What is the hardest thing to write?
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For me it was a scene in Chase
the Moon.
I write historical fiction, so life in general was not easy.
There was a high mortality rate from natural, as well as unnatural means.
Neither option is pleasant.
I do not write by with an outline. Thoughts flow through my
mind and I write them as they happen. I put myself in the characters place and
try to bring you there as well. In Chase,
one of my supporting characters dies. This is a character that I brought to
life first in Run into the Wind.
So I was attached, as well as my readers. The death came as
a great shock to me and I cried as I wrote it. And my readers cried as they
read it. And they cursed me.
But life is hard, and it doesn’t always turn out the way you
want or expect it to.
Not only do you have to write the death scene, but you have
to write the other characters reactions to it. Like us, they all handle death
differently. Some were sad, some were accepting, some were pissed at the whole
world. Each and everyone of them was not only touched, but changed by it.
And they carried on, because we cannot control death, but we
cannot stop living either. Death is just another chapter of life. One we will
all write in the end.
So yes, it is hard to write about death. But the fact that
they were touched by my character so much to weep at their passing is the
greatest of compliments.
Lynn Hubbard is a Historical Fiction author. She has been writing for over ten years and has five titles. Three of which are westerns. Lynn is fascinated by the Old West and her books portray when life was simpler. When, people worked hard, and sweated to make an honest living. And when justice wasn't always blind.
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