In my earlier post, I just touched on this point, but it seems that the characters take a life of their own, unknown and uncontrolled by me. When I sat to write down the book, I created an initial sketch of the characters: their physical traits, general habits, intellect etc. Now though the characters are still based on the initial sketch, they have moved on much higher and have ways of reacting and thinking, which I did not create. And I don't even know whether that is a problem. The characters a more lively and real, though more difficult to manage. If now I force them to act as I want them to, they will seem like puppets.
But I devised a solution at around one in the night. If they want to behave independently, I will let them. I cannot really control them, but I can control the situations they are in. Which is to say that I will give them hell. I will keep putting them in trouble, and they can take themselves out, if they can. Which means that I will be able to precisely act as God. I will put them in impossible situation after impossible situation, and then leave them to handle it on their own. Their thoughts and actions will take them out. If they cant get out, though, I will just change the situation to one which they can manage.
I think I have got myself a key for all fiction writing, at least from my point of view. I cant control characters as much as I can control situations. So I will control what I can. The book will go where its supposed to, as I will create the settings for it, only the path it will follow will not be the one I expected it to. And I will also punish the characters for being so independent. Buwahahahahaha!!!
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