Comments on: Kill Your Darlings–Send In The Man With The Gun http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2009/03/kill-your-darlings-send-in-the-man-with-the-gun/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Bird of Ill Repute Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maggie Stiefvater http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2009/03/kill-your-darlings-send-in-the-man-with-the-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-56060 Maggie Stiefvater Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:37:14 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=1321#comment-56060 Yes. YES. *YES* I have a writer friend who told me "I hate hurting my characters." We were online, so she couldn't see my mouth drop open and moths and birds and Batman fly in there, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Am I a bad person, Lilith, because I like breaking my characters so I can fix them? Or the other way around? I have to admit it . . . I love a scene that really tears a character apart, because how can we tell what he's made of unless he's in pieces? Yes. YES. *YES*

I have a writer friend who told me “I hate hurting my characters.” We were online, so she couldn’t see my mouth drop open and moths and birds and Batman fly in there, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Am I a bad person, Lilith, because I like breaking my characters so I can fix them? Or the other way around? I have to admit it . . . I love a scene that really tears a character apart, because how can we tell what he’s made of unless he’s in pieces?

]]> By: Jamal W. Hankins http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2009/03/kill-your-darlings-send-in-the-man-with-the-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-56058 Jamal W. Hankins Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:38:44 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=1321#comment-56058 I follow this theory as well. I put my characters through hell, and not just for the hell of it mind you. I believe in consequences, and I can't have my characters running around, getting themselves in a out of dangerous situations, without getting hurt, wounded, or killed. It just wouldn't be "believable. Like an 80's action flick where the bad guys have the worst aim in the world, and the good guy is a world champion marksman. I follow this theory as well. I put my characters through hell, and not just for the hell of it mind you. I believe in consequences, and I can’t have my characters running around, getting themselves in a out of dangerous situations, without getting hurt, wounded, or killed. It just wouldn’t be “believable. Like an 80′s action flick where the bad guys have the worst aim in the world, and the good guy is a world champion marksman.

]]> By: Laurel http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2009/03/kill-your-darlings-send-in-the-man-with-the-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-56057 Laurel Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:48:43 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=1321#comment-56057 Nice :) ..I wonder if, conversely, the character that *has* been dealt the man with the gun is shattered by kindness instead..? Nice :)

..I wonder if, conversely, the character that *has* been dealt the man with the gun is shattered by kindness instead..?

]]> By: Jennifer L http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2009/03/kill-your-darlings-send-in-the-man-with-the-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-56055 Jennifer L Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:32:58 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=1321#comment-56055 <i>I firmly believe one must mistreat one’s characters. Smack them around. Up the ante, dish out some injury. </i> I've always followed that theory. In the book I just finished writing, I had my main character get her guts ripped out by the zombie that used to be one of her best friends. It was fun. I firmly believe one must mistreat one’s characters. Smack them around. Up the ante, dish out some injury.

I’ve always followed that theory. In the book I just finished writing, I had my main character get her guts ripped out by the zombie that used to be one of her best friends. It was fun.

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