There is this movie, Alex and Emma, which starred Kate Hudson and this guy, who is a writer. The guy, Alex, is broke and has the local goons behind him, so he needs to finish a book real fast. But these goons break his laptop, so he cant type. So he calls up Emma, Kate Hudson, as his stenographer. And then go see the movie. However, there was one scene, in which Emma asks Alex, how will his story end? Who will win and so on. Alex replies that he doesn't know. Emma is surprised. How can a writer not know how his book ends. Alex replies that he doesn't know the story, but he knows the characters, and the characters will take the story wherever it needs to go. When I first saw this movie, I thought that was such a load of crap. But that was the engineer in me, I guess. Now I know exactly what he meant. I knew my story intimately when I began to write it, but now I don't even know it as much as an estranged friend. I don't know what will happen, till I actually write it down. And then I get surprised at what I write!
I really hope that this is how things work. I have no prior experience of writing anything so long, and I dont want the story to meander and get itself lost. At this point, however, the story is roughly going where I want it to go, so I am not worried. When the story starts to ramble, probably I will lasso it and bring it to heel. Let it enjoy its freedom now.
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