Here's an author secret for you: I'm cruel to my characters!
I can't help it, but it's true. I'm evil!
I start off loving my characters, their flaws, hopes, dreams and their entire journey. As their creator I know them inside out, but after a while they get me down. In short, by the end of the rewrites and edits, and more rewrites and edits, and reading the same scene and/or dialogue over and over, and over and over some more I'm more than fed up with them. So much so I have to seek my revenge!
So, I write alternate endings to my otherwise happy ever afters and KILL my characters!
But I can't be the only one to do this? So someone please tell me that they also write alternative endings for their beloved characters!
Mine have a grisly death each time. I suppose it's a type of therapy that allows me to move on to my next book and new characters; a type of closure.
It works for me, anyway.
I can't help it, but it's true. I'm evil!
I start off loving my characters, their flaws, hopes, dreams and their entire journey. As their creator I know them inside out, but after a while they get me down. In short, by the end of the rewrites and edits, and more rewrites and edits, and reading the same scene and/or dialogue over and over, and over and over some more I'm more than fed up with them. So much so I have to seek my revenge!
So, I write alternate endings to my otherwise happy ever afters and KILL my characters!
But I can't be the only one to do this? So someone please tell me that they also write alternative endings for their beloved characters!
Mine have a grisly death each time. I suppose it's a type of therapy that allows me to move on to my next book and new characters; a type of closure.
It works for me, anyway.
If anyone wants to reveal their author secret/s here on this blog like the one above (send me your book link/details in return for a byline) for WWBB's JUNE theme: Authors' Secrets.
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