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Monday, November 9th, 2009 10:53 pm
There are people who write stories and stay in control of the plot and the characters and everything while they do it, right? Cos I need someone to teach me that.

Not least because the John/Cam rare pairings fic I'm working on is showing alarming signs of turning into John/Cam/Holland, which... I know it's rare pairings, but that's (a) kind of stupidly rare and (b) not actually what the prompt is.

Holland was supposed to be a five line 'here's why things are different' character, not keep turning up!
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 02:10 pm (UTC)
Depends. If I have a character driving the keyboard, it's sometimes a better idea than what I plotted, so I just let the story be steered. I can't tell you how many time Sheppard/Lorne tried to divert East/West, and I had to keep slapping them down. Usually, if I really have to stick with plot, I will not write any reaction or 'emotional content', but get the plot down, and then go back and figure out what the reactions are to the existing story line.
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 01:20 pm (UTC)
hee! It was one of those forks in the road that I pondered over for weeks, but in the end I decided to keep Sheppard separate and essentially alone. It would have been a vastly different story if I'd let them drag me there.