djheydt
5/26/2014 8:57:00 PM
In article <buh955F6vi4U1@mid.individual.net>,
John F. Eldredge <john@jfeldredge.com> wrote:
>
>Do you ever find that you have absentmindedly written a scene in one
>manuscript that should have been placed in another? It seems like it
>would be easy to lose track of which plot you are working on at the time.
Patricia Wrede posted this once on this group, in 2002 or so:
>Diane Duane told a wonderful story at a con I was at once, about
>how she was working madly on one of the Star Trek novels, trying to
>get it finished before a tight deadline, and Freelorn (one of the
>characters from her "Door Into..." series of fantasies) suddenly
>leaped out shouting, "I know what happens next! I know what happens
>next!" and wouldn't go away. So she opened the "Door Into..." file
>and wrote it down, and then went back to the Star Trek book...at
>which point Kirk turned to her and said, "Who was *that*?"
I've never done that, but I've had characters take over the story
from time to time, and all I had to do was transcribe. It's fun
when that happens.
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