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Yes, if the story evolves to alter existing details then that can be a problem, word processor or no word processor. For some reason I've had very few of those (touching wood as I write this, which makes typing difficult), perhaps because I tend to obsess for a long time before committing things to the story, or perhaps it is what I was saying about the strange permanency something attracts (for me) when it's written down. (Such stability is, to a certain extent, necessary. A story can't evolve stably/rationally/reliably if the base is always changing - that sort of thing leads to nasty inconsistencies that can be hard to eliminate.)
The ones I really like (which include the examples I noted above) are the ones that come in and add to the story without actually changing what has already been written, they just slot in and make sense as if they had always belonged there. It feels like kismet or something, or as if it was something I must have known subconsciously but can only see when setting was right. (I'm starting to make it sound mystical, and I'm sure it's not, there's bound to be a rational explanation if I went looking, but I'm just happy that - some of the time anyway - it works.)
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