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Post by Rabbit on Sept 22, 2011 1:42:49 GMT -5
List your crimes.
Here's how this works: If someone were to go through your books and arrest you, listing every crime a character has ever committed in one or more of your books/stories, what would the charges be?
Here are mine (well, the ones I remember) :
Theft, motor vehicle theft, assault, assaulting an officer, felony battery, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, stalking, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, prostitution, drug trafficking, rape, unlawful hacking, hacking into a government database, conspiracy, sedition and murder in the first and second degree.
Wow... 0.o
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Sept 23, 2011 1:05:34 GMT -5
Um...
Genocide, mass murder, serial murder, regular murder, manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, (possibly) conspiracy to commit an act of terror, terrorism, war crimes, torture...
Whatever you call raising a rebel army with the aim of taking down the government.
Er... theft of everything from a spaceship to a packet of biscuits, being a shapeshifter (yes, that's a crime in some parts), practicing magic...
Arson. Possession of explosives and unauthorised use of same. Carrying unlicensed and/or illegal weapons.
Speeding. Also various parking-related offences and probably driving an unregistered vehicle.
Tax evasion?
Hacking. Creating false identities. Spying.
It could be shorter to list the crimes none of my characters have ever committed. I didn't realise I'd created such a bunch of criminals.
Crimes I can think of but I know my characters haven't done: heresy, hijacking an aircraft, paedophilia, cannibalism... Wait, bank robbery? Seriously, none of my characters have ever robbed a bank?
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Post by Rabbit on Sept 23, 2011 5:39:03 GMT -5
It's amazing when you write it all down, isn't it?
I have serial murder, torture, treason, carrying illegal weapons, crossing territories without authorisation, preforming illegal experiments, practicing medicine without a license (or with an expired/invalid license) and cannibalism to add to my list now, too. And that story's just in the planning stages... 0.o
I am an awful, awful person-I mean, my characters. My characters are awful, awful people.
It's really amazing how quickly these things pile up.
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Post by wolfyone on Oct 15, 2011 10:06:41 GMT -5
Murder, kidnapping, torture, arson, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking, government sanctioned execution. My list is way shorter than yours! But wasn't it all fun to write?
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Oct 15, 2011 22:49:11 GMT -5
Definitely fun to write, but I always feel like I should apologise to the characters. I think that's why I always make sure I have happy endings.
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Post by wolfyone on Oct 16, 2011 1:50:55 GMT -5
I'm with you. I like happy endings. Life is hard enough without reading a really great book and then absolutely hating it because the end is terrible.
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Post by nanogeekette on Jun 2, 2012 23:46:43 GMT -5
My Current Novel:
Abuse
Kidnapping
Darn it my list is too short. Let me make a list for my April nove
Rape
Kidnapping
Stalking
Harassment
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jun 3, 2012 1:19:20 GMT -5
*facepalm* I have no idea which character on my list might be failing to pay his/her taxes. Also, I still haven't had anyone rob a bank or hijack an aircraft. |
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 3, 2012 3:45:02 GMT -5
@siana Can someone rob a bank and then hijack an aircraft as an escape vehicle? Kill two birds with one stone?
This really depends on the world you're writing in. I just now realised this...
I mean, in one that I'm planning I would be shipped off to a mental institution for all the writing. As well as possession of 'controlled substances' (candy. I'm not even kidding.) and 'inflammatory material' (fiction books and music and movies and anything else fun). And probably 'running a 'pro disorder' group'. They could probably charge me with endangering a minor or something...
But yeah, I don't think I'm actually breaking any laws this month... all I'm doing is triggering the apocalypse and that's not really a prosecutable offense.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jun 3, 2012 10:37:01 GMT -5
But yeah, I don't think I'm actually breaking any laws this month... all I'm doing is triggering the apocalypse and that's not really a prosecutable offense. Crimes against humanity. |
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Jun 3, 2012 22:44:29 GMT -5
@siana Can someone rob a bank and then hijack an aircraft as an escape vehicle? Kill two birds with one stone? Replace airplane with dragon, and you basically have what happened in the seventh Harry Potter book… |
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Jun 3, 2012 23:37:48 GMT -5
Which reminds me. Dragon Jacking (yes, in some cases, that is a crime), murder, rape, genocide, releasing the monsters that set off the apocalypse, kidnapping, assault, heresy, torture, abuse… Probably more that I have yet to find out…
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 4, 2012 3:42:31 GMT -5
@siana - True. But only if there's someone left to complain. Which I don't think there will be. Should there be an evil laugh there? Probably. *evil laughter*
Oh and various crimes at the government level. That's what I was overlooking in this month's book.
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