One of the great authors of the XXth century once commented in the following worlds on how much plots evolve and change as you write them :
"I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The mines of Moria had been a mere name, and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforessen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on september 22."
-JRR Tolkien, in a letter dated 7 june 1955, quoted on the opening page of "The Return of the Shadow" (which contains a lot more stunning information on what Tolkien originally intended and on how his plans changed as the writing progressed throughout the first three years of work on the Lord of the Rings - feel free to usurp the thread to ask questions about that, too).
So that got me wondering enough to ask the question here, how did YOUR stories change and evolve as you wrote them? What was planned from the start, and what changed as you went along with the writing?
Of course, this apply mostly to longer project (short stories having less time to change in the act of writing), but if you want to talk about short stories, feel free to.
"I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The mines of Moria had been a mere name, and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforessen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on september 22."
-JRR Tolkien, in a letter dated 7 june 1955, quoted on the opening page of "The Return of the Shadow" (which contains a lot more stunning information on what Tolkien originally intended and on how his plans changed as the writing progressed throughout the first three years of work on the Lord of the Rings - feel free to usurp the thread to ask questions about that, too).
So that got me wondering enough to ask the question here, how did YOUR stories change and evolve as you wrote them? What was planned from the start, and what changed as you went along with the writing?
Of course, this apply mostly to longer project (short stories having less time to change in the act of writing), but if you want to talk about short stories, feel free to.