[quote=thewizardguy]
How come your characters become so much more interesting moments before death? Ima give him a chance, let's see how this works out. To me, this is how I think Broding would react, cuz that's how I imagine he thinks about the world.
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Yeah sorry, I'm great at writing about someone's last moments, but terrible at narrating their life. When they're alive, it's all about "He did that, then stabbed this," or "he slept with that, but not that because it had crabs."

... When they're facing down the end of their existence though, it's time to cash their chips. Everything they've done in their life comes down to one singular moment; who they were, what they've done, their failures and successes, all summed up to create who they are in that one final scene.

Anyway, I'll have to go away and think hard about how Polvark goes out, if he does... although things being as they are, death looks like the only path to walk down.