Megan Suthers's Blog - Posts Tagged "death"
Death of a character
People who don't write can't understand how devastating it can be to kill a character. When I neared the ending of this book, I knew a certain person would have to go. It was heartbreaking. For days I felt as if I had lost something then I realized it wasn't the character I needed to let go, but the real life equivalent of that person.
With that in mind, I sat down with a glass of wine and re-read the death with "Seasons in the Sun" playing in the background.
"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone."
Unrequited love is a sad and terrible thing to live with. It's hard to embrace what we have in front of us when what's behind us keeps kicking our ass. But after all these years, I found a way to symbolically put a death to what could never be.
Writing is more than just story telling. It's therapeutic. It's purging. It's a way to move forward.
With that in mind, I sat down with a glass of wine and re-read the death with "Seasons in the Sun" playing in the background.
"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone."
Unrequited love is a sad and terrible thing to live with. It's hard to embrace what we have in front of us when what's behind us keeps kicking our ass. But after all these years, I found a way to symbolically put a death to what could never be.
Writing is more than just story telling. It's therapeutic. It's purging. It's a way to move forward.
