What's your what if?

So the idea for Troy's Possibilities came about when I was looking back on a couple of key points in my life and thought, what would have happened if I had reacted differently.  From there it morphed into what would happen if you could actually live out those different decisions.  Would it be good to see whether you made the right decision, or would it be so overwhelming that you couldn't handle it. Like all novels the story went through a huge evolution during the process.  Emily is one of the main characters in the book, in fact the whole story wouldn't really work without her, yet in the early stages of writing she was barely going to be in it, someone who is referenced rather than interacted with.  One of the mentors I discussed the story with suggested that she was an important anchor in Troy's life and was too important to treat that way, so she shoved her way forward and is on equal footing with Cat and Troy. Funny how life works out.