Writing Research - Killing your character convincingly
Killing Your Character Convincingly
For me research is the fun bit before a story takes proper shape and has, on occasion, given me confidence to write outside my own experience. It’s taken me to places I will never go in reality – Praise be to Google.
Killing your character convincingly is all about dying and fatal diseases. A series of short articles to explain the what, where, how, why’s and when’s should you ever feel the desire to kill off a character and don’t necessarily want to make it quick and easy.
Killing your character convincingly – Tuberculosis (TB)
You have created a character and breathed life into them in the pages of a story. Now you need to kill them off and have chosen TB, but how do you make it realistic? What is it, how and what happens? How, why and when would your character die? What changes, if any,...
Killing your character convincingly – Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema
You have created a character and breathed life into them in the pages of a story. Now you need to kill them off and have chosen chronic bronchitis and emphysema, but how do you make it realistic? What is it, what happens and how? How, why and when would your character...
Killing your character convincingly – Lung Abscess
You've developed a character and nursed them into being in the pages of your story, now they need to die and a lung abscess is your choice of killer. How do you keep the writing convincing? What is a lung abscess? What are the symptoms? What does it do and how does it...
Killing your character convincingly – Influenza and Pneumonia
You've created your character and breathed life into them in the pages of your story, now you need to kill them off and chosen Influenza and Pneumonia. How do keep it realistic? What are Influenza and Pneumonia exactly? What are the causes and symptoms? What would...
Killing your character convincingly – Stroke
You have created a character and breathed life into them in the pages of a story. Now you need to kill them off and have chosen stroke, but how do you make it realistic? What is it, how and what happens? How, why and when would your character die? What changes, if...
Killing your character convincingly – Heart Attack
You've created a character and breathed life into them in the pages of a story, now you need to kill them off.and a heart attack seems the way to go. How do you make it realistic? What is it, how and why does it happen? What, if any, changes would you need to write...
Killing your character convincingly – Staring Death in the Face
OK, a bullet to the head would generally do it, but what if you've lovingly created a character and now want to kill them off a little less dramatically. A little more slowly perhaps? Death is around us all the time, but it's not something we think about and rarely...