@A-weird-girler Kill your characters! I cried the first time I killed one of mine. I was writing an rp with my friend in ninth grade. We called our world the Dreamscape, and when the main characters died in a sequence, the world would reset in an entirely new reality with different things existing in that world. One character, Jett, killed my main character. That was his entire existence in the DS. In this sequence he'd come to peace with the lead character and himself. But he was losing his mind, because that played against his very existence. In the end, he went on a murder spree, screaming at himself, then, as he carried his wife away from the scene on his back, he sent a bullet through both of their heads. I cried when I wrote it.
Now I just feel like death is natural, and if it happens to a character in an unnatural way, that makes it tragic, but it was still inevitable, and therefore, it's understandable. That's why it connects to the readers so well. The first time I read a death in a novel was in sixth grade, when I read The Titian's Curse. I read series out of order all the time as a kid (I didn't know how they worked yet.), so that was my first Percy Jackson book. I didn't know the characters well, and I was thrown into an ongoing plot line. But when one of the characters died, it really hit me, and I was devastated, so I read the rest of the series.
(Anyway, sorry for all the replies, instead of using the @ sign. I replied while I read comments, and didn't wanna scroll down to my posts to add more... I'm gunna go write my novel now.)
