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    The Sounding Board Club Update · Aug 2, 2015
    So, last week we skipped the official question because your club admin is a little bit silly. This week, a day early: Have you ever had plots that completely changed because of one scene? What about a throwaway line that made you rethink an entire character or story arc?

    Virgil replied · Aug 2, 2015

    Happens a lot while outlining xD


    Vervain replied · Aug 2, 2015

    This seriously just happened to me (actually the inspiration for this question). I have one project, working on a rewrite, and everything has happened in ONE order in this project in every draft. Now, all of a sudden, one of the main characters goes and changes his occupation and changes the entire freakin' plot.


    Mea replied · Aug 2, 2015

    I just decided to change a critical plot point in the story because I wasn't feeling like a particular scene was going to work. XD I think my plot is a lot better off now.

    But seriously, the thing I changed had been in there from the very conceptualization, when my main character was still a villian. o.o


    TriSARAHtops replied · Aug 3, 2015

    I'm not sure if this has happened to me, actually. Probably because I go into writing knowing so little about the story I'm writing. I don't know where I'm heading, so I can't really be surprised, as much as if I'd had concrete plans.



How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
— David Foster Wallace