My entire opinion on this can be summed up as, "Bitch, PLEASE!"
Mostly, my rage is centred on the whole, "If you can't see that my writing is complex and thought-provoking and CHALLENGING to all you Plebeians, you can just STFU and find another author! One who ISN'T ALL THESE THINGS!" and the bit about not caring about characters who die.
Dammit, Laurell - the whole point in killing off a character is to provoke an emotional response! I don't know about any other writers in this comm, but I sure as hell want people to be UPSET by character death. It's meant to push the other characters into action and reaction.
I know I make a point of writing a death scene for all my characters. I want to know how it'd happen and what everyone's reaction would be. I've gotten quite a few surprising responses from characters and whole new plotlines open up that I'd probably have to fight every. fucking. inch to achieve if I let people live. I just hope I can pull off some of the moves I want to make with the right zest and punch that they require - because while the thought blows my mind, it's up to me as a writer to try and blow my reader's mind too - or at the very least, get them to empathise with what the other characters do.
So no, it's not that I don't care about my characters so that's why I kill them - it's totally the opposite. I care - a lot - and if killing some of them is what it takes to push the others where I need them to be, so be it!
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Mostly, my rage is centred on the whole, "If you can't see that my writing is complex and thought-provoking and CHALLENGING to all you Plebeians, you can just STFU and find another author! One who ISN'T ALL THESE THINGS!" and the bit about not caring about characters who die.
Dammit, Laurell - the whole point in killing off a character is to provoke an emotional response! I don't know about any other writers in this comm, but I sure as hell want people to be UPSET by character death. It's meant to push the other characters into action and reaction.
I know I make a point of writing a death scene for all my characters. I want to know how it'd happen and what everyone's reaction would be. I've gotten quite a few surprising responses from characters and whole new plotlines open up that I'd probably have to fight every. fucking. inch to achieve if I let people live. I just hope I can pull off some of the moves I want to make with the right zest and punch that they require - because while the thought blows my mind, it's up to me as a writer to try and blow my reader's mind too - or at the very least, get them to empathise with what the other characters do.
So no, it's not that I don't care about my characters so that's why I kill them - it's totally the opposite. I care - a lot - and if killing some of them is what it takes to push the others where I need them to be, so be it!