Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.135.19.252-20181116034422/@comment-37530514-20181119191400

AppleBaby12-

Pshhht, I've never finished a book (though I'm writing one), only short stories, and I don't think not having written doesn't make you a writer. Not an author, because authors have written stories, but if you have that story in your head, you're totally a writer! Whether it's books, or movies, or comics, or whatever. You have writer potential. (Plus nobody said you had to be a author to contribute, just to think like one.)

I half agreee with you. I think originally, Sophitz was going to be endgame. But I think when Shannon introduced Keefe, and when the story was allowed to keep going, she kind of let the characters take over, knowing she couldn't keep Keefe and Sophie from having chemistry without making the developement seem unnatural. (Probably why Flashback feels a bit unnatural to me...sorry, off topic). She kind of had to do her duty as a writer- she always said in her old blog that her characters run the show. So I think she has a suspicion that Keefe and Sophie will end up together, and she's letting it happen naturally.

In other words- I would agree with you if this was book three. But we're on book seven, and she's only proving to us more and more how loyal Keefe is to Sophie as a friend and how much he likes her. I don't think she can stop Sokeefe by now, whether or not that was her origianl intention.

For instance, in the book I'm writing, I have a character I originally thought would be the love interest. But then I came up with two other characters, and I realized as I wrote and began to think about it that my two characters worked so much better with two other characters who were ust written into the story as friends. My characters kind of decided for themselves. And so I can relate to Shannon, and while I'm not her and Sophie and Fitz may be what she intended, it just seems unlikely that she would let Keefoster continue for this long unless there was something big there. She's just letting her characters decide. She's doing her duty as an author.

I'm pretty sure I heard that Shannon said somewhere that her duty as an author is to throw situations at her characters and see how they react.