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Originally Posted by Xanthe
What do you folks think about authors who become seemingly incapable of killing off any of the "regular" characters who appear in a series, when situations occur where the character should have met his or her natural or unnatural demise? When the characters become so real in the author's mind that he/she just cannot eliminate them, even though the story arc suffers? How can you recover a series that is stagnating because of something like that, without a wholesale slaughter that would alienate the core readership?
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Xanth. Just... Xanth.
I mark the point that the series went downhill when all the older characters starting coming back from retirement with youth potions so that they could frolic and cavort again under Anthony's all-seeing eye.
