Comments on: When to Kill a Character https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/02/when-to-kill-a-character/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: How a book is made (This week in books) - Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/02/when-to-kill-a-character/#comment-753593 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:58:32 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=45314#comment-753593 […] writing advice news, Angela Ackerman provides some scenarios for when to kill a character, George Saunders talks about how a good story evolves in waves and the importance of sitting with […]

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/02/when-to-kill-a-character/#comment-753563 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:47:36 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=45314#comment-753563 In reply to Alice Fleury.

That’s a good theme to work with, and so true. And definitely some genres a person will see more people die than others. Thinking of movies,at least, I don’t know there are a lot of horrors where this doesn’t happen, haha!

]]> By: Alice Fleury https://writershelpingwriters.net/2022/02/when-to-kill-a-character/#comment-753495 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:52:58 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=45314#comment-753495 I have two characters dying in my story. It is a YA Horror. The first is her mother and the second her guardian. My protagonist must learn family is the people who care about her, not the ones she’s related too. Blood doesn’t mean happy families.

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