David C Horne-Author

          Have you ever lost control of a character? You know, you're going along, following your outline, setting up a certain scene, when all of a sudden, your antagonist demands empathy and, in fact, weakens the protagonist's holier-than-thou claim to virtue and morality, turning your story on its head, and leaving you grasping for answers to right the ship.       It's times like these that leave me shaking my head, wondering if I'm in the least bit of control over what I'm writing. It makes me wonder if I'm only a conduit for a story foretold long before I put fingers to keyboard. Something with a life all its own, just waiting to take wing and fly far, far away from its intended perch. Try as you might; it can be nearly impossible to rein in these rogue characters once they've gotten a taste of freedom. They sense a bigger world out there, with endless possibilities, and long to shake free the one-dimensional chains that bind them. ...