I’ve talked about the pleasures of character assassination before. By which I mean removing a character entirely from the plot of your story and nothing else. A fun little perk for a writer,
Today in the rewritting I had a character just expire on me. He no longer fit what I was writing, so he was gone!
Never had that happen before.
Kinda cool. But not as cool as the other intended kind of character death…
[...] The Venture Bros has died a painless death. Not because of plot or assassination, but because he shuffled off the literary coil while I wasn’t [...]