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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Exactly! One other thing that's sorta funny about getting people to love characters that I find hilarious is when you try your best to get them to love one character, and instead they all gravitate to another, lesser character that you never intended them to like so much. Case in point. In my Earthfleet Saga, Finch was intended to be a minor supporting character for Phyland and was thus written that way. In the end he's turned out to be one of the top three favorite characters in the entire series and the one guy I wanted at the top ended up sorta middle echelon! hehe.
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And you
expect characters to behave as you planned? A lot of folks I know talk about having their characters grab them by the collar when they are writing a scene, shake them and say "No
no NO! You idiot!
That's not what happened! I was
there! This is what happened!"
Diane Duane told a story about working on a Star Trek novel, when two male characters from another series she was writing walked in, hand in hand, said "By the way, we're gay!" and walked out. As it happened, the next line in the ST book was Captain Kirk saying "Who
were those guys?"
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Dennis