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Are your characters acting up? Do you feel like you’re about to pull your hair out because they’re taking over your story? Take a look at what I do to regain control over my story. Sometimes, you just have to let the characters take the reins. Keep creating!

Characters Acting Out

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Romance is a character driven art. If you’ve ever read a romance and/or written one, you know that characters are the romance author’s bread and butter. They’re also often the bane of our existences, especially when they decide to run amuck.

Earlier this week, I talked about the magic that romance authors wield with our magical wands disguised as pens and keyboards. What I neglected to impart was that sometimes those wands get bent out of shape by characters who have decided to take over the pen and have us authors on a merry chase to get control of our stories.

One of the tings I’ve learned to do was to just let them have the reins for a bit. after a while, they get tired of wielding my wand and have no clue what to do with it after a while. They humbly hand it back over and I can control the story once more.

This happened a lot with the second and third installments of the Draiocht Trilogy, which is filled with magicks, mythical beings, Gods, feuding families, and even a war. The first book was Ember and Kooper’s book called The Circle, and that was far easier to work with. the book is only about twenty pages, but it’s packed full of energy, magick, and the beginning of a saga I’m proud to have written.

So, the next time you read a love story and you wonder why an author let the characters do that, you might want to ask if the author was the culprit. While we weave our magical worlds to a certain degree, it’s the characters who are the true focus of our worlds while we’re trying to push and pull them to our wills. They sometimes have a will of their own and we’re just along for the ride.

If you’d like to see what The Circle is all about, click the link below and step into the world of magick, wonder, secrets, and lore.

https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Clennell-Anthony-ebook/dp/B07JKKTL5B/ref=sr_1_2?crid=8AFUS3JLJJ3K&keywords=clennell+anthony&qid=1673834955&sprefix=clennel%2Caps%2C2230&sr=8-2
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By Clennell Anthony

Clennell is a published author of short stories in a few literary magazines. She has a self-published romantasy Novella entitled, The Circle, Book One of the Draiocht Series on Amazon.com. She writes romance in many of its subgenres. Clennell has a long and winding background in the writing field, and her interests curves along with her meandering relationship with writing. Those interest range from murder and mayhem in other authors' novels to magick and zoology if that's what her characters are into. She lives in Florida and enjoys being entertained by the Amazon echo dot and show that are strategically placed throughout her home. She enjoys reading, writing, research, and coming up with new and interesting conflicts for her characters to resolve. At present, she is editing the book after The Circle, The Cursed, and working on the third book of The Draiocht Trilogy, entitled The Convicted.

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