Do you intend to kill your characters off?

by Adrian Sroka
15th January 2014

Do you intend to kill your characters off?

I intend to leave some of my characters in the ether.

Why kill off good characters that my be useful in a series of novels?

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I've killed a couple of minor characters off already (they are war stories) but the first secondary character dies in book 4. I had second thoughts after I'd planned the story out, but his death is so essential to a major plot line he's got to go. Shame, as I was quite fond of him.

And don't shout it too loud but I think one of my two MCs will die in the final story. Not sure which one yet - I guess it depends who's better at keeping himself out of harm's way at Waterloo.

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