The WDC NanoLounge

I was so gald to read this. My NaNo novel this year is the second in a series of four, based on a short story I wrote on here a couple of years ago "Zero Tolerance."
I have my plot outline with the basics of each scene, who does what and when. I had the same for the first novel, but one character (Faruk) was initially a very minor character, until he decided half way through writing the first novel that he was in the wrong family and decided to switch. After that one of my other minor characters announced that he was his brother (even though Faruk is a full blood vampire and up to that point I had thought his brother was human, turns out he was half blood) and one of the half blood main characters (who was supposed to be a bad guy) turned out to be a spy, and thier brother too!
I thought the first novel was finished, and had even started on the second, when I had a nagging feeling I had to go back and edit some of the first, to make sense of some of the plot, and foreshadow events in the second book. I had to write a scene with a new character, an authority able to sort the arguement between the three leaders of the coven out, and becuase she couldn't just be in the one scene with no other explanation, had to weave her in a few others. She's not on my character list for the second book, and not mentioned anywhere in the plot outline. I'm onto chapter six now, and she had showed up in at least three scenes already, and shows no sign of backing off. I suppose it serves me right for creating such a bossy old crow.
I have this problem all the time. Characters who have no business in scenes according to my plot outline, show up, throw a spanner in the works and refuse to do what I tell them. I've learned to accept they know their motivations better than me and just go with it. As long as the basic events that have to happen in this novel to set the next one up occur, I'm not going to stress over how or why too much any more.