Bwah?

[piplover]

Have you ever been reading a really good fic, good plot, well written, when all the sudden it goes off into WTF-land?  Yeah, that's where I'm at now.  I can't even stop reading it because it sucked me in and now I have to find out how it ends.  But - where did that great story go? 

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[dreamflower]

I know. I recently totally went off another WIP I'd been following because of an unwarned character death, and even though it was an OC, it still really upset me. So far as I could tell there was no good reason except to make the canon character suffer.

There has to be more reason to it than that. The first time I killed off a character, I agonized over it for months, before I finally realized it was necessary. And I went out of my way to warn people. I telegraphed it in every way imaginable, so no one would be shocked. And I put it in a side story, and not in my main WIP at the time, so readers who did not want to read about it would not have to.