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Thirty Days of Fandom Writing: Day Five
If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
If someone in my head wants to talk, I let them. Trying to shut them up always ends badly - like everybody shuts up badly.
I do try to ask them questions so I can figure out who they are and why they've decided now is a nifty time to bulldoze their way into a fic. The answers are usually pretty interesting. And sometimes, it turns out that character belongs in that particular universe, but in a different story, so they're just sort of poking their head in for fun, and to let me know there's more to this universe than I thought there was.
If someone in my head wants to talk, I let them. Trying to shut them up always ends badly - like everybody shuts up badly.
I do try to ask them questions so I can figure out who they are and why they've decided now is a nifty time to bulldoze their way into a fic. The answers are usually pretty interesting. And sometimes, it turns out that character belongs in that particular universe, but in a different story, so they're just sort of poking their head in for fun, and to let me know there's more to this universe than I thought there was.