Yes, death is horrible. I've had my fair share of death in my real life. But I can also write about death and NOT FREAK THE FUCK OUT because you know what? As special as the characters are to me, and as much time and energy and emotion I've invested into them...
THEY ARE NOT REAL! THEY ARE NOT REAL! THEY ARE NOT REAL! Repeat that fifty thousand more times. Death in books makes me cry, yes, but at the end of the day, I know that I can always see them again because I can reread the books. If you REALLY didn't want to kill off the character, you wouldn't have killed them off. You know why? Because you are the WRITER.
Christ, I need to go have a drink. This just made me so angry and is offensive to me as a writer.
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Date: 2010-01-17 11:05 pm (UTC)Yes, death is horrible. I've had my fair share of death in my real life. But I can also write about death and NOT FREAK THE FUCK OUT because you know what? As special as the characters are to me, and as much time and energy and emotion I've invested into them...
THEY ARE NOT REAL! THEY ARE NOT REAL! THEY ARE NOT REAL! Repeat that fifty thousand more times. Death in books makes me cry, yes, but at the end of the day, I know that I can always see them again because I can reread the books. If you REALLY didn't want to kill off the character, you wouldn't have killed them off. You know why? Because you are the WRITER.
Christ, I need to go have a drink. This just made me so angry and is offensive to me as a writer.