I briefly mentioned yesterday that I had a wrench thrown into my spokes in the shape of a rather large boy that I had no intention of being in the story.  Well, because of that, the whole thing’s now reshaping in my head.  It’s done this once already–started off pretty small, grew and then whittled itself down into something more manageable.  Once it kind of tweaked and twacked itself into what I’m currently writing, I thought I was good to go.  Boy am I wrong.  Looks like it’s on the upswing again.  It’s starting to remold itself like a handful of Silly Putty and what I once saw as only one story with some other works within the world is turning back into at least two stories with other works in the world.  It won’t stop morphing!

Not like that’s a bad thing or anything but I thought I was blind-sided by that random-yet-soon-to-be-important character.  Sitting at work today the story was reshaping of it’s own accord (actually it started last night before I went to bed but it continued today), giving me a subplot that could rightly be a main plot, thus pushing out the current main plot into another book.  And I like this sub/main plot that’s emerging, especially as I write the other boys in this group.

This is not what I had in mind for them at all and while the tone is still pretty light-hearted, the underlying stuff is so freakin’ dark.  Well, I did want a darker story and I’ve maintained that from the original inception of the work; just the way it’s told has changed.  I’m now on the cusp of incorporating aspects of this world into the main story that I never thought I would because the personalities of these boys is shaping it so.  They opened their mouths and I went, “No!  What are you doing?!  That’s not how you’re supposed to be!”  Obviously it’s not about what I want.

The kicker is that I’m trying to punch out my website for the horror convention I’m going to the weekend before Labor Day.  Why does it matter?  Well my website is on my business card and I figured something should be there should people take a gander at it before I can put anything to it.  So I’ve been trying to throw up pieces of the Raydin world just to have something more than a summary of the work but considering the rush and how changeable it all is, I don’t think that’s a good idea at all.

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