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Can I ask for some advice? I am up to a part of my new story I'm writing, and it comes to a part where the main character dies. The story is in 1st person, but i don't know how to write a death when the narrarator is the one who is dying. Any tips?

submitted by Hannah E, age 11, New York
(February 25, 2016 - 9:15 pm)

Hmm! That's really interesting! I never heard of that before. I never written a death scene like that.

How you write it will probably depend on the genre of you story. If it's funny, you probably won't want to say something dramatic. You could lighten it up, but dont make it where the reader is laughing.

For something serious, you may want to do a cliched term with something unique, like "As I took my last breath of life . . . I could feel the ocean engulf me as I sunk down to its murky depths" (just an example, not sure if your character drowns or not).

Basically, you might want to make it where the last thing the narrator is describing is how she/he is dying (or what they're feeling...)  

Sorry if Im not much help .

submitted by The Novelist, The Secret Forest
(February 25, 2016 - 9:46 pm)

Does your story end with the person dying? That would be hard to write. Are you having the character write from the state of death? It would be easier then, to say that you died. Is there another character in your story who is also the narrator, like in The Kane Chronicles or Heroes of Olympus? You could have them say that your character died.

Or, at the end, you could have a letter between two other characters annoucing the character's death. Good Luck with the story!

submitted by Bibliophile, age 12, Chicago,IL,
(February 25, 2016 - 9:52 pm)

Well, once I read a book (won't say what it is in case you haven't read it) where there were 2 main characters writing in first person and one dies and the other writes the last few chapters. Or you could switch to third person after they die. The person who died in the book sees her mother, who had died earlier, who tells the person that "their time had come" or something.

submitted by Elena P.
(February 26, 2016 - 9:08 pm)

You could also make the narrator 'end' his narration and make the last part of the book third person. Maybe.

Catcha says bghe, begone, foul fiend!   

submitted by Will T.
(February 26, 2016 - 9:31 pm)