Comments on: RIP for the Seventh Time

By: Brooke Young

Brooke Young — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:22:10 +0000

the thing i like about Criminal Minds is the suspense

By: Hunter Reed

Hunter Reed — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:46:29 +0000

i always watch the tv program Criminal Minds it is quite interesting`;~

By: Emily Cotler

Emily Cotler — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:12:43 +0000

UPDATE: April 2010
Last week Mike Doyle’s mom had to watch him get killed off again (#8) in a guest stint of Criminal Minds. That same night, Mike is shot supposedly to death in the opening scene of In Plain Sight, then wakes from a three-year coma and -gasp!- comes back to life and gets to live when the credits roll. Mother’s Day comes early. Nice.

Video links may expire (I can’t find CM online anymore, just the clip):
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/video/?pid=oqkgpJl5vd9sVJK2fZoz37tNJYT8ElIx

http://www.hulu.com/watch/142221/in-plain-sight-coma-chameleon#s-p1-so-i0

By: Emily Cotler

Emily Cotler — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:38:33 +0000

Great advice, Hope. And though *I* wasn’t worried, thanks for assuring us you aren’t headed to the slammer for Murder-1.

By: Hope Tarr

Hope Tarr — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:11:17 +0000

This is a great question because as a romance author, I find myself frequently faced with the question, “Is it hard to write the sex scenes?” usually paired with the ubiquitous, “How do you do ahem…your research?”

But rarely if ever does anyone inquire about choreographing a death scene and since you did, I’ll chime in ASAP.

Writing a killer death scene can be well…murder.

For me at least. In my first book, A ROGUE’S PLEASURE, I actually had the villain killed “off screen,” which probably cost me at least 1/2 star from my 4 star Romantic Times review.

Since then, I’ve learned to bite the bullet, so to speak, but I still find it very difficult, not because I’m squeamish (tho I am, a little) but because while I’ve done the um…horizontal dance in real life I’ve never actually killed anyone.

Fortunately there’s Google, Wikepedia, and any number of great how-to books to help get the details down, including a little gem of a book called CAUSE OF DEATH: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO DEATH, MURDER AND FORENSIC MEDICINE.

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:11:15 +0000

One boy, three girls, all crushing on him. (See JQ’s tribute on FB.) Steve didn’t know enough to worry about it then.

By: Elizabeth Boyle

Elizabeth Boyle — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:53:29 +0000

Love the big smile and the knife in the chest–my sort of death scene.
The hardest one I’ve ever written was when I killed off a dog. I cried buckets over that poor fictional dog, and it was an emotional scene to write, and I had a very guilty pleasure of looking back at the pages and thinking, “Wow, I killed that dog good.” It was one of those days . . .

By: Jill Elaine Hughes

Jill Elaine Hughes — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:08:22 +0000

I actually have only written one death scene, and that person died in her sleep on an operating table.

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:15:14 +0000

Thanks so much for including me Emily. Love your site.
xMike

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:46:06 +0000

Cute little kid, he was. As a single-digit boy, Mike was definitely not one of the urchins on that block in Connecticut whom I figuratively wanted to murder.