Do you find you have a great story going, than suddenly without warning writer’s block stops you dead in your tracks? I have found that if you want to kill writer’s block, kill a character. The death of a character (one already in use or one you created just to kill) changes everything in the story, and gives you new challanges.
In my books, when in doubt, I create a new character, and than bring back my psycopathic serial killer (The Red Dragon) who is supposed to be in an aysulum but some how escaped, killed the new character and left the body all over The Manor. The result is Roderic gets to go off on one of his crazed “my house kills people” frenzies (I have so much fun writing those!), while everyone else racks their brains trying to figure out how the killer escaped, why did he kill this person, how did he get back in the asylum, and who the hell is the dead person anyways?
As I never know who the “new” character was, and the body is chopped up beyond recognision, and I don’t know why he did it, I therefor get to solve the mystery right along with the characters.
yep, killing a character always works for me, ever when I never “met” the character before.
~~EK
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jumpinjessflash // Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 1:05 pm |
Hello! I’ve been reading your blog on and off since you left me a comment a while ago. I love the writing tips and ideas you post, especially since I am hoping to get into create writing more deeply. I just wanted to thank you for your comment about by review! Being somewhat new to the blogosphere and writing publicly in general, it was great to get some feedback, and I’m glad you liked it
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