It is a strange thing: this phenomenon of characters getting away from you
I just wrote a scene where the characters did exactly the opposite of what I'd planned for them to do. And this is a very normal occurrence when you're a writer, but I still think it's such an odd thing.
We still don't know exactly what happens when we write. People like to be all blase about it and say, "It's a craft, just like any other." There are so …
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