Saturday, April 24, 2010

How do you know when you need to get rid of a character?

I've been thinking about this and many other writing related questions lately. I guess I'm curious about everyone's process, to see if it is anything like mine. For me, a character needs to die when they are everything I hate, when they don't move the plot forward, when they are not planned for the book and make the book something I don't want it to be. There are quite a few reasons to "kill" a character...

What are yours? Do you ever get the feeling you need to get rid of characters before you reach the end of your first draft? What actions do you take to figure out if they really must die?

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