Notes and tongue rings

Also known as characters who decide that they're going to do their own thing and you'd better just be happy with it.

Laura Bradford at Good Girls Kill for Money made a rather timely post on the subject of characters that just pop out of the woodwork and wave and say "hey, here I am, whether you like it or not." I say timely because I had that exact thing happen to me this weekend with my young adult. This girl just decided to grace me with her presence. She decided she knows what's going on and that she's going to have a little fun with me and the rest of my cast, by way of a totally cryptic note that wrote all on her own.

And now one of my MCs, who had been behaving herself quite nicely up to now (well, as nicely as can be expected of a college freshman), decides she's going to have a tongue ring. I wonder what it looks like... I'm thinking a little silver ball but Krista doesn't seem quite that traditional... probably something neon colored to match her outfits.