Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
My stories are like any family road trip. You have the plan, the keys, the reservations, and everything else you could think of or possibly need. Then you pull out of the driveway and head for the highway, where inevitably the plan meets reality. A tire blows, something got left behind, there is an argument or somebody won’t stop touching somebody. Five hundred miles down the road the new family dog throws up and doesn’t stop for the rest of the trip. It’s harder to get the dog back in the car after each stop and the meds from, not one, but two vets aren’t helping at all. You prepaid for tickets to all kinds of stuff in advance. If you don’t stay on schedule not only will you lose the money, but you won’t be able to go to the show, event, amusement park or whatever because they sell out well in advance Or something else too ridiculous to make up comes, except in the story the character is insisting that it has to happen exactly that way. Then allowances are made or arguments are had and compromises are struck. Once back on the road we keep following the plan to the fullest extent possible, but what can you say? Life happens.
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