*cry*

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

It's hard to kill someone you love. Even when they're a character in one of your novels.

The first (and prior to that) murders in the serial killer story I'm doing for NaNo, only the people in the story care about. I didn't much. This one I like so much. I hated writing his murder. But I just now killed him.

(x-posted to kalima62)

Comments

[hapaxlegoma.livejournal.com]

Hey, I nearly cried when I killed off my MMC last year. Even though he was extremely old and died peacefully of something non-painful. I damn near chickened out, except that then I'd have kind of lost the entire point of the novel, so, y'know.

[brillaint.livejournal.com]

icon. ♥

[pageless.livejournal.com]

aww. i'm a mean old lady, who thrives upon the repeated deaths of my characters (they're all AU versions of themselves, figure that out) and i like seeing what possible ways i can kill them off. ^_^;;;

i only have some trouble with it if they're kids... but then i get over it, and torture them too. it's a damned good thing i just put these sort of emotions into my stories, and not the real world. i'd be entirely too scary of a mass murderer ^_^;;;;

[liz-ensley.livejournal.com]

I did that to one of my characters last year, and then she proceeded to tell me her entire life's story, preceding her murder, which kind of interfered with my NaNo as it progressed. That's why I switched back to something that I know has already surpassed that point. All I need is to get th ewords out. Somehow. T_T

[telscha.livejournal.com]

You should have seen me when i killed off the DOG in one of my novels. I cried buckets. Hubby was like "Well change the story if it is upsetting you that much"
Me: "I can't. The dog gave its life to save its owner and i can't kill her off."
Hubby: Shakes head in despair. "Then get over it!"

[power-c.livejournal.com]

My whole saga (because I plan on doing at least one more after this one) is a fanfic that's about a movie where everyone dies at the end in a mass suicide +1 accidental murder, so I'm trying to build up to that moment. It's very hard, because I've become so attached to the characters now that part of me wants really badly to take the chickenshit route and AU the stories and make everyone live happily ever after, but the rest of me knows that that would be foolish.

[stormofzen.livejournal.com]

I ended up quitting my NaNoWriYe project two years ago because I couldn't bring myself to killing my main character, so I feel for you.

I got myself around the problem this WriMo by doing the death scene and funeral as my very first writing section, to avoid becoming too attached to the character this time around.

[seert.livejournal.com]

I'm having a similar problem, except my MC is only being injured/threatened with injury and not actually killed. My problem is that she's just a kid and I don't want to put her through anything too scarring, but the "bad guys" want to punish her in some way that will make an impression.

My husband (who is much better with kind of thing) suggested just threatening her with injury, to the point that she actually thinks they're going to go through with it until the last minute, when it all turns out to be a scare tactic. I'm probably going to go with that, but the scene is coming up and I'm stalling because I'm just not sure whether I'm comfortable with it or not.

[shannon-zhang.livejournal.com]

I kill my characters off with a certain relish...my best scenes are death scenes. After I write it though, when I write the other characters' grief, my heart just clenches and I can hardly write for the next few days. I plan on killing off a central character...my favorite to write to. It will be splendid. But it will be hard to write after.

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm doing the after now ... it's almost as bad as the killing. He's a very likable character.