In Which I Plot Revenge

I expect this kind of thing when I write. I leave room for it in the writing process. I generally call it my unconscious mind at work.

I have had plots that twisted away as I was writing a scene into a somewhat new and even revelatory direction.

I have had minor characters speak words I did not expect them to say, thereby altering inter character dynamics.

I have had a walk-on, spear-carrying extra demand to become one of the major characters in a trilogy.

I have had the cumulative effect of so...