I killed my main character's "Love interest" yesterday. He was a whinny little thing for some one who is supposed to be a kcik butt vampire killing demon. I describe him as an Anakin reject. He kept going on about how vampires are all diseased rats. I couldn't stand it. I think he kept me from my novel for a day or two. I Had to Kill Him!!!!
Since killing him, I've made progress on my novel. I haven't done much today because I have 2 tests tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow while I'm out of school.
So, anyone else kill someone this week?
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Nov 5, 2009 - 15 32
Nope, but I brought someone back to life. Kind of.
I think I'm going to go for a tragic ending, so I'll let you know at the end. Muwahaha.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 15 32
Not yet, but soon my pretties!
Good luck with tests tomorrow.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 15 34
Isn't it amazing how just killing someone makes you feel tons better! Ah... to be a writer is great!!! (I so want a bumper sticker that says "Please continue to p*ss me off, I need someone to kill in my next novel). I have that piece of flair on myspace and I LOVE it! So true...
And, actually, my MMC had a body count of two vampires (he's a vampire himself) under his belt within the first five pages, then another vamp after another four or so pages. He's since calmed down (of course, not because he wanted to)...
And, sometimes it's just necessary to toss a dead body in the mix to get the plot jumped started.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 11
I had someone mauled and chewed to bits by diseased, rabid dogs!
i think i'm too thrilled about that....
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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 13
a whole bar full of people, in fact!
----------NaNo09 - Forsaken - Won
Screnzy09 - Darkside - Won
NaNo08 - Darkside - Won
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Nov 5, 2009 - 20 21
I had someone mauled by a werewolf and then her death plotted out by a main and minor character! Bwaha. It is fun. Too bad I'm not really killing her off.
----------If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
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Nov 5, 2009 - 20 58
I'm getting ready to kill my seven-months-pregnant surrogate . . . she'll be dead by tomorrow!
----------2004: Daniel In The Lion's Den (mystery/suspense)
2005: Two Women And A Girl: EGG, MAT, and MSG (mystery/suspense)
2007: Finding Emma Jane (fictionalized memoir)
2009: Foreplay (mystery/suspense)
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Nov 5, 2009 - 21 07
No immediate plans to kill anyone. But then again...
(Just how do you kill someone/something that is supposedly immortal?)
Grady
----------NaNoWriMo 2005/2007 Winner -- The Storm (WIP)
NaNoWriMo 2006 Winner -- Dragon Secrets (WIP)
Script Frenzy 2007 Winner -- The Choice
NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- The Shifter
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- The Lion's Roar
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Nov 5, 2009 - 22 25
Yep, I think I killed someone just today (well, I guess that would be yesterday, technically)! The character hadn't actually been shown. She was a major supporting character's mom. So, as you might imagine, this major supporting character is going through a lot of pain and devastation, which is having a significant effect on my other major supporting character and my MC.
I might mention that all of these characters are 12. Except maybe the girl whose mom died: I think she turned 13 a while ago, since this is in the middle of the school year. Either way, the point is that these characters are children, and the girl's mom died of a heart attack before her time.
Isn't it such a feeling when you kill someone? It's either wonderful or terrible, or sometimes both. All depends on who you kill.
Happy killing, all! :)
Lauren
----------NaNoWriMo 2009 - Rain [Young Adult Fiction] - 86,390 words and complete!
Aidan [Young Adult Fiction] - 83,049 words and complete!
Luna [Young Adult Fiction] - 45k and counting!
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Nov 6, 2009 - 01 44
I haven't killed anyone yet, but I'm getting to the point where I'd like to kill my FMC/Narrator because she's bugging the heck out of me.
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Nov 6, 2009 - 06 52
All immortals have a weak link...you just have to write one in.
One of the books I read had an identifying mark, something all immortals have but in different parts of the body. Once stuck in that place with a weapon from a specific ancient/dead culture, it will kill the immortal.
Of course, Highlander had heads hacked off.
Vampires have a stake to the heart (which is how I killed my demon).
Just be creative. Its your world!
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Nov 6, 2009 - 07 01
I've got a body count in my first chapter alone that numbers between 1000 and 3000. 6 pilots in the squadron (7 counting the one that's already dead in the same battle I started the novel in the middle of) die out of frame- mentioned but never shown- and I had a battleship blow up, taking all hands with it, and that'll be a figure somewhere between 1000 & 3000, I haven't decided where yet.
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
18,008 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 08 51
(Just how do you kill someone/something that is supposedly immortal?)
Grady
I can go completely geek and say that Glory (on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) was an immortal God. When she was banished from her dimension, she was forced to share a body with a boy named Ben to "contain" her. She becomes able to gain control over Ben, so she can switch between being Ben and being Glory. Ben, being human, is a mortal so he's killable. They end up killing Ben, and since Glory is inside him, she's killed, too. Don't know if that helps, but that's the only Immortal I know of that has died. (That and The Beast on Angel that could only be killed with a weapon made of its own body armor.)
Yes, my knowledge of the supernatural is pretty much contained by Buffy and Angel. Haha.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
----------If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
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Nov 6, 2009 - 09 12
I have much the same issue going on. I had my main POV character trampled and gored and mauled and basically smeared into the pavement by an enraged rhinoceros god (named Nano), but it just didn't take, much to the character's chagrin. He's still alive. And now he's got a lovely new pair of Nano-hide boots ....
Ms_Tamany
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Nov 6, 2009 - 09 41
Here is a question:
The main character in story I am writing (Treasure's Guardian), is going to lose his mortal body in order to attain eternal life. Basically he is going to transform into a stone and crystal golem so that he can guard a dragon's hoard, clutch and hatchlings, not to mention performing a few other tasks. So is this killing my character or just his mortal body?
----------Try anything once, twice if you like it, and never stop if you love it
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Nov 6, 2009 - 10 09
The main character in story I am writing (Treasure's Guardian), is going to lose his mortal body in order to attain eternal life. Basically he is going to transform into a stone and crystal golem so that he can guard a dragon's hoard, clutch and hatchlings, not to mention performing a few other tasks. So is this killing my character or just his mortal body?
Sounds like just his body to me. the mortal flesh is gone, but the soul/spirtit of the character continues, so the character 'lives'.
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
5,425 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 10 20
Hmmm. I'd say it would count as killing him off, *IF* he passes through any kind of 'dead/dormant/not there' state between his mortal and immortal existences. But if he simply changes from flesh and bone to crystal and stone, without losing consciousness in any way, then I'd say that he did not die, and you can't say you killed him.
Of course, if you WANT to actually kill him off during the process, what about having to transfer his consciousness from his mortal body over to his new golem body, rather than transforming his mortal body into a golem?
Ms_Tamany
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Ms_Tamany
tammy@purple-platypus.com
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Nov 6, 2009 - 12 51
The main character in story I am writing (Treasure's Guardian), is going to lose his mortal body in order to attain eternal life. Basically he is going to transform into a stone and crystal golem so that he can guard a dragon's hoard, clutch and hatchlings, not to mention performing a few other tasks. So is this killing my character or just his mortal body?
Sounds like just his body to me. the mortal flesh is gone, but the soul/spirtit of the character continues, so the character 'lives'.
I see that, but would that in some way or form be killing off the character?
Try anything once, twice if you like it, and never stop if you love it
----------Try anything once, twice if you like it, and never stop if you love it
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Nov 6, 2009 - 12 56
Hmmm. I'd say it would count as killing him off, *IF* he passes through any kind of 'dead/dormant/not there' state between his mortal and immortal existences. But if he simply changes from flesh and bone to crystal and stone, without losing consciousness in any way, then I'd say that he did not die, and you can't say you killed him.
Of course, if you WANT to actually kill him off during the process, what about having to transfer his consciousness from his mortal body over to his new golem body, rather than transforming his mortal body into a golem?
Ms_Tamany
I see that, but would that in some way or form be killing off the character? You see, he is going to aware of the process of his body being replaced with the new one. In a sense, his soul will sorta hover over his body as it transforms into the new body which will be a granite and crystal dragon (7' tall at the shoulders and 30' long from nose to tail tip)
----------Try anything once, twice if you like it, and never stop if you love it
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Nov 6, 2009 - 16 22
Yes, my knowledge of the supernatural is pretty much contained by Buffy and Angel. Haha.
you and me both
----------NaNo09 - Forsaken - Won
Screnzy09 - Darkside - Won
NaNo08 - Darkside - Won
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Nov 7, 2009 - 01 05
I killed my main character. Briefly. Oh, how I love Highlander, where you can kill off even the plot-essential characters when they start to annoy you.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 01 55
I've killed several people, already, including the main character. But he doesn't really count, since he does live in multiple times/dimensions at once. If he dies in one, he's still alive in others. He has a "core" lifetime/place, and all the other existences are "filaments," attached to the core, like strands of hair stretched across time and space. For him to truly die, as we know death, I'd have to kill him in the core lifetime. That would simultaneously kill all his filament bodies. But even then he's STILL not really dead, because he is an eternal spirit, and will just go on to find himself another core from which to extend his filament lives.
----------Kai Starr
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Nov 7, 2009 - 08 50
My story being a ghost story, killing someone would prove redundant.
----------$5 to the first person that guesses the origin of my user name.
Year two and no one has gotten it... here's a hint: properly formatted it should read: God/Pants-.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 15 22
I killed a chambermaid and left her sprawled at the foot of my main character's bed for him to find, just as soon as he wakes up from that wee alcoholic blackout. I am cruel, cruel, cruel...
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