My troll evolved into a flying monkey

In early starts of Happy, The End, the main villain was a troll. Except he had to do a lot of talking and writing troll dialogue can be tricky. (Trolls don't strike me as very verbose creatures, y'know. Tolkien could do a right wicked talking troll but that's Tolkien.) So I gave the troll a witch as a partner. We all know how witches love to gab so my problem was solved. Except I noticed now I couldn't just write "the troll emerged from the trees"; I had to go with: "the witch and the troll emerged from the trees." That's a bit more of mouthful.

But that aside, the witch was a lot of fun to write. I envisioned her as twisted Glinda The Good Witch of Oz. I like writing creepy witch dialogue. I like the fact that Fin has a sort of thing for her (what a weirdo). I really got into her character.

In the meantime the troll became a mute. I liked it better when he didn't talk. He didn't really have anything to do because there's more headgames going on in the first chapters than violence. Finally yesterday I noticed that the only thing I have him doing is throw tomatoes at Fin and choke him. The rest of the time he's just standing around. Talk about wasting a troll! He's outta here.

I decided to make him a large flying monkey. It makes more sense. The witch doesn't need a partner. LMF's are scarier than trolls. And the witch can leave a monkey at home if she wants (the troll was getting dragged around from scene to scene). And best of all, I don't have to write "I could hear the witch and troll in the distance" anymore.

It's weird how things change while you write.