: Re: How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying In my fantasy novels, I don't want to kill anyone off, I just want to get them injured, like badly. I made up numerous believable excuses

If you replace death with injury as the most common consequence of combat, you need to make the injuries meaningful and interesting. That means spending more time describing them, and coming up with a variety of hurtful things to inflict upon your characters.

It also means you need to come up with a replacement to quickly "off" a not-important side character (goons, etc.) - death is just convenient in such cases and explains why they never come back. With injuries insteady, you have to be more resourceful, and that resourcefulness will also counter the boredom and repetition factors.

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: Re: How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying In my fantasy novels, I don't want to kill anyone off, I just want to get them injured, like badly. I made up numerous believable excuses

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