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[ljgeoff]

Yesterday I had a hell of a migraine, but I'm good to go today. This morning I was at the home health job, and now I'm at the art monitor's job, but getting ready to head home.

I've got about 10K on the work in progress. I need to kill some people, and I'm having a hard time of it. I just realized that I'll need to kill at least one of my main characters. I really don't want to, but not doing it would make the book really suck in ways that I don't want it to suck. Damn.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

If you gotta kill a character, at least let them go out in a way that further illuminates their nature. Like Samual Jackson said to Lucas, "I know my character's gotta die, I just don't want to go out like a punk."

Have you seen Stranger than Fiction? If not, you might want to kill off your character(s) first, before seeing it.

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

One of the main characters, Jorre, Aahzib and Tután, will have to die.

Jorre is rather Mike-ish. He is loving and loyal and emotionally honest.

Aahzib is ... I dunno how to say it. He has the most beautiful soul. From Ch 2: "We all knew that we all loved Aahzib best and we took turns sleeping next to him. He accepted it with grace."

Tután is the one I have the least handle on right now. My narrator calls her "little, round, deadly Tután" and says "No one takes Tután seriously until she cuts them."

My gut feeling is that it is Aahzib who should die -- I think because he seems as if he is not quite of the world. And I think that any of the characters would sacrifice themselves to save him, so one others might die, too.

I have to think about it more.

Do you have interest/attention for more chapters?