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Now how shall I write THIS violent bit? Help me out!

Posted by Frank Cote on July 21, 2011

Posted in: Novel writing, Writing. Tagged: audience participation, camp nanowrimo, poll, word count, writing, writing prompt.

Last poll wasn’t a huge success but it’s fun to have them anyway.

Tonight I’m having to write about an assassination attempt on one of my characters. I have yet to decide what the actual attempt will be.

Help me out!

5 comments on “Now how shall I write THIS violent bit? Help me out!”

Bethan Le Maistre on July 21, 2011 at 07:26 said:

I voted for the speeding car, but, if the book is on the funny side, then go for the wildlife. 🙂
- Frank Cote on July 21, 2011 at 07:30 said:
  
  I’m still unsure where the book will fall on that sense. My wife thought it was on the funny side when I was going for serious. I’ve added on a lot to the parts she’s read, so that may have tipped it to the serious side.
  
  That being said, it’s a fun challenge to write ludicrous/silly stuff in a serious voice and try to pull it out. I remember for NaNoWriMo 2006, our Montreal group had the self imposed challenge of including a psychic ferret in our stories, and it’s in there in Revenant (it’s just a small two sentence thing, but it fits with where it is and is quite serious).
  
  So, serious or not, I will abide by the poll 🙂 I have ideas for all of them.
Bruce Boucher-P. on July 21, 2011 at 07:30 said:

A sniper’s always good. Because you can use the “killer” later in your story and snipers are hard to trace back to. Trained snipers anyways.
- Frank Cote on July 21, 2011 at 07:35 said:
  
  That’s true. As I said above to Bethan, I have some ideas for all the options.
Simon Cwilich on July 21, 2011 at 23:20 said:

Am I the only one thinking Badgers with Sniper Rifles?

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