Surprises when I’m Writing

One of the things that’s always fun for me is when things come together in stories based on a comment or piece of information that occurs when I’m writing.

I have nine long novels for the Burn and Bad Karma series sketched out. And, while I’m definitely a discovery writer, I generally know the outcomes for certain characters, major events that will happen, and plot items that need to occur.

As I’m writing the fifth of those novels, I’ve had a couple of things come up that are literally changing what I had in mind. In one case, a character will experience a development arc where they shift their loyalty. Another is that a major bad character will not be killed by the character I had originally planned to kill them (and the antagonist in question will survive at least one additional novel).

So, if you decide to take up writing, expect things like this to happen. Some times your characters will do things you didn’t expect. Some times whole plot lines will change.

But it’s so worth it to tell those stories!