A life of their own

[Heledd]

I've been writing a story that starts with a couple separated by circumstances where the female partner becomes involved in a lesbian relationship and the male partner becomes increasingly submissive and feminised. They have now reached a point where he had become a slave to the lesbian couple. There are witches and magic and some dark events.

Do other stores find their characters and story taking unexpected turns they would never have envisaged when they set out? I'm genuinely curious whether other writers find this happening to them.

The next tale, as yet unfinished, takes a darkly gothic path. I'm not a fan of horror but the story is going there.

The story starts here https://literotica.com/s/covid-cuckold-pt-01

I've no idea how far my imaginings might take me

 

[EmilyMiller]

I set out to write a fluffy story about a music festival and ended up writing a tragic dark romance that involves a serial killer.


I'm gonna say yes, the story gets away from me sometimes.

How many times did your initial story end up being about a serial killer again?

Em

 

[Euphony]

I set out to write a fluffy story about a music festival and ended up writing a tragic dark romance that involves a serial killer.


I'm gonna say yes, the story gets away from me sometimes.

Wait. I'm confused.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I set out to write a fluffy story about a music festival and ended up writing a tragic dark romance that involves a serial killer.


I'm gonna say yes, the story gets away from me sometimes.

I wrote a quasi-autobiographical story, Desire, essentially about fucking my boyfriend at work. In it, I described my inner indecision and dealing with temptation as a battle between an angel and a demon on either of my shoulders. The demon ties up the angel and ass- fucks her femdom with a strap-on. Then I go fuck my boyfriend in his office.

I liked the supernatural lesbians so much that they now have their own series, with four stories in it (including my longest).

The first story is called Off The Shoulder, for obvious reasons.

Em

 

[AchtungNight]

Yes. I never meant for Clarke, Erika, and many other characters I have written to do what they later ended up doing when I first wrote them. The best characters always have such lives, I believe.

 

[MrPixel]

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Wait. I'm confused.

NO! No no no. Oh, gawd. Too late. B&TB is an earworm. I've played pit for the musical in what seems like a half-dozen different productions. There's this haunting oboe solo into the climax as Belle realizes her love for the Beast/prince. When the cast feels the production, even being part of the production it's hard to contain the emotions as I play.

 

[KeithD]

Do other stores find their characters and story taking unexpected turns they would never have envisaged when they set out? I'm genuinely curious whether other writers find this happening to them.

Yes, mine occasionally do that, which is one of the rewards of writing with loose agendas.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Like on purpose? Once

Sorry, hun. Bad joke .

Em

 

[TadOverdon]

I wrote one long story where one of the characters fell in love with another on the last page. This was not what I expected in a stroke fantasy.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Oh yeah, sometimes characters take on unseen dimensions and will lead a story off in a different direction. Since I am a plotter, when that happens, I'll usually stop and redo the plot to give them their own lead. Then, I'll strip them out of the original plot, stick a new character in it, and try it again. That is definitely one of the fun things about writing fiction.

Usually, when a fictional character takes on a life of their own, it necessitates adjusting the plot, both backwards and forwards.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Yeah, but nothing I have here, yet. Things like that tends to happen to pantsers or those with pantser like thinking, I guess. The mc in my novel Love.exe ended up in a poly relationship. I've had one or two fanfics take a turn. I've had a story change from where I planned it because a certain scene completely changed how it went and was supposed to go.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Ah, I gotcha.

A joke about my repetition of a particular aspect of a story that drastically shifted gears on me.

Just bring silly about serial killers, hun.

Em

 

[ronde]

My characters usually end up where I wanted them to go. It's just that a lot of the time, they don't get there in the way I'd planned. That's because they develop as the story progresses, sometimes into completely different people.