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#WritersCoffeeClub May 2: Have you ever written a character making one decision, only to later revise them choosing otherwise? (Yes, I know what time it is, but I can drink coffee at night, too) Sure. That's what revision and editing are for. There's been many times where, in retrospect, a character has made the wrong decision for that character. Usually it's not too bad to rewrite the decision and then just add a scene or two to get the plot back on track, but sometimes it's a fundamental decision that requires rethinking how the story goes, or changing the circumstances so that the decision was the right decision for that character. And more than a few of my trunk stories are a decision that's wrong and I can't figure out how to fix it, including a whole ass novel that went off the rails in Chapter Two.