30 days of fanfic meme, day 5

5. If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?

Usually it works out very well. For instance, when I was writing The White Room, I really didn't know what was going to happen, but I'd sit at the computer and write, and then stop, and go and get a coffee and perhaps tidy the kitchen a bit, and when I came back to the computer there was more. Well, Kelly arrived in the story and she was exactly what the story needed, so I was very happy with that. I've no idea how I would have ended it if she hadn't!

There was also my Cinderella story, A Night at the Palace, in which I was pretty sure Justin was destined to be the handsome prince but I somehow couldn't make it work, and Kevin turned up instead and everything was fine.

I can't immediately think of another time when a character has 'just arrived', but I think it has happened occasionally. I figure, if they want to join in, it's best for me to let them.

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Auuuuuuuugh!

I am a Pirate!

A Pirate Horror.

Well. Some of you may have noticed my impassioned cry of woe earlier on. You see, at about 4.30pm I had a call from my leading man to say he'd just sliced open his hand, to the bone, on broken glass, and was being speeded off to hospital.

Curtain up at 7.30.... I spent the next hour and a half phoning people to ask if there were anyone available who'd played Frederic recently... couldn't find anyone.

So I did it. Dan sang (beautifully!) and I stuffed the dialogue up my sleeve and went on as Frederic. Fortunately our regular Frederic is a big lad, and his costume fitted me quite nicely!

It actually went rather well.

But. Meep!