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Those of you who dabble in writing fiction, how do you keep your characters from derailing your plot? Or is just the sign that the original plot sucked?
I usually figure out how the novel ends when I've written about 60% of it. If you wanted to write a particular plot, then you need to take pains from the outset to write the sort of characters that support it. Fiction is an art of fitting together details. That's all it is, when it comes down to it, details that create the texture of a world a reader can believe. You will never get everything to fit perfectly, but the best stories are those where the character tensions and plot holes are so subtle as to be unnoticeable. More actionably, you'd be surprised how easily you can move characters by leveraging random chance in a believable way. Need an idiot ball? He was drinking hard that night. Need to force aggression? Bad day, foul mood, poor choices. A war is fated to occur but both parties are reasonable? Add an unreasonable subordinate.
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