Genres and Forms

I published my zombie love story as a serial blog while I was writing it. Now that it's done, I'm revising and building a completely new, static website, but this raises all kinds of questions in my mind. When I publish something online, I have the ability to make changes after the fact, improving the story and presentation, but what does that mean for people who already read it?

I think this applies for serials, novellas, novels and shorts.

How do you feel about character death?

For me, I don't like character deaths where they are plain senseless. For me, character deaths add to the tragedy/sadness/pathos. I don't like doing it - but sometimes, it's an essential plot device/tool.

Thoughts?

Jolantru

Called perhaps the greatest writer of the post World War II generation, he died after living as a recluse for fifty years. As writers, no matter the stripe, if you were a fan or never touched a word of his, it's a moment to acknowledge.

"We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too." -- Franny and Zooey

My main story, The Shadows of Sicily falls, broadly, into the fantasy category. It's definitely dark fantasy, though, and not for children - both violence and sexuality figure in the plot.

Fantasy is a pretty broad genre to me. Dark fantasy is a bit more specific. Dark quasi-vampire ancient Roman power hungry Machiavellian fantasy seems a bit long.

I'll start a thread for the sci-fi genre.

My longest-running work is Space & Time (seven months and counting!), and it's set in a Galaxy that may or may not be far, far, away. The action takes place onboard a space station and focuses on an alien slave child, her master, and various other characters. It's sci-fi for those reasons.