WIP Challenge Check-in -- Day 1

[linaewen]

It's September 1st -- time for a fresh start and a new month of achieving our writing goals!

How did you spend the first day of this new month?

• writing (want to share a word count?)
• planning (brainstorming, researching, outlining)
• editing
• posting
• taking a break
• reading someone else's writing
• dealing with non-writing things on your To Do List

Discussion question for the day:

 

Have you ever killed off a major character in one of your stories?  If so, was it planned from the beginning?  Something unplanned but that you realized would be a good idea at some point?  How did your readers deal with that character's death?  Was it obvious to them or unexpected?

P.S. Sorry for being late with this check in post.  I wanted to do it earlier in the day, but it turned out to be one of the worst "One of Those Days" I've had in awhile -- and I've had plenty!  ;-)

Comments

[linaewen]

No writing happened yesterday, alas! I spent the day wrestling with my To Do list and there was no time left for any of my tales.

I have caused a dead main character in canon to be not dead in a number of my stories -- but I have never killed off any of my main character. I did do so, however, to one of my OC's. I was quite fond of him and he was a lot of fun to write, and made the story interesting, but as I was writing along, I realized that the tale was going to be too unrealistic if nobody ever died as a result of all the danger the characters were getting into. So I did a private poll among my OC's and realized how excellent the story would be if this particular guy was the one to go. So I did it. It was an unhappy time for both the writer and the readers, but it made for great drama and gave the main character a chance to be appropriately emo. ;-)