Its a funny old thing

Authors always say that sometimes stories take on a life of their own and characters do things they were never expecting.

Recently I have found this to be true. While writing my novel, trying to get two characters one of who is the main character to relate, even though one of them will be dead within the next few pages, is incredibly hard, and then something happened, and they clicked.

Also one of my side characters in my short story I am writing who originally was going to be a bit more timid and less confrontational has stormed into the centre of the story with magic and a tiny killing spree. Laying down the law and generally saying, your doing my will or you die.

It's amassing what characters can do when they your not watching.