: What is the best way to simulate grief? I am new to the art of writing and have been wondering if there is a way to introduce the grief of loss(character dies) in my story, inturn while

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I think the best way would be that you tame your readers.they should feel your character, like a close friend, like the little prince and the fox.
the readers are getting closer to your character as the story goes on, and then when she/he is sad, you feel sad, and if the character dies you feel it in your heart...
if you do feel it, readers will feel it too.

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It is more engendering grief in the reader than simulating it, but one must be careful lest the beloved character you killed off be the only one the reader cares about. It is one thing for the reader to put the book down for a few minutes and think about the loss, quite another for them to put it down and never pick it up again.

What you need to inspire in the reader is genuine sorrow that said character died balanced with caring how the others will cope without him/her. Will their quest fail without this character or will this loss galvanize them further.

When Katherine Kurtz killed the gentle healer Rhys, it shocked me. She had another character psychically linked with him at the time of his death so that he was not alone. This other character cared deeply for Rhys and his anguish seemed real. It made the death matter.

Killing off a good and interesting character must be important or the reader feels they wasted time investing more in the character than the author did.

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The best way I know of is to make the reader feel the grief too. By this I mean you build the character so well, make them so loved, that when they die it hurts. Then the reader doesn't just imagine what the other characters are feeling, they feel it too.

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