In other news...

[ksmith]

...yet another walk-on character has decided to become a semi-major player. This keeps happening to me.

Comments

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should borrow Lois' quaddies?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

How could they help?

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

They can't be walk-on characters.

Thenk yew, we'll be here all week.....

(Ow! Mom, Kristine's hitting me!!!)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::icon posted without comment::

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Just be grateful! In 'Swim-two Birds' by Flann O'Brien, the characters of a novel-in-progress decide they've had enough and start plotting to kill the author...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised this doesn't happen. We set out their lives in the quick and dirty synopses we sell our editors--Jim and Jane live in San Diego and they have two kids. So Jim and Jane buy furniture and enroll the kids in school and then we go, oh, I don't know anything about San Diego--I think I'll move them to Boston. And so they have to pull the kids out of school and pack up and sell the house and prep for the move. Then we decide, nope, I think I'll make Jim single, and so along the way to Boston, Jane and kids...vanish. Jim arrives in Boston with completely new backstory.

Then author decides to make Jim a Jane.

The reason the world is so screwed up is because the book is being written by writers who haven't figured out the plot yet.