I spent about an hour today trying to churn out the next chapter in the story I'm working on, and it all went swimmingly enough. When I got stuck trying to decide how Leading Lady would react to Main Character's latest splurge of self-deluded garbage, I tried to reflect on the scene as a whole and develop what her mood would be like up to that point. On the one side, it seemed a little out of character for him to just open his mouth and spew forth all of this verbal diarrhea without shame, and it was definitely not like her to just stand there and take it.
In the end, I scrapped the scene and started again, but it ended up the same way. I went back further and further to see where I deviated from cannon, but I didn't find it. What I did find (not entirely sure how I forgot) was a very lengthy chapter of Main Character drinking with Supporting Male and brooding.
GOD!
It makes sense now, that is EXACTLY what Main Character would do in that situation! No wonder I couldn't get anything else out, he wouldn't let me! That's actually kind of scary in a way. Main Character has become so real in my mind that he just acts and I try to keep up. Does anyone else have that problem?
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