The voices in my head have British accents...

[gridlore]

... and seem to be fond of alliteration.

I recently dredged up a story fragment I wrote several years ago for a fresh look. I rewrote it to take it out of the Warhammer40K universe, and expanded it a bit. At which point, Kollin, my view point character, started speaking like a Brit.

This was not planned. He just got written that way without my really intending it. Works for me.

Then I was writing what will be the second half of chapter 1. At some point, I swear Kollin looked at me and said, quite distinctly, "you know I'm lying about all of this, right? I'm a con man, a liar. Congrats, me boy, you have your first Unreliable Narrator." Which means I'm free to take Kollin on a twisted tale, and reveal at the end he made the whole thing up to amuse himself while being interviewed by a historian.

I've already done a first draft of the final chapter.

Does this happen to other writers?

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[nodrog]

It's probably because his name is pronounced “Colin,” a particularly British name.

If “recently” is post-Izzard, that would help explain it also.

As I said in a writing meme long ago, “I'm a writer, not a nut; I don't hear voices in my head.”  But when a character shifts around into a better form than originally intended, it can indeed be quite satisfying.

[gridlore]

The name is a nod to Dani and Eytan Kollin, who have been very supportive of my attempts to start writing.

The writing was done pre-Izzard, but I will admit that the show did add a few wrinkles.