I can't remember who said that but taken in context he was actually referring to editing...I enjoy bastardizing things for fun so will give it a new spin as this very morning I allowed one of my character to die while I sat by and did nothing. I felt slightly bad as usual but I figure if someone is stupid enough to get eaten by a crocodile well that was their own fault. Of course one could counter with 'isn't their intellectual capabilties the result of your characterization and did you not put them in the spot in the first place and provide the beast?'. The answer is yes of course to all three points - but I tend to be a rather cruel god at times and in this case I really liked how I did it. Normally characters die in fantsy novels at the end in some dramatic way fighting evil - but this death was completly out of the blue and rather pointless. I'm not sure if any more will die but you never know - it's all about avoiding the cliche - or is it a cliche to avoid cliches now?
Being the third book I've already killed my main characters mother and father, his mentor was killed, a major character's mother killed herself, and a number of minor character have failed to heed the cry of head up...or perhaps the cry should have been duck...oh well semantics.
So...who here has the blood of their precious children on their hands? Being gods of our universe we could have prevented these deaths but for some reason we didn't and sacrificed them to feed our own ego's. Consider that you sick, sick people as you confess your heinous crimes on this post.
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62,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 09 15
Will book three end with your protagonists children going to Hogwarts?
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Paul Webber
Don’t settle for shampoo! Demand real poo!
98,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 09 18
Crap - how did you guess my cross over idea?
41,332 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 09 28
Wow, I haven't killed any main characters...or even any named characters yet...or ever!! Whoa, I've NEVER written a story which has offed someone!!
...well, I know what I have to do in NaNo2009 now. O_O
I did level a town with 3827 people in it? Gruesomely? Earthquake with lasers? Does that make me a brutal enough goddess?
98,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 09 39
@Geolojazz- Genocide does qualify you...remember you have the power to do whatever you want to these people, and quite frankly most of them deserve what they get. Really by killing them you are merely ending their natural life cycle and are helping them by setting their fictional spirits free to return to the great sea of ideas we all drink from so that someday they can be born again in another book with a brand new name.
57,310 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 13
Considering that the main character is a homicide detective there are going to be a lot of minor character deaths. Two of my main characters parents are already dead and both sets were murdered at some point in their life. Another main character has had a very close brush with death even though she didn't realize it at the time. Really my novel is focused around people being murdered so I can't escape it.
25,845 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 21
Hm... well I have 2 unnamed characters dead on the first page, and 8 more "off camera"... Also a comet coming to rain fiery death over a large urban area. My MCs will save some people, but I estimate several hundred thousand getting roasted. I'd say that's a pretty high body count really o.O Definitely higher than any other story I've written... Although the actual comet may not happen until another book...
62,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 46
I got you all beat. In mine a guy doing NaNo died, came back as a zombie and is trying to finish by 30th Nov but his fingers keep falling off.
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Paul Webber
Don’t settle for shampoo! Demand real poo!
27,360 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 12 03
One of my main characters commited suicide in the first 1700 words. Ha.
98,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 12 04
@Paul - Does this individual also work at Walmart? I think it's all the cheaply cursed shoddy products they import. They need a warning - 'Caution may cause death and subsequent states of undeadness. Keep out of reach of children.'
62,000 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 12 05
Yup, breathing in all the lead fumes from the paint on the products!
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Paul Webber
Don’t settle for shampoo! Demand real poo!
21,300 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 18 43
I have brutally killed and tortured 4 of my characters, one of them being Timmy.
----------To some I'm a dream,
to others,
A nightmare.
39,070 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 21 29
Last year I killed the main MAIN character of my book. At the very end. I killed almost all my characters. XD
----------Once upon a time, there was a girl named Alexis South. She was perfectly normal. Except for the voices in her head that told her to kill people. Sucks to be her. D=
54,528 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 07 49
@Silver- Except me. ^.^ I feel so loved.
I killed my main character's mother and little brother in the prologue this year. Last year.... Hmm. Last year I did the same... Coincidence? O.o
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22,652 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 01 06
I did kill a character within my first 900 words, but that was only because I decided he was disposable, and wanted my main antagonist to brutally kill someone merely to show off his evilness. I have trouble killing off my main characters though, even my big bads, I tend to get attached really easily.
I couldn't be like authors who randomly murder their important characters, or not so important characters, out of the blue because they feel like it. Looking at you, R.A. Salvatore. -eyes-
98,000 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 07 51
One of my main characters lost an eye last night...before he was one of the most handsome men around. I'm such a jeolous god, how dare he be prettier than I. :)
9,415 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2009 - 06 19
Quite a few characters will be killed in my story, though the main characters will survive this merciful goddess. However, there will angst, lots of angst to balance out the no death. Maybe I'm not so merciful afterall.
----------In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.