Savor It!

Jaycinth · Nov 8, 2007

I like to, you know?

Every time I write a death....
(And I seem to killl a lot of folks for Sci Fi, but, like, who's gonna stop me, huh?)

I get right to the killing stroke....

...and then I stop writing.
I have the scene totally scripted out in my mind...and notes on paper besides...

But I can't keep myself from stopping, stepping back, having a glass of wine, looking at it from all angles... sometimes for days.....

savoring the moment...

...and then I go back and finish them off exactly as planned.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

I'm not the only sick puppy, I KNOW IT!!!

Fess up you scoundrels!

nessam · Nov 8, 2007

My mc likes to just kill and move on with her day. She's cool like that. She hasn't killed anyone important yet.

Eudaemonic · Nov 8, 2007

I enjoy killing.

On a page ok? Not actually killing

But then I would say that wouldn't I? I'm not stupid.

Haggis · Nov 8, 2007

I actually don't kill as much as I should. I do so enjoy corpses. But when I do kill, I prefer the anticipation of it rather than the act itself. It's not that a good killing doesn't brighten my day, but once it's done, it's done.

Jaycinth · Nov 8, 2007

Haggis said:
I do so enjoy corpses.

You brush you teeth after, right?

donroc · Nov 8, 2007

Mine in the book below NEED to kill, for a sinister type of nourishment. Available later this month/early December.

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Rolling Thunder · Nov 8, 2007

I only kill kittens.

donroc · Nov 8, 2007

Rllgthunder said:
I only kill kittens.

Rotter, cad, bounder, may the Egyptian gods seek revenge.

:tongue

CACTUSWENDY · Nov 8, 2007

In mine, the build up is the stroy, not the act it's self. I like the tense feeling in the pit of my tummy. The sweat dripping off my brow. A deep low ringing in my ears. Opppsss.....

The build up....is where the fun is.

SpookyWriter · Nov 8, 2007

Rllgthunder said:
I only kill kittens.

That's because you're afraid of commitment.

Ziljon · Nov 8, 2007

SpookyWriter said:
That's because you're afraid of commitment.

You're one to talk.

SpookyWriter · Nov 8, 2007

Ziljon said:
You're one to talk.

I remain committed. Where is a different story.

Jaycinth · Nov 9, 2007

....and...it is Friday...and I'm still waiting and watching..and waiting for Greg to raise his visor and space himself.

Explosive decompression....ahhhhhhh...what. a. rushhhhhhhhhhhhh!

now...which of my characters can/should I off next?

Haggis · Nov 9, 2007

Why not do in several in the same scene?

Jaycinth · Nov 9, 2007

...you mean...like an orgy?

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 9, 2007

My MC just had to kill someone with a sword in my urban fantasy. He didn't savor it. He's never had to kill people before and it goes against his nature. Although this guy was a total SOB and had just tried to off his would-be girl friend.

Haggis · Nov 9, 2007

Jaycinth said:
...you mean...like an orgy?

Yeah. A blood bath. Why not?

Calla Lily · Nov 9, 2007

I've killed 3 at once. It took a long time. Oh, the blood! Oh, the squicky things the bad guys did.

I do so like my bad guys. They're so certain they're on the side of Goodness.

And little children don't even fear me in RL.

Saundra Julian · Nov 9, 2007

Come to think of it, every one of my stories has at least one killing in it...hum.
BUT everyone who gets murdered has it coming!

Jaycinth · Nov 9, 2007

Within the first 3,000 words of my first novel (Hel-lo...agents???) I blew up a planet and a fleet of starships, not to mention the local, in system shuttles.

I must have blown ten million people right to smithereenes.

And from what I can tell...only two of them really deserved it.

And it was anti climactic.

No blood, you see. Just fast painless creamation.

And I did not pause to let the reader see what happened to the survivors, because that was not part of the story line...although I did give hints.

I've gotten a bit more graphic with this one. Hmmm

Chapter 1...I off three people, except on was offed by an alien before the book starts, so if you count the alien as a person, I off 4. Wrong place...wrong time...but they are individually crafted demises. Chapter 7 I off another perfectly innocent lady. Once again, this offing is hand crafted..and I let it age for 2 years. Chapter 8...another couple..but one guy was already dead befrore I doused him with chemicals and set him ablaze.

And you all know that I'm killing Greg Minus...savoring it at the moment, truth be told. MMMMMMMMMM....tasty... minus Minus, I guess

Then there is collateral damage, another couple of planets...is it an orgy yet, Haggis my dear?

Hmmm .....I put the captain of a battle cruiser in a shuttle, holed it and let it crush him like a bug when it decompressed,(SALSA!)

I pinholed another crew member..... stuffed a space ship full of decomposing bodies. hmmmmm??????

Oh...and then I killed grampa!!!

Not bad for a sci fi novel, huh?

I suppose I could put a killing orgy in the next one...

but I think I prefer hand crafted, well-seasoned deaths, don't you???

WELL...DON'T YOU?????

Calla Lily · Nov 9, 2007

I too like the buildup. Like the original The Wicker Man, where I watched the penultimate scene thinking, "They're not going to end the movie like that. No, they're not. They're just not." And of course, they did.

A lesson is terrific writing. The book was actually not quite as good, although it had a slight twist the movie did not.

Rolling Thunder · Nov 9, 2007

I'm still killing kittens.

donroc · Nov 9, 2007

Rllgthunder said:
I'm still killing kittens.

May cat dander tickle your nostrils and you not be able to sneeze.
May the shed hair from a thousand Persians clutter your keyboard.
May the fleas from 10,000 kittens infest your armpits and nether regions.

:roll:

www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

NeuroFizz · Nov 9, 2007

Not quite for me, Jay, but that IS the way I do love scenes. But I'm not exactly idle when I'm savoring it. Or flavoring it. Or shavering it...

Jack Nog · Nov 21, 2007

I've found when erasing a life from one of my worlds, this is best accomplished by 'zoning' out and letting the mind be free. I come up with all sorts of twisted methods by letting the pen (er...fingers) flow. I don't believe I've yet scripted a death scene. If I get to the outline point in my story (somewhere in the middle after random typing), I still just put down *So and So Dies here" and then think it up when I get there.

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