From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-05-26 20:57:22 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt said:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > 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.   
      
   Joe Straczynski said a few years ago that he likes to pop into the   
   "Babylon 5" universe to find out the latest news.   
      
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