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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
I write genre fiction and it is *surprisingly hard* to write a novel in which nobody dies; death tends to be trivialized or used to advance the plot and seldom traumatizes the survivors.
To which I say, to hell with that!
(Current WIP massacres with gleeful abandon, but it's SF set in a future with lossy mind uploading and replay, so they've effectively got mechanised reincarnation. Societal whackiness ensues.)
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