I had this plan for my MC in Diamond Crier–she has a serious crush on a guy that’s a little out of her age range (which, of course, he doesn’t return) but there’s a boy her age that’s keen on her.  She partly knows it but is a bit too focused on Fash (the older guy) to really care.

I wrote his initial entrance scene I think it was last week.  He just kind of made an appearance, noticed her fumbling with some food and that was it.  Not a fantastically good-looking boy but he’s not something to sneer at either.  So here I am, trudging along during my normal writing time last night, getting the scene ready for their actual introduction when splat!  Another guy drops some food on her shoe.

Now I did want that to happen but it wasn’t something I was going to dwell on and he was going to be a guy that Sabina (the MC) didn’t pay much mind to other than he just dirtied her shoe.  But noooooooooooo.  He had to go and make his presence known and has completely foiled the meeting of the original boy and Sabina.  Nope, she’s telling me.  She doesn’t want the blonde no-name.  She wants the overgrown teddy bear that’s just as clumsy with food as she is.  WTF?  Where did he come from?

Not that I’m upset or anything.  Really, I’m not.  I just follow the writing, wherever it may go but I didn’t expect this at all.  Talk about a wrench in my spokes.  Although I can’t help but feel excited when something like this happens because, to me anyway, it means it was meant to be there, in that moment.  I’m kind of jonsing to know just where all of this goes.  It could rightly change the course of my story, at least in that relationship respect.

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