A character takes over again

It happened again. As I was writing the first draft for the "Tourist of Infinity", a character that was going to be a walk-on decided that he had to be a major player. This happened when I was writing "The Negative's Tale", too. That character became intrinsic to the essence of that novel and has carried over into the sequel. Now another individual has taken independent life. In "The Negative's Tale", Mitchell Ebberhaus essentially wrote himself. All I needed to do was make certain that he had living companions, places to be, and scenes to play. Now Jim Tiesle is doing the same thing. This is part of what makes writing fun.