Along the way doing rewrites for my current project (totally different than any mentioned before), I found one of my secondary characters seemed to scream out for more. Originally she was meant to be a background character only in this volume, but changing her story will make her more important to the overall story in her actions and the part she will play. This change has caused a series of rewrites that will take up a majority of my time working, but the end result will be more important to the development of my lead.
Coming along for the ride will be a new protaganist or two that should have been there from the beginning, but I was looking at this story as a building stone for the rest of my planned series instead of being a story in itself.
Just proof that you should never think you know where a story goes, but rather let it take you by the hand the same way you want it to do your readers.
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