I'm trying to catch up on this morning's posts -- didn't make them because the T-commute took two hours (bikeride: 45 minutes), I waited for an hour outside my apartment for the keys, went to groceries for two hours even when I didn't need to do groceries and many more ridiculous things that happened. So. Let's. Get. On!
It would be fun to kill all of my characters in interesting and strange ways. And multiple times. Just for the fun of it. Of course it would be non-canon, all practice-fiction, it would be cool to write like a dozen ways to kill a character I've worked with for years.
When a story's not going the way you want it to, and you're not feeling not so good about where it's headed -- which happens to me all the time it's one of the primary reasons I abandon writing a certain storyline -- they say it's always a good idea to kill one or some or most of your characters to liven up the entire thing. That's how King wrote one of his novels apparently -- he did it in the post-apocalyptic one based in Vegas and LA. Not a bad one as things go.
Are there many ways to kill your characters without being too..unpalatable though? Let's find out! Here's a list of non-gross ways for characters to x_x.
1. Disappear from the face of earth.
2. Partially/completely disapparate, or disintegrate
3. Poisoned
4. Pushed off a cliff
5. Pushed off a running vehicle
6. Choke on something stupid
7. Struck by a celestial weapon that doesn't physically touch you, just takes your life away
8. Have your soul taken out by Yama or one of his goons
9. Eaten by skin-eating bacteria slowly until you just die
10. A ride in the MH370
11. Get exploded into thousands of pieces in the middle of an explosion
12. Fall down into a vat of suspicious-looking green liquid
13. Get thrown into the sun at hyperspeed
14. Have your existence removed from the timeline you exist in
15. Concussion caused by rotten tomatoes/eggs thrown at you for an awful musical performance
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