How many characters have you killed during your writing career?
But I really don't just kill them willy-nilly. Their deaths always serve a higher purpose. Like a cultist in a bad bargain movie robe, I sacrifice them to the Great God called Story.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now (#120) -- Writer as Killer
But I really don't just kill them willy-nilly. Their deaths always serve a higher purpose. Like a cultist in a bad bargain movie robe, I sacrifice them to the Great God called Story.
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Within 3 books, at least 26 named characters, and hundreds of unnamed characters in various land and starship battles.
ReplyDeleteMurderer!
ReplyDeleteI had actually not really given any thought to how many characters were "offed" until I read this blog!
DeleteI crippled one, gutted another, killed hundreds of vampires, slaughtered the main characters family before the first book even happens!
ReplyDeleteYou go, brother. Wholesale slaughter.
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