Timeline for How to detach yourself from a character you're going to kill?
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| May 31, 2019 at 15:21 | vote | accept | Kale Slade | ||
| May 30, 2019 at 21:53 | comment | added | Liquid | @CMB Indeed, that's a problem with Martin. While his method has its own merits, sometimes it undermines the importance of certain deaths. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | CMB | This is true, but in many ways I always thought Martin did a really poor job of killing his characters. Many of the deaths were so quick you really didn't have time to feel anything. I think he did this on purpose to emphasize the callous brutality of life, but it's not great closure for the reader. Suzanne Collins was bad at this too. Rue's death in The Hunger Games was so quick and abrupt that you didn't really get a chance to to care before the story moved on. There definitely needs to be a balance, but I'd rather read a well-drawn out death than an insignificant one. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 14:33 | comment | added | Liquid | Of course one can err in the opposite direction, e.g. trying to maximise the shock value of deaths (Martin is somewhat known for doing this in A song of ice and fire). | |
| May 29, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | CMB | This is a great answer. The way that a character dies has a huge impact on how readers think about that character. Don't try to distance yourself. Instead, make the death as impactful and personal as you can. | |
| S May 29, 2019 at 12:14 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2019 at 17:36 | history | edited | Liquid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2019 at 16:03 | history | answered | Liquid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |