Pants writers, that twist you weren't expecting

[therosesword]

Okay, pants/organic/instinctual/freefall folks, bring out your twists

2:00 a.m. last night my muse decided to kick my ever weary patootie out of bed and hit the computer, repeatedly until I had 10 new pages.

It's a love/hate relationship, what can I say.

But, she woke me because she thought of a twist in the story that I might like to explore. It has opened up a canyon of fun fodder I'll be munching on for the week or so. It also happens to be exactly what I was looking for to liven up a section that I feared would get bogged down by being somewhat expositionary. The twist after hero is off getting a set of books that match a book from lifetimes ago with a portrait in it that may or may not be him (means HUNDREDS of years ago) so he gets the new books and... (the twist) there is a portrait of a woman that he resembles, but his race does not have females..... ohhhhhhh

And believe me, I was NOT expecting this kind of twist. On the other hand, because if feels so very right, I'm thinking my sub-conscious has been working on it for at least the past 45 pages and decided to let this little flower open up.

Anyone hit with that lately. I have to say, since we all started talking and discovering each other I've had a real boost in productivity just knowing there are others out there willing to natter over our unique way.

By the way... this is my "work station." No notes, no wall o' papers to distract me, nothing but squirrels (dangerous for me) and birds. It's as close to living in a treehouse that I'll ever get, but it's the perfect office for me to wing it. (looks nicer when there are leaves on the tree)

Looking forward to hearing your twists.

[Moctemma]

It happens to me all the time. It always makes me go WTF? But as much as I question it or are against it, I let the story write itself.

One of the most drastic ones for me was when my MC [I won't say what story or even if it's here] was imprisoned for no reason and raped. Even the events before that made me go "Seriously? Again?" and when that new event came to my mind I was like "Why? I want her to be happy. WTF? No!"
It may not be that much of a twist for the reader, but as a writer such things make the whole story I had in mind change. It's like starting over again.
It also happens to me a lot when characters die. I'm like "But that characters was supposed to do X". But I have no option but to open my mind and let my characters die and the plot progress in a different direction.