Oh boy has it! I usually go through some sort of new date sort of thing with my stories. Because Echoes of Regret is a continuation in The Telomere Trilogy I got a heads up. Unfortunately, the new characters were a bit shy and the POVs were heavily on the Book 1 characters. Then it hit.
Driving towards the grocery store for the rest of the birthday supplies and Freddy started nagging about her guilt. Damani started crabbin' about the changing ways of his calling. Piper, well, piped in about her distant and cold relationship with her mother. And Jace. Okay, Jace has been easy-going, busy worrying about his sister.
Argh!!!
They got very loud in my head all through the aisles. I kept having to look at my list to make sure I wasn't missing anything...having to backtrack twice to go back for stuff. I argued yet again with the self checkout due to my lapse in attention.
Finally getting home my characters were near anarchy as they found out I had to bake cakes first. Now, finally I'm on my laptop. The boys are watching they're chill out show. I've opened my manuscript.
"See that characters? Happy now?!"
Good writing all! (And if anyone has virtual duct tape for times like these, let me know.)
Virtual duct taping the characters into silence. LOL Does that really work? Or does the mumbling still drive you crazy?
ReplyDeleteROFL! True. And as a nosy and curious person I'd probably start wondering what the mumbling actually was. It's a twisted dynamic we writers have with our characters.
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