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Originally Posted by ekster
I agree that if it would make more sense for Frankenstein to just be happy having a wife and find comfort in her, abandoning his research and living happily ever after would result in a somewhat pointless 10 page book, but I think you can veer off and still have the same story to a certain degree.
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Depends on where you veer, and whether it matters to your story that your characters took a left turn before they finished it. I guess I can't speak to that, because my characters sometimes manipulate the rhythm of a dialogue, but they never veer. They, and the story, do just what I expect them to, because that's the way I work.
In fact, if I were outlining a story, and I realized in the outline that the characters were not working in that direction... I'd go back and manipulate the characters, the action, or both, to get them to do what I wanted and follow the desired story. Once it worked in the outline, I can start writing and
know what was going to happen.
I can't write a story without knowing in advance how the story and characters are all going to end; that's just not me.