10 Reasons to Consider Killing Your Main Character
Ken Miyamoto
Professional and Produced Screenwriter, Film/TV Industry Blogger & Content Creator, Former Sony Pictures Script Reader/Story Analyst
When and why should writers kill off a main or significant supporting character?
As you develop stories, you always need to be looking for opportunities to shake things up, inject more conflict for characters to deal with, and surprise the reader and audience. These are the elements that you need to ensure that your stories are compelling and engaging.
Things need to happen. Routine storylines do nothing more than bore the reader or audience. And because of this truth, you’re going to have to find story points and plot devices to make your story and characters more interesting and impactful.
And there’s no more compelling and engaging plot device than killing off a major lead or supporting character.
Here we share ten simple and straightforward reasons you should consider killing someone off within your story.
Beware of spoilers!
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