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Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now (#120) -- Writer as Killer

How many characters have you killed during your writing career?

Counting the prison of super villains in "T-Minus One" (available in Show Me A Hero), more than 500. More than enough to put me on the FBI's Most Wanted if they were real.

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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5 comments:

  1. Ed CrandellMarch 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM

    Within 3 books, at least 26 named characters, and hundreds of unnamed characters in various land and starship battles.

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  2. seanhtaylorMarch 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM

    Murderer!

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    1. Ed CrandellMarch 30, 2012 at 8:16 AM

      I had actually not really given any thought to how many characters were "offed" until I read this blog!

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  3. James R. Tuck Dark Urban Fantasy AuthorMarch 26, 2012 at 3:32 PM

    I crippled one, gutted another, killed hundreds of vampires, slaughtered the main characters family before the first book even happens!

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  4. seanhtaylorMarch 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM

    You go, brother. Wholesale slaughter.

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