Monday, October 08, 2007

Only two years into this crime

writing gig and I find myself going to esoteric ways of killing people off. No kidding. My last two victims died by having things dropped on them: first a mirror and then a school bus. What's your favorite way to knock someone off? Who's used a good method lately? Does a humourous means of death ruin a good story cause I might hoist that school bus back up. It seems pretty strange already.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Other than having someone anally raped by a donkey or shot with a vibrator and rubber shotgun shell, my deaths have been pretty pedestrian. I've always worried more about the why's of the crime and the stuff that comes after the crime than the actual murder itself. Maybe I should start using my imagination some more...

pattinase (abbott) said...

I think the above mentioned qualifies you to use your imagination less. I'm in the minor leagues compare to you.

Anonymous said...

Heh--because a guy by the name of Eisler does it so much better I'm unable to use my medical knowledge to creatively whack people--so now everybody gets shot in the face. Or gets an anvil dropped on their head. [An Acme anvil of course.]
John McAuley

pattinase (abbott) said...

Is an Acme anvil the cadillac of anvils?

Sandra Ruttan said...

Well... For me, it's all about the crime fitting the killer/scenario. That often means it's a gun. I do have a creative method of murder in a short story that's placed, but if I told you it would spoil it. Let's just say when my agent read it, he asked me to consider writing a full-length work with the character.

Oh, and Micky Rickards disposed of someone via car accident.

Sandra Ruttan said...

Oh, and... it isn't a gun in WBW. But it's a secret.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Can't wait. I'm guessing torn apart by wolves.

Steve Allan said...

My favorite was the no-arms, no-legs guy who killed his wife with his penis. I understand Agatha Christie almost this same method in Murder on the Orient Express.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Steve-I remember it well.