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30DoW: Day 24
Aug. 24th, 2010 12:24 pm24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
I'll do it; I have done it, it's not like you should be so attached to a character that you'll avoid their death at all costs.
Which isn't to say that you should be willing to throw anyone and everyone in front of a firing squad. Some characters you don't want to kill off, not just because it might make sense to have them dead but because it comes off as cheap if people start dropping right and left.
It's hard to kill off MCs, because they're the MCs, they're who are driving the story forward. Maybe they can croak at the end, but unless you have enough emotion invested in the side characters it's rare to see them go in the middle of a run.
So, yes, I'm willing but it's less if the plot demands it and more of if it feels right for the story.
Um, interesting, interesting... alrighty, I got one. Way back in the day, I had a paranormal highschool story, Innocence Lost, which had a lot of strange shit going down. Cheerleader-feminist cults, teachers who under stress talks only about their cats, the quiet shy student nobody notices who might also possibly be a serial killer, you know, normal stuff. And then the lockers.
Typically it more of new kid/freshman thing, you'd get lockers that would change answers on homework, assignments would vanish; and those are the weak ones. One will fill itself with pudding, anothers gives you your school books back in a different language. And then there's that one persistant rumor that at least one student has disappeared after being shoved into his locker...
I'll do it; I have done it, it's not like you should be so attached to a character that you'll avoid their death at all costs.
Which isn't to say that you should be willing to throw anyone and everyone in front of a firing squad. Some characters you don't want to kill off, not just because it might make sense to have them dead but because it comes off as cheap if people start dropping right and left.
It's hard to kill off MCs, because they're the MCs, they're who are driving the story forward. Maybe they can croak at the end, but unless you have enough emotion invested in the side characters it's rare to see them go in the middle of a run.
So, yes, I'm willing but it's less if the plot demands it and more of if it feels right for the story.
Um, interesting, interesting... alrighty, I got one. Way back in the day, I had a paranormal highschool story, Innocence Lost, which had a lot of strange shit going down. Cheerleader-feminist cults, teachers who under stress talks only about their cats, the quiet shy student nobody notices who might also possibly be a serial killer, you know, normal stuff. And then the lockers.
Typically it more of new kid/freshman thing, you'd get lockers that would change answers on homework, assignments would vanish; and those are the weak ones. One will fill itself with pudding, anothers gives you your school books back in a different language. And then there's that one persistant rumor that at least one student has disappeared after being shoved into his locker...