I write complex. Recently I was messing around with ships in the story, and I realized that if one character got with another character, it would be a whole different book.
I'm completely appalled at how easily a path can rewrite itself.
So come all my complex writer friends, shall we chat about our worldbuilding and how we've changed our world one small detail at a time?
If I made my main character land in a different spot when he entered the human realm, he never would've met the two other main characters and would've died within a week
In my other book, if the main character didn't bump into Pandora in the hallway, his 8-year-old sister would've never died
For me, all because one character loved another, they basically uprooted their whole world. If another character loved her, she would've died far too early and would've become the villain and the world would've stayed corrupted.
Writing is a masterpiece.
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I wouldn’t call it a small thing, but I switched one of my protagonists to being an antagonist, which makes a big difference because usually when making antagonists and villains, they tend to be a bit of an afterthought, and now I have a fully fleshed-out character as an antagonist. She also makes you sympathetize with her and the cause she’s fighting for, and it basically shows that the antagonists’ hearts are mostly in the right place, but they’re going a horrible way about getting things done.
If one of my characters wouldn't have tried to get rich quick, he'd never have ended up in the rebellion.