Help! Help!

OK, I have a little problem here. I'm doing the Preliminary Projects for Nano-ites challenge to help me get ready for NaNoWriMo. I was purposely writing flash fictions for it using characters that I don't plan to use in my NaNo so that I wouldn't be tempted to cheat. Well, now I have a problem. I started writing a flash fiction about a character that I never planed to put in my novel but who had an important back story that was key to the plot. Well, now she's trying to take over. I've only written 1000 words with her so far and I already love her. She is running rampant in my imagination and it's starting to make me think that beginning with her story might be the best place for my novel to start. Which I guess is a good thing that I've come to that conclusion. But I've already written a segment that is key to her plot, I would not be able to leave it out of my novel.

I'm in a dilemma. What should I do? Should I let her elbow her way into my story? Or should I give her the boot? Help.

~painted-jester~

Let her do what she wants. Sometimes, that's the best thing you can do. She will probably turn out to be one of you best characters.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put if back again.
-Oscar Wilde-

See if you can bribe her with a later story of her own - if that doesn't work, let her have her way and enjoy the results.

maggenpye -
"He's not my dad, he's just my father - big difference."

Succumb to the muse! Let her do what she wants and start her story after what you've written for NaNo. You can work it in as back story later.

No Excuses. Just Write.

It might be possible to give her her own story but it would have a rather sad ending without including the rest of the story along with it.

It's so weird how this happens. I NEVER planed to write anything about her, she was always just going to be a character lost in back story somewhere. I give her two pages and BAM! She walks in like she owns the operation. "Jester, you know this story is going to be a flop without me. Just get use to it and give me my part." Man, she's mean. I really think I have no other choice but to add her in.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this segment I've already written with her. I really can't leave it out of the novel but if I'm going to include her in NaNo than I can't insert this segment either. I don't cheat. Would it be wrong to rewrite the segment for NaNo, or to just leave it out of the official word count?

Here is the link to the segment if you want to read it ---> http://www.kiwiwriters.org/my/forum/critique-and-review/371.html

Thanks for your help everyone,

Jester

I'd just leave it out. You can start your nano fresh, maybe in a slightly different spot and add that bit in when it's all over. You had no idea that this would happen, I think as long as you are writing your 50K new words during the month then. I have some bits of my prelim challenges (which aren't written yet but that have been well thought about) which will no doubt at the second stage of writing find their way in.

http://vyanae.blogspot.com/

I agree with Cassie. For NaNo leave it as back story and carry on. If you come to editing the story then you can work it back in.

No Excuses. Just Write.