Characters never do what they're told!

Hi all! Just had a funny thing I said to my husband that feels like a quintessential writers experience, and wanted to commiserate a little bit lol

I was just explaining to him that for the last two days, I've been brute forcing my way through writers block by abandoning all hope of writing from start to finish and instead elected to cherry pick scenes I have been dying to write for ages. As such, I've been trying to get to the first sex scene, as a lot of the romance beats are important allegories in the story and, well, sex is fun to write lol

And yet, I'm about 4k words into this scene (because my scenes are really 7 scenes on top of each other in a trench coat due to ADHD attaching everything together) and I was just complaining that I STILL haven't gotten to the sex part because plot shit keeps happening and the characters aren't sticking to the damn script I gave them in the synopsis of the scene 🤣🤣

Gotta love how much of a mind of their own they have when you just give them a starting point. And I've written enough to know that when you are trying to force a scene to to from A to F without hitting B, C, D, and E along the way that it reeaaaalllllly misses the nuance, so like, Im just rolling with it. It's just wild how it should be so easy to be like "Now kiss!!" And they look at you and just reply "Not until you've resolved the emotional tension of the previous scene" lmfaoooo

Anyway, just wanted to share because I am positive you all have great anecdotes about similar character disobedience, and I'd love for us to all laugh in our misery and futility together lol