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Q&A How to detach yourself from a character you're going to kill?

If you want to show people it's a war game, maybe you play out combat situations, roll dice to see who gets shot and who lives and dies based on the situation and whose number comes up. Literature...

posted 5y ago by Dronz‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:01:08Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/45535
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Dronz‭ · 2019-12-08T12:01:08Z (over 4 years ago)
If you want to show people it's a war _game_, maybe you play out combat situations, roll dice to see who gets shot and who lives and dies based on the situation and whose number comes up.

Literature and _especially_ war and action fiction have had _more_ than their share of contrived forced deaths the authors thought were good thematic ideas, but instead were mainly transparent contrived dramatically-times sacrifices. If I don't see another of those, in the rest of my days, I'll still have seen too many.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-05-29T05:26:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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