A Little Sample

Right now, I’m working on a printed reference sheet with details about all the characters, places and terms for my novel. Normally, I keep them in a small notebook I have at the ready, but it’s a pain to sort through all my hundreds of notes, one liners and descriptive passages. Once I finish it, I’m going to attach pictures of my character’s ideal faces, their vehicles (if they have one), houses, locations, etc.

In the process of this, I was crawling through old writings I had, looking for things I would not use in my novel. I had a passage I wrote just to get the idea on paper. But I’m not sure if I’m going to use it, so here it is:

The thing was, I knew everyone didn’t deserve a happy ending. The world was not perfect and some things were just never resolved. Villains did not deserve one because, unlike heroes, villains always end up where they were because of their own circumstances. They screwed up the murder plan, the bank robbery, the kidnapping, the hostage negotiation, the shootout…

So they deserved to get shot fifty times by the police or thrown off a massive building…or even have a massive piece of technology fall on them.

But heroes were never guaranteed anything. Nor should they have been. After all, heroes always lost something in their lives and that…is the price of heroism.