Hero goes around killing red shirts?
Poor red shirts...
Heh...while I was driving around with Bilbo, I mentioned that most of the day today I've had that feeling you get where you think something wonderful is about to happen, but you can't for the life of you remember what.
Then I realized it was because stuff is actually going pretty well for my characters right now.
Bilbo said, "You know, there's something realllly sad about that..."
No, it's a minor character to my story, but an important person to the hero, and he doesn't kill anybody. Well, maybe, but I think even the bad guy survives... Anyway, I am very carefully crafting this next bit, because in about six hundred more words, the characters' lives get horribly messed up forever. I am happy.
Bilbo's right, that's sad, but sooo true... Sounds like the reverse of my odd form of therapy - I've mentioned this before - where if my day is just lousy, I come home and torment my characters until I feel better. I used to get pages and pages and pages of dreck and angst out of that, and then I got a life, sort of, so I only get pages.