March 2018: Runaway Characters
~ N.J. Walters ~
CTR asked:
How do you handle characters who change personality without your say so? Or, how do you handle characters whose spontaneous actions change the plot or course of the story?
N.J. Walters said:
I’ve been saying since the very beginning of my career that I’m simply taking dictation. The characters control what they say and do and constantly surprise me. I’ve often been writing and something will happen that I did not see coming. And it can change the entire direction of the plot.
Over the years, I’ve learned to let the characters have their way. I simply follow them where they take me. It’s opened up interesting storyline twists I wouldn’t have thought of if I’d simply sat down and tried to plot out the book.
When I was first writing my Dalakis Passion vampire series, Stefan—the youngest of the vampire brothers—was supposed to be the lighthearted one, not as intense as his brothers. Turned out he had the darkest personality of the three.
With Drakon’s Past, Nic’s past was the key to what drove him, what made him mistrustful of women. Even I had no idea just how that would change and rewrite itself until it happened during the rough draft. Sometimes things aren’t always as they seem. Sometimes there’s more to the story than we know. And the only one who can tell me that is the character.
– Website – http://www.njwalters.com
– Twitter – @njwaltersauthor
Drakon’s Past, Blood of the Drakon Book 4
[Paranormal Dragon Shifter Romance]
Constance Owens has a gift for finding unique items in the most unlikely places, which comes in handy since she buys and sells artifacts and antiques for a living. When she purchases a set of four dragon statues, she has no idea just how unique they are, or that finding them will thrust her into a world of secret societies, men who think nothing of kidnapping and murder to get what they want, and dragon shifters.
Nic hasn’t survived for four thousand years by letting his guard down, and he doesn’t trust anyone except his drakon brothers. The loneliness haunting him has been getting worse since all his brothers have found their mates. And when he finds the woman his drakon recognizes instantly as his fated mate, he doubts he’ll ever have what his brothers have, because it seems she’s involved with the secret society of hunters who have been hunting and capturing his kind for hundreds of years.
Available in Ebook & Print:
– Kindle – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0786R7LSM/
– Nook – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakons-past-nj-walters/1127620047?ean=9781640634695
– Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/ebook/drakon-s-past
– iBooks – https://geo.itunes.apple.com/book/drakons-past/id1324091386
– Entangled – https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-s-past.html
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