Diary of a Mad Writer

Today's Diary of a Mad Writer blog entry is about character death. I recently killed off a character that I never thought I would, or at least never thought I would this early, and it's affected me. Why is character death such a fundamental part of writing, and why do authors want to avoid it as much as they can?

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