From: jwkenne@attglobal.net

On 2014-05-26 20:57:22 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt said:

> In article ,
> John F. Eldredge  wrote:
>>
>> Do you ever find that you have absentmindedly written a scene in one
>> manuscript that should have been placed in another?  It seems like it
>> would be easy to lose track of which plot you are working on at the time.
>
> Patricia Wrede posted this once on this group, in 2002 or so:
>
>> Diane Duane told a wonderful story at a con I was at once, about
>> how she was working madly on one of the Star Trek novels, trying to
>> get it finished before a tight deadline, and Freelorn (one of the
>> characters from her "Door Into..." series of fantasies) suddenly
>> leaped out shouting, "I know what happens next!  I know what happens
>> next!" and wouldn't go away.  So she opened the "Door Into..." file
>> and wrote it down, and then went back to the Star Trek book...at
>> which point Kirk turned to her and said, "Who was *that*?"
>
> I've never done that, but I've had characters take over the story
> from time to time, and all I had to do was transcribe.  It's fun
> when that happens.

Joe Straczynski said a few years ago that he likes to pop into the
"Babylon 5" universe to find out the latest news.

--
John W Kennedy
"When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's
throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of
treason to the United States."
  -- Joy Davidman, "Smoke on the Mountain"

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