30 Days of Fic Writing: Day 5
5. 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?
I can't say with certainty that this has ever happened to me. Of course, I've had characters "talk" to me, which forced me to write them (like, I thought it was gonna be a one-shot, but it ended up being a multi-chapter fic because there was a lot more the character wanted to say type of thing). Or I wanted to write a fic from one character's POV, but a different character's POV worked better type of thing, and I do feel like I'm open to that. I've learned to just let them take me where they're going, because whenever I've tried to force my agenda, it just ends up as crap writing.
I can't say with certainty that this has ever happened to me. Of course, I've had characters "talk" to me, which forced me to write them (like, I thought it was gonna be a one-shot, but it ended up being a multi-chapter fic because there was a lot more the character wanted to say type of thing). Or I wanted to write a fic from one character's POV, but a different character's POV worked better type of thing, and I do feel like I'm open to that. I've learned to just let them take me where they're going, because whenever I've tried to force my agenda, it just ends up as crap writing.