Expect the unexpected

Such as me posting earlier then usual. I'm trying some schedual adjustments to see haow to better optimise my time.

But This is also about writing as well.

One of the things that many new writeres and most nonwriteres don't realise is that no matter how much or little you think you know about where the story will go, it will go whereever it likes.

A good example is the insect fantasy story I'm working on right now. I had not bothered to fully outline the story because I learned that lesson before. But I did have an idea of some basic events and characters. Yesterday The main character should have encountered one character who was sort of the childlike playful adventurer, and they together would encounter at some later time the hard but honorable amazon like character and the quest would slowly come into focus shortly after and culminate in a battle against a great threatening beast that is but one of many making appearances in the changing world.

Instead the first supporting character he encounters is the female character who is found by following a sorrowful song to where she is stuck in a spiders web about to die. And When he frees her it becomes apparent that she willingly went to that web to die.

That was not the way things were supposed to go and many new writers would fight this change to try to bring it back on track. Instead I recommend examining why the 'woman would seek such a fate and how does that mentality change and develope in the story as she is now bound to the main character. It's no longer just about his finding his place and she is a tough supporting character it is about two characters without a common place to fit them into the world and how such things are the makings of a heroic journey.

When something changes unexpectedly in my stories I view them as opportunities to take a fresh and interesting new perspective. After all there is a reason my mind came up with the redirect, and in most cases it's to make the story more intresting.

Never throw that away simply because it wasn't planned. Sometimes unplanned things are are best things in life, and in your stories.

Right I've got some writing to do before work and then after work some more writing and a few things to take care of, I'll have another post up for tomorrow and one on Wedns.

Take care of yourselves.
roving jack