Blog Assignment #8 - Breaking The Rules

As I write my screenplay "Morning Star Rises", I have discovered something important about myself. I don't care about the "rules" and want "Happily Ever After" for a murderer.

I guess I should start from the beginning...

(SPOILER ALERT) A woman is killing men in Sterling County. As they have sex, she reaches into their chest, and pulls their heart out of their body. She enjoys what she does, and I find it fun to write.

So when I come to the point where her identity is revealed, and she "must be stopped", I stop writing. I find it almost impossible to write anything worth reading. Would you like to know why? Because the rules state that she can't have a Happily Ever After. But I'm not one to follow rules.

So I wrote an ending, where she defeats those who would stop her, and found a powerful ally to have her back. And all I could think as I read it was, "Oh my god. I can't believe I wrote this crap."

That's right, I called it crap. And it was. Such a feel good moment, when the Killer and her Ally go off into the sunset to find their next victim. Wait, "their next victim". There is the problem.

The killer acts alone, and the ally is one of the good guys. And there are rules about stuff like that. But I don't want to follow the rules. So what do I do?

I'm thinking that the killer must die. But maybe she could die a hero. That would be breaking some rules, while not compromising any of my other characters' morals.

That's right, my cursed angels, sex demons, vampires and werewolves have morals. And I need to make sure that they keep them intact. Otherwise nobody is safe.