Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Maikadilwen]

Bit characters that take over the plot and shove the heroes out of the way? (in one story i had to be careful of giving a character a name, for once i did, that started a new plot tangent)

I started out with a character who was important to the story and it's development, but not that important. But her story has become so important to the main plot, that she's now a main character and in a way, she's become THE main character in the last third of the story.

I've had another experience with anothr of my characters. I changed his name and the moment I did so he completely changed his personality. He became even more blunt and ranting than before. But actually this behaviour suits him much better than his former one.