Do writers go to a special hell where all of their poor characters they slaughter, torture, rend, break, and crush physically, financially, and emotionally so they can can get a better review, await them to meet out their own versions of justice?
The things I have done to my characters!
Posted by TruHero (Member # 1766) on :
If that is true, I am doomed! "Mr. Beelzebub, I'll need the suit-o-flame in a tall, please!"
Posted by KatFeete (Member # 2161) on :
I've never really been able to get into this kind of thing. That and "What would your characters say to you if they met you walking down the street?", which seems to a a perennial writer's favorite.
I never feel like I'm doing things to my characters. I never feel like I'm in the story at all. I'm telling the story. It's already happened. I just have to find the words and events that fit the story I already know.
Posted by ChrisOwens (Member # 1955) on :
Unless it's based on a true story, in which you are the real-life antagonist, than remember it's all make believe...
Oh... excuse me... I'm getting a call from a Mr. Scott Landon....
Posted by EricJamesStone (Member # 1681) on :
I've found an easy solution to this problem: send my characters to Heaven when they die. If I end up in Hell, they won't be there to torture me, and if I go to Heaven, they won't be allowed to.
Posted by Lord Darkstorm (Member # 1610) on :
I find the hardest part of writing is torturing my characters. I tend to like them and don't want to cause them pain. Of course, without the pain and suffering...the stories can be boring.
Anyways, maybe they will all thank you if they one day find themselves on a bookshelf somewhere.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 970) on :
I find the exact opposite to be true for me. I'm always coming up with new and usually gruesome ways to torture my characters, and have to constantly ask myself if it'll advance the plot or not. If it doesn't, I throw it in a torture file, to save for another story.
Ni!
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
quote:Do writers go to a special hell where all of their poor characters they slaughter, torture, rend, break, and crush physically, financially, and emotionally so they can can get a better review, await them to meet out their own versions of justice?
Sounds like a story you should write!
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
In a word, yes.
But there is a special exemption for art based on the artist's personal suffering.
Also, consider that the poor characters awaiting you in hell to deal out their own versions of justice will be limited by the fact that they exist only in your imagination, along with the crimes you've commited against them. Actual people that you have actually wronged are a much bigger concern in hell (though your victims don't actually do anything themselves).
