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1. sim@shitposter.club's status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 07:08:36 JST sim

   • cool_boy_mew
   • Christi Junior
   • Dad
   @noyoushutthefuckupdad @ChristiJunior @coolboymew I agree with you about the importance of death in life and that it should be in fiction. It can be therapeutic to write about it, perhaps that is a part of why it came into my fiction as well. I have tried to capture a portion of that feeling. Perhaps even the hard times we are in call for it as much as we want to have an escape. A way to help in processing that feeling that we experience, both as writers and readers. I feel like I go on the journey as a writer too. I don't think we speak of the writing journey in writing these hard scenes as much as we do as readers talking about how cruel it is for writers to make us go through it.
   
   What does a banal fake death mean to you here? Is it about fake deaths in general, or more about the method of the death itself?
   
   Thinking about character reactions really makes me think again about how characters would react when it comes to something like mistaken death.
   • Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 07:08:46 JST Dad

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Christi Junior
     @sim @ChristiJunior @coolboymew when a character appears to die in a way that is obvious that they will be brought back soon or aren't really dead is so cheap and shitty to me.
     
     it can be for either in-story reasons (i.e. Batman is amazing and cool and always wins) or out-of-story reasons (i.e. permanently killing Batman would mean losing all revenue from selling Batman comics), but a fakeout death scene is really hard to write properly and I have personally never tried it.
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