Date: 25 Jul 2010 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Oh, slightly less random then! :lol: Just off the back of my musing on the need for more crazy crossovers, you bring me Polly, the Delgado Master and a kaftan, but that makes more sense! You left that bit out. :-D

Well, yes, but, much as I don't want to be prescriptive about things, there was a bit of an age gap - somewhere between 20-30 years or so. He just wasn't put off by her scary manner, and so she liked that. He's one of my 'I wish I hadn't killed X' characters, but you'll have noticed that. :-D

Everybody works slightly dfferently, but my experience is that most authors have some idea of where they're going etc and then just write, and for most people stuff happens, you just have to get where you were going still. Sounds like a plan - good luck! I think having a detailed plan at the draft stage would be incredibly restrictive, because characters do unexpected things, you 'learn' stuff along the way, and you need to allow for that. The sudden bright ideas midway - doesn't sound unusual to me. Just try them out, kill them if they don't work, or take away from things, or save them till the second part of the epic trilogy. :-D But there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule, except that anyone who says there is, is lying. ;-)

(I suppose one thing to look at if you're worrying over that, is, can I put the resulting story down in a synopsis fairly easily? And if not, then you've got some serious editing to do of the 'newer' (or older) bits. Everybody has their own way of working, and all you need to finish is someone poking you with something sharp, and I'm happy to volunteer here. And, you know, there actually isn't a limit on the word count, if the story justifies it. But, um, remember the bit about being able to do a reasonable synopsis... :lol:)
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