Why I hate playing god…

[Gabriele Campbell]

I can’t say I like torturing or killing my characters, but I don’t have problems doing it if the story requires it. And I can be almost as ruthless as GRRM.

[tiakall]

I don’t like killing them…if you kill them, you can’t make them wish they were dead!

[JuneDrexler]

If I’m writing a good story, I need to, at some level, believe these people are real. Of course, I don’t mean that I literally think they are real somewhere. But, I have to emotionally connect with them, and for that they have to be real inside me. If they’re real inside me, I’m going to be conflicted about killing them. So, for me, when it’s hard to kill them I assume I’m doing something right.

–June

[cherylp]

The more time I spend with a character, the more I hate to kill them off. I think the amount of time you/your reader spends with a character equals how tragic the death feels.

Kind of an equation: (Time(C) + Detail(C)) * Death(C) = AmtOfTrauma (C is Character)

[astropolis]

If they’ve got to go they’ve got to go. It’s that simple.

However when I splatted Alan Cook in RftS I did give him an operatic death that took three chapters with Jane trying to save him.

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