arguments

I sat here arguing with my characters for the last two days.

I was 11000 words into my story and had the scene completely plotted out, but couldn’t write it no matter how hard I tried.

I felt like there were a thousand people in my head screaming “NO!”.

What do you do in those instances?

What I did was to scrap it all. Copy and paste into another document and start over completely. The new beginning changes the whole shape of the beginning of the book, but what choice did I have? The characters were rebelling and not talking to me. When they did talk to me, they whined about what I was making them do. No music was helping and I was spending entirely too much time looking at my computer, pulling my hair out.

So, with a blank slate I wrote 2500 words in 45 minutes. Apparently, they are happier now.