So, suddenly Cassie informed me she was going grocery shopping. Okay, whatever she wants to do. I tried to force her to do something she didn't want to last Monday and I got 824 words of crap, so if she wants to go shopping - she's going shopping.
She's standing in an aisle when someone suddenly rams her with his shopping cart. It's a new neighbor who hasn't moved in yet, but has been discussed incessantly since Chapter 1 (I'm in Chapter 4 right now). He was supposed to appear when Cassie, Rachel, and Gabi went over to his house to introduce themselves and welcome him to the neighborhood. But, suddenly, here he is ramming Cassie with the shopping cart.
But here's what startles me...
I write the scene. Fine.
Then, suddenly I realize that I had last year's NaNo protagonist, Marc, ramming his shopping cart into Jennifer at the grocery store. At least, I am about 90% sure I did, but I don't feel like opening up my old NaNo novel and reading that scene to be sure. I know he met her at the grocery store though.
I swear that was the farthest thing from my mind when I wrote the scene. It wasn't until after the scene was done that I remembered it.
So, what's with me and my characters ramming into each other at the grocery store with shopping carts?
Oh, and I thought maybe New Neighbor Guy was going to be Kellen, but he's not. He says he wants to be Jim. Jim admittedly is a very fitting name for him. However, I really don't want to use a name from the Trixie series. I can't tell if he's going to be a major character or not, but something tells me by the way he refused to wait to be called on by his neighbors and just came crashing Cassie's peaceful Sunday shopping trip, that he may get, uhh, more vocal at some point.
Which is fine. Because maybe if I have four characters talking to me I can still make it to 50K if one of them decides not to talk to me anymore!
I've written scenes that I later realize are similar to other scenes, as well. I chalk it up to writing style. :) Maybe this one had to do with us both running shopping carts into things when we saw the banners they had up last month! :)
Dana, I'm glad I met you face to face at a convention, instead of at the grocery store.
Is this how you met Matt?
Well, I'm not Dana. (Obviously!) But I love the story of how she met Matt, so...
http://www.schoolgirlshamus.net/PhotoAlbum/wedding/howwemet.htm
*hoping Dana does not mind the link posted here*
LOL, no, I don't mind, Leigh. I'm glad you seem to enjoy the story as much as I enjoy sharing it! And I am glad that I am not the only one who writes similar scenes. And ROFL - I had completely forgotten about our incidences at our Giants last month! :)
I just wonder what influence I had that makes me write the running-into-the-opposite-sex-with-the-shopping-cart scene into my novels. Perhaps something I read or saw at an influential age? ;)
Oh, and last year Marc's was an accident. After I blogged, Joe (he's decided he can live with Joe since I won't name him Jim) decided to tell me that he had CONTRIVED to run into Cassie.
I think he's going to be a handful. He just demanded his very own (albeit short) chapter when I am trying to write about my three female protagonists!
Oh, I knew that wasn't how Dana met Matt. I was just teasing. :)
Dana, I've done that, too. (wrote an identical scene in two seperate stories without realizing it.) In a story I wrote when I was in 6th grade, I wrote a scene where someone rushed by and shoved a character off a train. In my first fanfic, someone rushed by and shoved Diana off the steps of a mobile staircase.