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I'm literally so excited right now, and I'm also fairly sure I'm absolutely crazy. Explaining this to other people, they will definitely think I'm nuts. So maybe someone else has had a similar experience.
About a year ago I started writing a story, from the very moment I started writing it, I knew the male MC was going to die. (Two MC's) the more I started writing the story though, the worse I started feeling. I love this character and I so didn't want to kill him. Explaining that to a non-writer friend, they'd always tell me "So don't kill him?" like it was so easy. He had to die. It was just the point of the whole thing!
So when I got to the part of the story where his death came. I stopped. Literally. Put the novel down, and left it. Started revising a different one again. I just didn't want to have to kill him. So I didn't.
I recently just picked it back up, like seven months later and continued writing it, and at the point where he was supposed to die (a surgery) he survived it! I thought, oh, I'm going to keep him around for a bit, turn him into a really bitter person, that right whenever he comes back around to his former glory BAM, complications and he's dead. I'm thinking it'll be completely unexpected, can add even more depth to the story, more relationship building for my two MC's, and I can keep him around for a bit longer which of course made me happy.
Only I wrote his surgical complication, and suddenly am writing his recovery. Another, slightly bigger complication, and he's still kicking. I think I suddenly just realized maybe I don't have to kill him. I don't know how it happened, and now I don't have an ending for my story, but I'm soooo excited. I just had to do a little happy dance.
Now, question is, have any of you guys had anything like this before?
Where you know you have to do something in your story. Like kill a character, and there's no way around it? And non-writer friends don't understand because I mean, you're the author you can just write it another way, right? WRONG!
Or how about your story taking on a life of it's own. I mean literally. This isn't the first time it's happened in a novel of mine. I'm going about my merry way, writing my merry novel, and all of the sudden a character I've never thought of comes out of no where and just ends up to be like a really important person to the story. Or I keep trying to kill someone and they won't die.
It makes literally no sense. And I absolutely love it. Please tell me I'm not the only one who has less of a say in my book than my book has...if that makes any sense.
About a year ago I started writing a story, from the very moment I started writing it, I knew the male MC was going to die. (Two MC's) the more I started writing the story though, the worse I started feeling. I love this character and I so didn't want to kill him. Explaining that to a non-writer friend, they'd always tell me "So don't kill him?" like it was so easy. He had to die. It was just the point of the whole thing!
So when I got to the part of the story where his death came. I stopped. Literally. Put the novel down, and left it. Started revising a different one again. I just didn't want to have to kill him. So I didn't.
I recently just picked it back up, like seven months later and continued writing it, and at the point where he was supposed to die (a surgery) he survived it! I thought, oh, I'm going to keep him around for a bit, turn him into a really bitter person, that right whenever he comes back around to his former glory BAM, complications and he's dead. I'm thinking it'll be completely unexpected, can add even more depth to the story, more relationship building for my two MC's, and I can keep him around for a bit longer which of course made me happy.
Only I wrote his surgical complication, and suddenly am writing his recovery. Another, slightly bigger complication, and he's still kicking. I think I suddenly just realized maybe I don't have to kill him. I don't know how it happened, and now I don't have an ending for my story, but I'm soooo excited. I just had to do a little happy dance.
Now, question is, have any of you guys had anything like this before?
Where you know you have to do something in your story. Like kill a character, and there's no way around it? And non-writer friends don't understand because I mean, you're the author you can just write it another way, right? WRONG!
Or how about your story taking on a life of it's own. I mean literally. This isn't the first time it's happened in a novel of mine. I'm going about my merry way, writing my merry novel, and all of the sudden a character I've never thought of comes out of no where and just ends up to be like a really important person to the story. Or I keep trying to kill someone and they won't die.
It makes literally no sense. And I absolutely love it. Please tell me I'm not the only one who has less of a say in my book than my book has...if that makes any sense.