I’ve become a plotter over the years, which is clearly the way I’m meant to be, because when I was pantsing, I never had those moments. Small things, like ‘Ha, she said something funny’ but nothing pivotal in terms of conflict or character development. Now that I plot, I DO get those moments (backwards, isn’t it?). I mean, I know which scenes to write where and how they need to end, but it’s the getting there WITHIN the scenes that I don’t tend to plot. I am constantly amazed and delighted when I put the characters together (in a patisserie, last week) and say ‘Get from point A to point B’ and they do it in a way that was so much more emotional and entertaining than I was expecting. And I love it.

So happy it’s made your whole story worthwhile 🙂

Hubby laughs when I say ‘I was writing then HE said this and I never thought SHE would say that but she went there…”

Yes characters are individual entities and can surprise in wonderful ways!

It’s like finding the prize in your Crackerjacks.

Go YOU!!!