I had to kill a character during the revisions of my most recent novel. (My editor rightly pointed at that in this particular situation if everyone survived in this particular way, it wouldn't be believable--so I had to play a sort of fictional triage with my characters.) I kept hoping, when my editor received the revised manuscript, he'd tell me that I'd made a horrible mistake and must resurrect the character I'd killed, but no such luck. It is hard to kill characters off.
I also think it's harder to kill off one character you know and care about than to kill off millions of faceless/nameless characters you don't really know. (I mean, I didn't cry killing off millions of people before my novel ever began. That was way easier than killing off that one particular character I knew and cared about.)
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Date: 2008-02-18 04:30 am (UTC)I also think it's harder to kill off one character you know and care about than to kill off millions of faceless/nameless characters you don't really know. (I mean, I didn't cry killing off millions of people before my novel ever began. That was way easier than killing off that one particular character I knew and cared about.)