From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
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   John F. Eldredge  wrote:   
   >   
   >Do you ever find that you have absentmindedly written a scene in one   
   >manuscript that should have been placed in another?  It seems like it   
   >would be easy to lose track of which plot you are working on at the time.   
      
   Patricia Wrede posted this once on this group, in 2002 or so:   
      
   >Diane Duane told a wonderful story at a con I was at once, about   
   >how she was working madly on one of the Star Trek novels, trying to   
   >get it finished before a tight deadline, and Freelorn (one of the   
   >characters from her "Door Into..." series of fantasies) suddenly   
   >leaped out shouting, "I know what happens next!  I know what happens   
   >next!" and wouldn't go away.  So she opened the "Door Into..." file   
   >and wrote it down, and then went back to the Star Trek book...at   
   >which point Kirk turned to her and said, "Who was *that*?"   
      
   I've never done that, but I've had characters take over the story   
   from time to time, and all I had to do was transcribe.  It's fun   
   when that happens.   
      
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