Characters vs. Plot Convenience: A Writer's Dilemma

When characters decimate the plot

I’ve been wrestling with my work-in-progress all year and took a break from my mostly done manuscript quite content with what I’d written. Sure, I had a huge list of things I knew needed fixing, like figuring out ship names and going back to plant certain things in certain scenes and so on, but it was mostly done.

Apparently a real dog and not CGI

I walke…