Though judgment is needed. Sometimes the character who catches more attention should be more important. In *Spells In Secret*, albeit in the very earliest stages of taking notes and starting to poke at an outline, I knew there were four students central to the tale, but then it struck me that I was thinking of the wrong one as the main character. The other one is still there, and still major, but Kenneth is the main character.
Yeah, it happens, but no way do I want to let Eddie become a main character. There comes a time when the author has to wrest the reins back from those characters. Bwahaha!
As a fellow novelist, I found this post quite interesting. I definitely can relate. Some beta readers will tell you they love it and point out a typo on page 77, while other will act almost as content/line editors. Then it becomes a selection process because though some of it isn't relevant, there'll be quite a few gems tucked in there too.
Thank you for sharing what happened in more detail. It's always interesting, exciting too, to see what's happening. It's intriguing still, the Eddie character seemed to have just naturally formed that way.
Yeah, when I went back and examined things to write this article, I saw how that happened. Good to go with the flow sometimes. Showing how he was instigated, though, clarifies the story a bit IMO. Anyway, thanks again for the exchange.
Very true.
Though judgment is needed. Sometimes the character who catches more attention should be more important. In *Spells In Secret*, albeit in the very earliest stages of taking notes and starting to poke at an outline, I knew there were four students central to the tale, but then it struck me that I was thinking of the wrong one as the main character. The other one is still there, and still major, but Kenneth is the main character.
Yeah, it happens, but no way do I want to let Eddie become a main character. There comes a time when the author has to wrest the reins back from those characters. Bwahaha!
As a fellow novelist, I found this post quite interesting. I definitely can relate. Some beta readers will tell you they love it and point out a typo on page 77, while other will act almost as content/line editors. Then it becomes a selection process because though some of it isn't relevant, there'll be quite a few gems tucked in there too.
Thank you for sharing what happened in more detail. It's always interesting, exciting too, to see what's happening. It's intriguing still, the Eddie character seemed to have just naturally formed that way.
Yeah, when I went back and examined things to write this article, I saw how that happened. Good to go with the flow sometimes. Showing how he was instigated, though, clarifies the story a bit IMO. Anyway, thanks again for the exchange.