I enjoy seeing the story develop when I write.
The characters may appear to me before a story takes shape, as the story gets going, or in future chapters. When I start writing, I have little idea as to where I would like the story to go… I just write, and with the help of the characters, follow the events as they occur.
I like writing this way, but then I only write short parts or short stories… I don’t know if writing this way would help me with a book-length story. I suppose I could have a start and end point, and allow the story to develop by itself between these points. That would help both with individual chapters and the whole story, thinking about it.
The stories are easier for me to write if I like the characters. Even the baddies have to be likeable, but sometimes I have to stop writing the way they want the story to go, and veer them along a different path.
Just because I’m witnessing how the story is developing, it doesn’t mean that I can’t change things. Annoying as this may be to the characters, it adds a different angle to the story… and hopefully the reader.
Myrtle and Ognar Rance are two of my latest characters that I enjoy working with (writing a about). These and their acquaintances make random, intermittent appearances in a variety of my posts, and my mind is gearing up to veer their story ever so slightly, yet at the same time, significantly, over the forthcoming weeks.
‘Hear that, Myrtle?’ Ognar asks with a cheery and enthusiastic tone. ‘We’re in for bigger and better things!’
‘I can’t wait, my darling butternut squash,’ Myrtle slides out of her husband-adapted chair, ‘I’ll get designing us some clobber so we’re all ready!’
Ognar tilts his chair forward so he too can stand. ‘And I, my little pomegranate, will invent us a form of transport to get there. We have to travel in style!’
And they will.
I’m sure…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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