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[Silverhart]

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

No, not at all. It honestly annoys me when authors kill off my favorite characters. I never kill off a character needlessly, even side characters. The way I figure is if I have no one in a story ever die, it'll have more impact when a character does die. Look at Disney. Why did the death of Bambi's mother and Simba's father have such an impact? It's because they're surrounded by vibrancy and life and joy. The deaths come out of nowhere, catching the audience unaware, shaking them up. In the book 'Bambi', several characters are killed quite gruesomely, but none of the deaths have the same impact as the single movie death. If you kill off a lot of characters, even side characters, the reader gets desensitized to it. If that's what you're aiming for, I guess that's fine, but for me I'd rather have one meaningful death, then a hundred that do nothing for the story.

Also, as a reader, it just gets me angry when the author kills off characters needlessly. I feel like the author is just playing with my emotions. It's like they're poking me saying "Hey. Feel this." With some authors, it comes off as downright lazy. Like the only way they can make you care about the character is by giving them a tragic death scene.

It does work in some stories, especially ones with a lot of characters, but like I said, personally, it just annoys me. It doesn't always mean I enjoy the rest of the story any less though.

But I'll keep my "happy" stories, thank you. ^^ I don't ever want to see a favorite personal character of mine die. Life's already depressing enough. If they ever did it would be for a specific purpose. So they're pretty much stuck as my puppets forever and ever. They will never escape! Mwhahaha!

As for 'going to the dark side', most of my stories aren't really that black-and-white. Well, maybe they are, but I never really think of it that way. But I do love reading about characters like that. They're some of the best!

Wow. That was kind of a long rant, wasn't it?

[SilverBlade]

@Silverhart
I couldn't agree more with you. Yes, I know that at some point in my story I will have to kill some characters to remain realistic.
But needless deaths piss me off. If you love your characters, why killing them when there's no reason for it? Like Mokingjay. I felt like Collins just got tired of writing towards the end and just started to kill off people to cover that.
I like books that make me feel stuff. Like Harry Potter. Yes, I cried and felt terrible in the last book. But still, those were some sucrifices that had to be done. It was a war. Some people had to die.
Kill for a cause.

[Dylan Klebold]

can anyone possibly critique my fanfic so far please? C:

The doors to the throne room creaked open with a roar. The golden robot's head slowly rose as the room illuminated from the golden floor.

"Your highness, another prisoner." a dungeonhand said, pushing the man in handcuffs forward.

The golden robot's feet touched the ground with a metallic clang as he walked to the prisoner; who was in rags.

"You have committed one too many crimes in my kingdom." the golden robot said, pacing in front of the prisoner. His nylon rubber hands ran over the metal of the handcuffs.

"You have it all wrong, your highness! See, I never did any of these things, I swear!" the prisoner pleaded, as the golden robot walked back to his throne of gold.

The robot's robes dragged across the ground as he made his way up the steps. After a minute or so of silence, the golden robot's head bobbed up and down.

"Take him away." he said, as the dungeonhand took the prisoner and ushered him into the next room.

"No, please, you have it all wrong!" the prisoner screeched and kicked, being shut into the room before there was a sharp riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip echoing the golden room.

A smile lit up on the golden robot's face. "What do you think about your humans now, Thomas?"

The light poured into the room through the drapes as morning took the two sleeping robots out of sleep mode. The silver one, the one with a narrow visor and small crown, walked over to the gold robot and assisted him up.

"Good morning, Guy. Time to get up." the silver robot said, as Guy reluctantly got up.

"Thomas! It's your day to judge the prisoners!" Guy hissed, as he opened the closet, revealing two capes: one long golden one, and a shorter silver one. Guy grabbed the golden one and threw it on his back.

"Right, right." Thomas teased, grabbing the silver robe and heading out the door and into the hallway that had gold and silver decorations everywhere. The long walk to the throne was eerily quiet, for Thomas and Guy usually had talked about the previous day.

The throne room's doors were swung open, revealing two people, two humans, polishing the silver and gold accents of the thrones. With a wave of Thomas's hand, the two were dismissed. Guy walked to his throne and sat down. Thomas did the same, and there was a moment of silence before Guy's fingers snapped.

"One flash drive, grapes.exe s'il vous plait! Now!" he hissed, as one person ran off into one of the doors.

"Guy, you got to think a-"

"Who cares about the humans? Do they really have any purpose here?" Guy hissed, as the person arrived, holding a purple flash drive.

Thomas looked at Guy, a question mark appearing on his black monitor. "Guy! How dare you say that about our inhabitants?! You know they look up to us like we are their gods!" he hissed, as Guy plugged in the USB drive into a port on the left side of his neck.

A bunch of grapes showed up on Guy's visor. "So what? They're all going to die anyway." he said, rolling his head towards Thomas, who sat to the right of him.

"SO WHAT?! Really? Damn, Guy, some days I wished I ruled this kingdom alone. But you are the one-" Thomas said, as the doors burst open, revealing a worn out messenger.

Guy gave the grape-colored USB stick to the assistant, who then took it away. He sat up in his chair, as the grapes faded off of the monitor. Thomas's monitor faded to black as well. "What is it?" Guy asked, raising his head.

"C-c-come outside. You need to see this." the messenger said, as both Thomas and Guy stood up in unison. The messenger led the two overlords to a field, where a farmer and his family laid dead on the field.

"Told you, Thomas. These fleshy humans don't last long." Guy said, being elbowed by Thomas.

"Shush." Thomas hissed, as the messenger started to talk.

"There was a black shadow... It looked like a human with the head of a mouse. But we didn't dare come close to it. The shadow had two large cats behind him; one was grey and one was a black and white tuxedo. Both female, I predict. But that mouse man can kill. That's why I came for you, to ask for heightened defenses." he said, looking into the woods.

"Deadmau5. Gotta be him." Guy said, under his breath.

see the full thing here

I added to it last night.

[SilverBlade]

Hey guys~
I was wondering. When writing a book; is it bad to write seperate scenes depending on your mood instead of writing the scenes continuously(following the plot)? Because I don't know if it's good to just.. follow your inspiration. Maybe you will lose track of your story or lose interest in it because you are bored to go back and write everything in-between until you reach the new scene you liked so much.
Or maybe it's good, because you write better scenes if they fit your mood.
I don't know.. what do you guys think? c:

[Schuyler]

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

No, not at all. It honestly annoys me when authors kill off my favorite characters. I never kill off a character needlessly, even side characters. The way I figure is if I have no one in a story ever die, it'll have more impact when a character does die. Look at Disney. Why did the death of Bambi's mother and Simba's father have such an impact? It's because they're surrounded by vibrancy and life and joy. The deaths come out of nowhere, catching the audience unaware, shaking them up. In the book 'Bambi', several characters are killed quite gruesomely, but none of the deaths have the same impact as the single movie death. If you kill off a lot of characters, even side characters, the reader gets desensitized to it. If that's what you're aiming for, I guess that's fine, but for me I'd rather have one meaningful death, then a hundred that do nothing for the story.

Also, as a reader, it just gets me angry when the author kills off characters needlessly. I feel like the author is just playing with my emotions. It's like they're poking me saying "Hey. Feel this." With some authors, it comes off as downright lazy. Like the only way they can make you care about the character is by giving them a tragic death scene.

It does work in some stories, especially ones with a lot of characters, but like I said, personally, it just annoys me. It doesn't always mean I enjoy the rest of the story any less though.

But I'll keep my "happy" stories, thank you. ^^ I don't ever want to see a favorite personal character of mine die. Life's already depressing enough. If they ever did it would be for a specific purpose. So they're pretty much stuck as my puppets forever and ever. They will never escape! Mwhahaha!

As for 'going to the dark side', most of my stories aren't really that black-and-white. Well, maybe they are, but I never really think of it that way. But I do love reading about characters like that. They're some of the best!

Wow. That was kind of a long rant, wasn't it?

I think that's a good point you make there. Hey, forget the reader, I tend to get really attached to my chracters as I write, even the "bad" ones, and so while I almost always kill at least some of them, I try to make the deaths mean something because I wouldn't be able to bear them otherwise.

As for the "good to evil" switch, I agree that characters aren't always so one-demensional. But I do enjoy reading about characters who change sides, whether it's a good character turning evil or the other way around.

[Kaerie]

Hey guys~
I was wondering. When writing a book; is it bad to write seperate scenes depending on your mood instead of writing the scenes continuously(following the plot)? Because I don't know if it's good to just.. follow your inspiration. Maybe you will lose track of your story or lose interest in it because you are bored to go back and write everything in-between until you reach the new scene you liked so much.
Or maybe it's good, because you write better scenes if they fit your mood.
I don't know.. what do you guys think? c:

In the first draft it's fine to jump around to whatever scene you're interested in and go back later to string the story together. Basically, so long as you're writing (and preferably sticking to the same story) you're doing it right :3

[scoopyfrog]

Hey guys~
I was wondering. When writing a book; is it bad to write seperate scenes depending on your mood instead of writing the scenes continuously(following the plot)? Because I don't know if it's good to just.. follow your inspiration. Maybe you will lose track of your story or lose interest in it because you are bored to go back and write everything in-between until you reach the new scene you liked so much.
Or maybe it's good, because you write better scenes if they fit your mood.
I don't know.. what do you guys think? c:

In the first draft it's fine to jump around to whatever scene you're interested in and go back later to string the story together. Basically, so long as you're writing (and preferably sticking to the same story) you're doing it right :3

Don't worry, I do that all the time. It actually helps bring the story together more, because I'm able to connect things to things that aren't seen for several chapters, giving it another layer of excitement. It's perfectly fine to do.

[SilverBlade]

In the first draft it's fine to jump around to whatever scene you're interested in and go back later to string the story together. Basically, so long as you're writing (and preferably sticking to the same story) you're doing it right :3

Don't worry, I do that all the time. It actually helps bring the story together more, because I'm able to connect things to things that aren't seen for several chapters, giving it another layer of excitement. It's perfectly fine to do.

Good to hear; thanks for your help. :3

[Schuyler]

Hey guys~
I was wondering. When writing a book; is it bad to write seperate scenes depending on your mood instead of writing the scenes continuously(following the plot)? Because I don't know if it's good to just.. follow your inspiration. Maybe you will lose track of your story or lose interest in it because you are bored to go back and write everything in-between until you reach the new scene you liked so much.
Or maybe it's good, because you write better scenes if they fit your mood.
I don't know.. what do you guys think? c:

The book I'm writing at the moment, first I wrote about half of the first chapter, then I wrote the beginning of the epilogue, then I wrote most of the third chapter, and now I'm alternating between writing a much later scene and the rest of Chapter One. c: You could also say I did two other scenes ahead of time as well, since I wrote them individually as short stories and I'm planning to incorporate them into the larger work.

I find writing scenes as I think of them, rather than in the order they actually happen, helps me to work out where I want the story to end up. It also makes it easier to write the parts in between that I haven't quite worked out yet because by solidifying what happens before and after, I start to see ways to connect them I might never have thought of otherwise. I have writer's block issues pretty often, too, so working on a later scene when I'm not sure how to continue from the current point in the story keeps me working instead of staring at a blank sheet of paper, and it can help me find inspiration for the parts I wasn't sure about before.

Now, should you write that way? Only you can answer that. What works especially well for one person is not always best for someone else; every writer is different. But if writing things out of order seems to suit your style, go for it! There is no "wrong" way to write, as long as the end product is something you can be proud of.

[Detail.]

Gah, now I'm writing 3 books at one time. I don't get confused, by put it's delaying my writing in Faltering Flight.

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

After reading your opinions, now I see something. Yes, I don't just like characters to die out of the blue, I like it to happen within reason. I do get attached to my baddies and I get upset when they get killed off so needlessly. But in the end, someone's gotta die.