most entertainly she lives in an entirely different country and setting to the other two main characters... and doesn't speak. At all.
But likes fire. Really likes fire.
I have no idea why, and probably only get time to find out after my exam. No idea how her storyline will tie in with the other characters either. Maybe it will involve a burning oil rig. Or something.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 14 08
But likes fire. Really likes fire.
I have no idea why, and probably only get time to find out after my exam. No idea how her storyline will tie in with the other characters either. Maybe it will involve a burning oil rig. Or something.
\m/ Kat
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Nov 4, 2009 - 23 41
I discovered that my FMC doesn't like fiction. She reads - a lot - but it is all non-fiction. When I asked her why, she said all fiction ever did was tell made-up stories about how things are supposed to be (like good girls get to marry well, and bad people always get found out in the end, and being good and doing right is all you need do for other people to respect you and think well of you). But things aren't like that, and if she hadn't believed those stories she wouldn't have made some decisions that ended up hurting her.
All this came up when I was trying to come up with a book for her to lend a young woman she meets. (It had to be a novel of the period, 1890.) She kept wanting to give the young woman non-fiction, and I kept looking up and suggesting novels. In the end she just announced that she has no time for novels, and the young woman she intends to lend a book to is far too sensible for such schoolgirl foolishness.
At which point her lover, the male lead, piped up and said he loves novels. The more scandalous, the better. What the- he can read? Of course he can read - he and his brother are Scots. They were taught to read in the parish school - and by their mother. And they are both very intelligent men, with a wry sense of humour and a knack for dealing with people. Of COURSE they like novels!
If my FMC develop a fondness for mathematics, I quit. I think Ada Lovelace was wonderful, but I hate maths. And I refuse to learn how Babbage's Analytical Engine works. I just refuse.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 01 53
Oh my God, I'm so excited! - the Three Stooges from this year's novel (my MC made a couple of friends, yay!) are just about to meet up with the Gang of Four from my 2005 novel. I mean, I am REALLY excited about this. I loved those guys, and always wanted to write about them again, but I haven't visited them for so long, and then all of a sudden - here they are!
Stoked!
Amy
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Nov 5, 2009 - 06 06
My two MCs have almost swapped personalities. The primary MC was supposed to be gleefully fearless, but she has turned into a bit of a worrywart. The secondary MC was supposed to be a closed off, cautious type but he's turned out to be quite the charmer once I actually got the two together! And they've only had one conversation so far! It's a topsy turvy (set of) world(s) they live in! XD
I think my primary MC will come back into "herself" once the proper adventuring starts though, not sure if I can stuff the secondary MC back into the shell I had all prepared for him but hey, as long as the words keep coming, right? : P
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Nov 5, 2009 - 07 07
I'll have to read that then! Maybe she's a distant relative. But yeah, hopefully she'll turn out to be awesome.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 07 07
I'll have to read that then! Maybe she's a distant relative. But yeah, hopefully she'll turn out to be awesome.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 25
Yesterday was full of character revelations for me: my FMC told me that she feels like a prisoner in her own home. I didn't realise that she felt this way, but after she ran off unexpectedly, she was quite angry. Her guardian came after her, and I realised that he's keeping this huge secret from her. He's scared she'll follow in the same footsteps as her biological family, so instead of telling her the truth about them, he's wrapping her up in bubble wrap and trying to keep her as far away from it as possible.
Also, one of their allies just turned on them, which I wasn't expecting. He was holding off until recently, but he's hurting after asking FMC for more than a platonic relationship and she pushed him aside. So he's vulnerable and being used as a spy.
I have to say, I am loving this whole process of discovery and surprises!
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Nov 5, 2009 - 18 37
That my character's aren't in control of their own lives. They are merely puppets, used for the enjoyment of the Sidhe. (yes, I have Fae in my novel)... turns out they are only just figuring this out themselves. Makes for interesting writing as I was wondering how to get my characters from one place to the next. Turns out the Sidhe had taken care of it for me.
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Nov 6, 2009 - 01 55
I think the biggest twist for mine was when my original MC's intended partner-to-be decided - before I'd even started writing - that he wanted to be the MC and turned out to have a secret male soulmate that most of the other characters don't know about (yet)... the original MC is now a more secondary character, though she's still a fairly important part of the story.
I'm curious to see what else my beloved boy comes up with to keep me on my toes. :)
- Laurel -
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Nov 8, 2009 - 22 02
Dang! My characters are plotting something, something big, and my MC isn't allowed to know about it - except that one of the characters has been arrested by the police in relation to it - and it's driving me crazy! What are they up to?
High-velocity noveling is a funny business.
Amy
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Nov 9, 2009 - 02 08
The man with the yellow hat actually has a house full of yellow cats and he likes weapons. He did sword fighting at the age of twelve and was a journalist before stalking Tyler.
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That's nothing compared to everyone else's character twists. haha.
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Nov 9, 2009 - 05 46
My antagonist is a lot cleverer than me.
He didn't like the twist and evil scheme I came up with, so changed it it into something much cooler, and in doing so gave me a plausible reason for a lot of other stuff that was making me act like a lunatic all weekend.
Also, when you're very tired, lazy and have backed your writing into a corner - magic can make cars go faster - and also the impending December edits a lit more painful.
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Nov 10, 2009 - 22 21
How about a plot twist? I just discovered that while in a small town to do an impromptu gig that wasn't on anyone's maps, my reprehensible lead singer is going to put the hard word on the Irish backpacker bartender girl and get arrested and sent home. Thank god, I was getting really sick of him. Pain in the butt, that guy. Homophobic, too, which was getting tiresome to have to write.
\m/ Kat
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