MN> I guess I must be a bloodthirsty sort with more guts than brains.  Heck,
MN> I'd write a splatterfest if I could figure out how to do it tastefully.
        IMHO, I don't think the words "splatterfest" and "tastefully" can go 
together. :-)  I was just introduced to a genre called splatterpunk and 
though not my cup of tea may be an area you might be interested in.
MN> I've got one story where I blew up the Aswan High Dam and drowned twenty
MN> million Egyptians, and another in the Write Queue where one of my main
MN> characters sets off a nuclear warhead she happens to be sitting on and
MN> the resultant tsunami floods a valley with a division of neo-nazis in
MN> it.
MN>
MN> Still, I must admit that I haven't really injured any main characters,
MN> yet, although I have recognized the neccessity (after all, this is
MN> life), and have toyed with having one of them get her butt seriously
MN> kicked.  The most that has happened so far is that Evie fell off a barn
MN> roof and into a dung heap and twisted her knee.  (Not counting the two
MN> minor characters she killed, one of whom was offed with her bare
MN> hands, and the couple of episodes of psychogenic shock.)
        You remind me of science fiction writer Greg Bear. He's wiped out the 
entire planet Earth in more stories than I can remember.
        There must be something theraputic in writing violent stories.
        It appears that your main characters are mostly hyper-violent women?
MN> CL> IMHO, Gene Roddenberry could have taken an
MN> CL> important lesson from Carter and killed off the Wesley
MN> CL> Crusher character in the first year of Star Trek: The Next
MN> CL> Generation (an obvious Mary Sue if I've ever seen one).
MN>
MN> He did.  One of the episodes with Q, you might remember; the second one
MN> where Q tries to seduce Riker.
        No, I meant killed him off permanently like he did with Tasha Yar. 
Wesley Crusher eventually becoming a god was far too cloying for my tastes.
Craig Loewen @ Gettysburg, PA  >
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