[censored] pushy, obnoxious, overbearing…

No, not the con-goers. They’re some of the politest freaks you could ever hope to meet. I’m talking about my characters.

Yes, one in particular. Joss Ravid was little more than a name last week; I came up with him to round out Taro’s survival course for my NaNovel. (Novel written during National Novel Writing Month, duh 😉 ) And suddenly today, that cheeky little bastard…

*sigh* He’s nearly as energetic as Taro, and he’s more flamboyant than Rafe. He wants a book and he wants it now, he doesn’t want to wait to be properly introduced. I’ve got three pages of notes (all hand-written, my desktop isn’t portable and internet for Bly’s laptop is $10 for 24 hours anyway, rants about the cheap jerks of this expensive damn hotel later) and FOUR pages of manuscript. And what did I miss to accomplish this?

Just the BISHOUNEN AUCTION!!! Pretty boys up for sale, and I’m on the fourth floor banging my head on a rented desk!

I’ll tell you, though, there are many wonderful things about my friends. One of them is that when I start pacing and muttering, they DON’T wrap me in a sheet and call the folks in white. They just carefully push pen and paper into reach and get out of the way.

Because, damn it, if I hadn’t let Joss out–he’d have found his own way. And in a room full of pretty boys, that just wouldn’t have ended well.

Yes, Joss is ‘cast.’ Even though this…gentleman…isn’t a real person (here). No one else could possibly play Joss.  (that, for the poor souls who don’t know him, is Reno from Final Fantasy VII/Advent Children.  God help me.)