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c/creative-writing-promptsthe_marythe_mary28d agoProlific Poster

My fictional character got a parking ticket in last week's prompt

I was writing a prompt about a detective who parks anywhere. Last Tuesday I put him in a no-parking zone outside a Phoenix diner. Then the prompt took over, he got a $40 ticket and a rant about city zoning. My readers dm'd me asking if it actually happened to me. Has a character ever hijacked your scene with a random real-world detail like that?
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the_anthony
Oh man, that's hilarious and frustrating, right? I love when characters just take the wheel like that, it feels like they're more real than we give them credit for.
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