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Oh yes, @aella, the dragons are the WORST!
And yes, I know characters don’t like being killed off, believe me. Villains especially. The worst part of it is when you go back and edit— and technically they’re already dead, but you’re having to work with them again while they’re still alive and able to complain about what you did to them at the end of the book! 😛Actually… the protagonists never really die for me, I guess, nor have I gotten anyone scheduled to die who seems to mind all that much. It’s sort of like… ‘Okay, Thaine, you and I are going to put on this play for the people reading this one little piece of your life, and you’re going to fake them into thinking you’re dead, and you and I will sit back and enjoy their reaction for the rest of our lives. Just us, since everyone else thinks you’re dead. Haven’t we tricked them, though?!’ 😉
@kate-flournoy THE WORST.
Oh yes, the villains are just soo fun. I chopped one of my side-villains out of the story completely… He doesn’t appreciate it much. He’s one of the worst behaving at the moment. XDYES! Except there are a few, who are just like, “Excuse me. My family/friends/side/team needs help, and YOU KILLED ME.” later on when I’m editing after their deaths. I don’t think any of my characters has ever totally died in my head… Although on some parts of them have gone away until I combine some of their traits with someone else’s, and bring out brand new characters from them, it’s actually kind of fun XD.
The most painful, I think @aella (and what I’m having to do now as I edit 🙁 ) is cutting characters completely and totally out of the story. It’s not the same as killing them— it’s like you get to know them, and then you’re just like ‘Sorry, you guys have to go because… whatever’. And then they’re gone. Boom. Just like that. Nonexistent. Not coming back.
I’ve two characters I’m cutting with my WIP, and I already know them both very well. Too well to put them in another story— there’s no other place for them but this story, and they were only slowing the plot. *weeps wretched, bitter tears* Sometimes I think writers are heartless because the editing process ripped their hearts completely out and they never quite came back. 😛It’s difficult to remember sometimes, isn’t it, that these worlds of ours—and the friends we make there—only exist in our imaginations?
I must agree with you, @kate-flournoy That is the most painful. I have several characters I’m thinking about cutting from my WIP right now… I’m not totally sure if I will or not, but I am fairly certain I will have to take out at least one, and I already cut another character from this, but it is probably the hardest part of editing for me. Exactly, they wouldn’t belong anywhere else. I’ve been able to “recycle” some characters before and just take out different things from them, or use their names again and develop new characters, but I can’t do it with these guys. :(.
Oh, those are the worst to cut, that’s pretty much what’s happening with the above mentioned characters^ for me. :(. I think you’re right, the editing process has totally ripped out my heart. I don’t think it’s a very good thing for future characters, they will be given no mercy. XDWait, what?! Are you saying they’re not, real? They only exist, in my imagination? *cries* I’m sorry Kate, but I simply can’t believe you. They also exist on the pages of the Microsoft Word document, onto which I have done my best to chronicle their actions, and have failed miserably in authentically showing them in words. XD But one day, sometime soon hopefully, others will share in their adventures, and become friends with them, and then it will not be only my imagination, but theirs as well. Although, I’m sure they will be different in their minds. XD. Unfortunately, I guess I must believe you, only in my imagination will they ever be so vivid and real, and the world to which I so often escape is not a Narnia to which I can just step through a wardrobe and be there, but it is one in which I can just close my mind to the real world, and be there, all I have to do is open my imagination. Yes, it is very difficult to remember, often times, that it is only in my imagination that these things and friends which are so real to me, exist.
I’m having trouble with deciding if giving the maid a full story line of her own is a good idea. And then there’s the fact that she doesn’t begin as the maid, so I’ll need someone else for that job and I’m tired of naming people.
What’s fun is not knowing who’s going to die and who’s going to end up on which side and who the heroine will marry.I have just made the sad discovery that Kingdom Pen now has an age range/limit as part of some of their submissions guidelines. In under two months I will be twenty-one, and too old to submit short stories, or poems, or serial novels (not that I had any plans for the last one, but it’s worth mentioning) to Kingdom Pen, and I haven’t even started yet! Oh, well. This is what happens when you reach your twenties. You get kicked out of all the fun stuff. 🙁
At least I get to send in a couple of things, maybe, before it’s too late. I wonder what I’ll do with my writing after my birthday? Maybe I’ll just busy myself working on a novel . . .
Anyway, that’s my mope of the day.
On a brighter note, @aella , my nemesis, (the evil bio in third person!!!) has been conquered, and great was the fall of it! Praise the Lord! Yaaaayyy! I’m very happy about that . . . I’m bittersweet happy.
At least, I think that’s what the age requirements say. Maybe I have it all wrong. I don’t always read stuff right when I’m tired . . . I’ll read it again in the morning.
@overcomer
Aww, that’s no fun! :(. I look forward to seeing what you do submit, though!
YAY! I’m glad your nemesis has been conquered!!
I hope you can still do stuff! 😀@overcomer – You could ask @Hope about it if the guidelines aren’t clear. I think she’s over 21. And if you can’t publish your writing on KP, you could still (I think) post it on the forum. I know I would love to read it. 🙂
Maybe we could create a special topic for writers who are over 20…@overcomer It looks like the submission guideline page is under construction or something because it’s not showing up anymore. 😉 But the KP team had talked about putting a 21 age limit on stories and so that’s probably what they’ve done. There aren’t age limits on articles though.
But…I should ask. Maybe KP could post one story a month from someone older. Someone who’s been with Kingdom Pen for awhile and wants to share there stuff too. 😉
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@overcomer Come 21 you can always create your own site. Your own site has your own rules. Or you find another place to publish or do Wattpad or something.
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Aw, thanks guys for showing up to support me. 🙂 @hope @daeus @aella @sarah-h
However, this may all have been a false alarm, because I read it again, and I’m fairly certain now that I misunderstood it the first time, and 21 year-olds can submit those things, just not after twenty-one.
See? If you click directly on “Get Published!” you can read it for yourselves . . . or just look below where I’ve pasted it. Yep, that’s probably the easiest way. ;p
This is what it says: (On poetry and serial novels also)
What do you think?
@overcomer Invision dancing dwarfs scarcely visible through clouds of confetti with chocolate fountains in the background.
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Yay! This calls for cake! (Of the chocolate variety, obviously… unless you don’t want chocolate in which case whatever type you like best 😀 )
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