The greatest regret for a writer is the story never told, the world never explored, the character that never existed beyond the writers mind. For those that leave the mind and leap onto the paper, they will live forever, waiting to be read over and over and over. But those that stay within the writers head are doomed to exist only for the author. And when the writer dies, so to do those that never left the writers mind. And their death is one to be pitied. For they had a story to tell. And now it will never be told.658Please respect copyright.PENANAHifUTtCiYB
No matter how hard the writer tries, they are not the ones that write the story. They can try to push the story one way, but the characters will always be there to push it back. The only way to circumvent this is to change the characters themselves. And even then, the characters have a tendency to fight back.
Why yes, I do have characters in my head, telling me what to write. Why do you ask?
When a villain in a story gets you so angry that you begin creating elaborate plots of how you’d lead them to their untimely demise, knowing that you will never be able to actually carry out the plans; you know they’ve got a good author behind them.658Please respect copyright.PENANAUU0IxKRHbO