Wednesday links: Killing characters

I love regularly reading tips and advice articles in certain subjects — particularly writing and publishing. I don’t always need the information right then, but I know that it’ll eventually come in handy. Or at least, I hope it will.

I know there are a lot of other people out there who feel the same way I do, but sometimes it can be difficult to find every useful advice article that’s out there. So I thought I’d bring you a few.

Here are the tips and advice articles that jumped out at me the most over the past week.

1. How to Successfully Kill a Character: The Checklist, from Helping Writers Become Authors: How do you know if the character you want to kill off is truly a character you should kill off? Sometimes, it can be hard to know. But this post gives you a place to start in figuring it out. Excerpt: “Authors are always being advised to be mean to their characters. Often, that meanness involves killing them off. And even as we may bawl over our beloved characters’ deaths, most of us get a strange sort of fulfillment out of it.”