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Some of your points in post #10 reminded me of something I read about Herman Melville when he was writing Moby Dick. He had this character show up out of nowhere and take over the story. The character's name? Ahab. Prior to that he thought it was a man named Bulkington who would be the main character. Of course (according to the author of the book on writing that I was reading) Melville didn't really clean up after himself when he switched to Ahab either. Bulkington is just swept overboard one night while on watch or something and never found which leaves the reader wondering what was so important about the character who just vanished like that. Of course Melville didn't have a word processor (or a program like Scrivener) to help him keep his story organized either. He likely wrote it by hand over the course of some months while not working at his day job in the custom's office. And the typewriter wasn't really a functional tool of writing til Mark Twain took it on as a means of writing as I understand it. We've come a long way in terms of tools available to us to write stories and books since then.
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