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[broker]

Thoughts on killing off your characters?

It's a tricky subject. When readers respond strongly in response to a characters death, in a sense, it's a good thing. It proves that your writing is good enough to captivate a reader and develop a likable character.

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, that means they'll be upset D: maybe that character is what made them smile, is who they looked forward to. Even if you don't like the character you never know with the audience! Take that from someone who has a sister that happens to fall in love with each character in our tv shows that happen to die off eventually.

One pattern I've found when reading books is that authors usually make it a point to kill the character off before we get to know him, or barely get it know him. Or one of those obscure characters that you really don't know much about. Or just a character that's been on the verge of dying, and finally dies off.

So in the end, how do I feel about killing off my characters? Indifferent if not reluctant about it. I like to give readers a scare, but a tragedy, not so much. D;

[TheSongOfTheStars]

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Do you guys think that how and what you played with when you where you affects how you write?

I just noticed that when I was little and still played with stuffed animals that I always made them talk and that there was only about one or two people. Its pretty much the same with wha I'm writing nowadays

[Hollow Feather]

Previous Username: Inky Wolf
New Username: Hollow Feather
What you'd like to be called now: Hollow, Inky, Lost

[Falls]

Oh gooosh nanowrimo is coming up im going to die my plot is so vague.

Also, anyone willing to critique poetry? im going to a poetry slam but I want to make sure my poem works and flows well.

This is a poem told by age.
1. I have lived only 365 days

But I have spent almost every one of them

Already acquainted with you.


2.We are playmates.

We learn to count together-
1, 2,


3. You speak before me.

You are forming sentences

While my mouth is still struggling around the curves of my name.


4. We understand what it means to be friends-

We are no longer incoherent entities

Just existing within the same vicinity.


5. Best friends.

I know not from where I learn the term

But by now it is as familiar to me as your name.


6. There are three of us now,

Our own little group.

But you and me,

We came first,

And we agree 

That’s the way it should always be.


7.We walk through the woods behind your house.

I know to you

This is familiar terrain-

But to me this is an endless landscape.

This is my first memory of adventure-

Playing follow the leader

Through the forest.

To me, 

You are Peter Pan,

And I am the embodiment of every lost boy-

Just walking in your footsteps,

In your shadow-

But glad to be there.


8. I notice you are sensitive about your weight

But I don’t know why.

I always hated how small I was-

How thin.

How frail.

How weak.

But you were big,

And strong-

And I envied that about you. 

You were someone to look up to.


9. You tell me you are fine.

You tell me you are always fine.

I believe you back then.


10. Past troubles seem forgotten.

You are young and free

And once again,

Always with me. 


11. Best friends.

This is more than a label to me-

It is sacred. 

I won’t let anyone else call me this.

If they do I will correct them without tact or hesitation.


12. We are never without each other.

Dumb pictures,

Silly pictures, 

Made up games.

Sitting on the curb near your house,

Chugging Sprite at midnight.

We have three different necklaces.

Each one comes in a pair and says,

“Best friends”.


13. I start school.

I no longer learn with you,

But it’s okay,

I say,

We will still be together.

Still best friends.


14. We’ve drifted apart.

I don’t really see you anymore.

Don’t really have time.

I convince myself 

That my absence is temporary.

I convince myself 

That I will be there when it matters.

As if there could be a time where it did not matter.


15. I no longer doodle on your arm in sharpie.

Unbeknowest to me

As the ink fades

And I’m not there to replace it

You take it upon yourself to retrace it.

Only you do not use a pen.

As the drawings fades

You filled the spaces

With red.

And the slits spelled out 
“Best Friends”.

Everything seems to flow just right to me. I like the organization using numbers and I like the parallelism with the sharpie and the phrase "Best Friends". It's great for a slam and I reallly like it. =)

[Aliria]

I at some point had a really cool idea for a world to write a story in, but can't think of a plot. Any ideas?

Humanity is at the point where there are colonies on other planets, but none yet outside the solar system (although a colony ship left for Alpha Centauri a few years ago), and there is no faster-than-light travel yet. People spend years in cryogenic sleep traveling between planets. The main character lives on York IV, a floating city on Jupiter. No aliens have been discovered yet.

I'm thinking I want to do something including the main character's younger sister. Also, no aliens. That's overdone and usually way too unrealistic.

[wolfrabbits]

Previous Username: ~*Autumn Breeze*~
New Username: Sᴜᴘᴇʀɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ
What you'd like to be called now: Autumn, Owl, North, Sᴜᴘᴇʀɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ

[*~.Imagination.~*]

Everything seems to flow just right to me. I like the organization using numbers and I like the parallelism with the sharpie and the phrase "Best Friends". It's great for a slam and I reallly like it. =)

aw cx thank you for feedback. I'm just so nervous about actually performing it ;-;

also, what's everyone doing for nanowrimo? im doing a partnered piece this year, and we're both really busy so we're aiming low with 30K between the two of us, so im hoping it pans out.

[Murdoc Niccals]

also, what's everyone doing for nanowrimo? im doing a partnered piece this year, and we're both really busy so we're aiming low with 30K between the two of us, so im hoping it pans out.

I'm probably gonna expand on lore in my setting regarding time travel. Hoping to maybe get 10k. I've never written that much before.

[iWonder]

Everything seems to flow just right to me. I like the organization using numbers and I like the parallelism with the sharpie and the phrase "Best Friends". It's great for a slam and I reallly like it. =)

aw cx thank you for feedback. I'm just so nervous about actually performing it ;-;

also, what's everyone doing for nanowrimo? im doing a partnered piece this year, and we're both really busy so we're aiming low with 30K between the two of us, so im hoping it pans out.

I am writing either a backstory for a few characters, or continuing to write my other book.

[Solar Flare]

also, what's everyone doing for nanowrimo? im doing a partnered piece this year, and we're both really busy so we're aiming low with 30K between the two of us, so im hoping it pans out.

I'm going to try to reach the goal with a creepy-styled story. Goodness knows, though, that I'm lucky if I ever reach 1,000 words at all, since that seems to be the normal amount before I wind up tiring of the story. Any advice on finishing these?