I Can't Get Rid Of These People

I'm working on a new novel these days. It's called Impossible. It's a story of a young professional woman who feels all love relationships are impossible albeit the fact that she's just caught her husband in bed with another woman. Before she married she had a string of ill fitting boyfriends. Now, she's taken a job in Northeastern Vermont way up on the Canadian Border and hoping to keep love out of her life forever.But can she? As I'm writing and creating scenes and characters, I sometimes find I can't get rid of them even when I need to. Often I'm in the grocery store hunting for peanut butter, (low fat, low calorie of course) and suddenly, I realize my character should have said something different then what I wrote just a few hours earlier. The other day, I almost drove into the rear end of another car when I was daydreaming about a new scene.I spoke with other novelists and they tell me this is perfectly normal, and I shouldn't fret about it, but I can't help but wonder if these people will ever leave me alone!They come to bed with me and haunt my dreams. They take showers with me, and they follow me around as I do laundry and sweep the floor. I guess the only way to get rid of them is to finish the book and get it out on the bookshelves. I think my characters are really dying to live with someone else for a change!Best
Linda Bilodeau
www.lindabilodeau.com