Character Assassination

Stephen King fucking did it to me again! The bastard gets me to care about a character, tag along with them for chapters and then BAM!, takes them away. Don't think I haven't forgotten what you did to me with Bag of Bones ya bastard! :)

Seriously though, it's a nod to the author when you care as much as you do about a character. I wrote the scene I'd been hesitant about yesterday, and it was one of the scariest I'd ever shaken out of my head. "It's up there," Holly said. She also used terms like "hair raising" which I don't think I've ever actually heard anyone say, just read it on the back cover of a paperback perhaps. But she wanted more about the character that had clearly died in the scene. She wanted to see things from the character's point of view. And she was disappointed when I told her that wasn't going to happen. She understood of course, it would be sad and disillusioning to go into that character's head at the time, but disappointed nonetheless. And that was of course one of the greatest compliments she could ever give. I had written this character so well that Holly didn't want her to go.

And that's what it's all about.

Currently Reading: Cell by Stephen King