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[N. E. White]

somewhat lame self-imposed deadlines will have to do!

That works for me.

I'm working on the third (and final) book of my Draghi Chronicle trilogy. I'm about 17k in. All is going well, but I'm struggling with whether I should kill off my main character. Not so soon, but at the end.

At the moment, the trajectory is going in that direction. She'll still accomplish her goal for this book (and the series), but the cost of achieving that goal may be her life.

I'm trying to write her out of that, but we shall see.

 

[Alan L]

That works for me.

I'm hoping it works for me too, but somehow real life keeps trying to get in the way!

At the moment, the trajectory is going in that direction. She'll still accomplish her goal for this book (and the series), but the cost of achieving that goal may be her life.

I'm still thinking about that for my antagonist. One of the things I need to do is raise him from a caricature of a villain to something deeper, but after I do that, I'll be less inclined to kill him off (as much as he richly deserves it.) At the moment his fate is arrest, imprisonment, and financial ruin. I have/had no intention of making this story part of a series, but I have a decent back-story for one of my characters that's been fermenting through the whole process of writing this story. I may have to write that at some point. She's a bit of an antihero; maybe if I do keep exploring these characters further, having an old nemesis around could be useful. Or I could go for ambiguity. Just one distant gunshot would leave things hanging.

If you're at the end of the series it's a different problem though. Your readers are going to want some closure one way or the other. I do not envy you and your dilemma.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

After the Restoration, they only ran Nate's version of King Lear, which like the source Shakespeare used, he doesn't die.
Shakespeare turned many traditional stories into Greek Tragedies.