In one line you managed to encapsulate so much of my experience of competing in the National Novel Writing Month writing these last few years. First one character shows up, they draw in a few friends and enemies and I (as 'author') am left playing catch-up often with that sinking feeling of "Oh now, what did you do _this_ time?" Why is it that the most interesting characters are the _hardest_ to get to cooperate and go exactly where you want them to?