❛ the lazy writers ❜

[Silver Pandorica]

I never get far enough into my stories to torture my characters...

[katomorakwarrior]

Couple years ago I was every character's worst nightmare for a writer. . .

Kill parents. . .
Kill friends. . .
Threaten little siblings and psuedo-little siblings. . .
Leave characters half dead in a minimum of five separate sections of the story. . .

These days I try really hard to tone it down.
Top ways of doing so:
Not giving them parents to kill
Not giving them friends to kill
Not giving them siblings to kill
...
using charicidal self-control on the last one. . .
limited to 10 minor injuries (cuts, bruises, temporary loss of sight, etc.)
and
3 bad injuries (broken bones, permanent loss of sight [can be caused by but not limited to staring at bright lights, brain damage and other ocular-related head damage], minor cerebral contusion, suffucation, etc)
and
1 near fatal injury

as you may see, I have this down to a science. . . I tried writing an innocent romance once in my life. They both ended up dead. . . so. . . yeah. . .

I understand the feeling.

[TheSongOfTheStars]

Heh, I am not nice to my characters either.
Kill parents, kill adoptive parents, constant threat to whatever siblings they might have, constant doubt and distortion of their innermost morals. Severe injuries.
Ect

[Silver Pandorica]

It all sounds like the Series of Unfortunate Events. Man, those kids were tortured in every book...all their relatives got killed off...

[. . .]

I'm writing this one novel and oh my...I torture the main character so much
First her father dies when she's like 10
Then her mother dies of illness
The person that, tbh, she wanted to marry ends up marrying someone else
And then she dies of a broken heart.
I love happy endings.

[katomorakwarrior]

Don't we all?

[NopesaurusRexx]

All of my professors say when you get stuck, torture your characters.

[Silver Pandorica]

The hardest part for me is getting started. I have so many ideas, but no idea how to start it off! XD

[Tsar]

The hardest part for me is getting started. I have so many ideas, but no idea how to start it off! XD

My whole life summed up in two short sentences.

[TheSongOfTheStars]

heh, I keep on changing and get tired of trying to rewrite.