User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-4353345-20140127075107/@comment-4123215-20140128094615

Here's an idea: Have a largely character driven sci-fi set on some sort of large space ship (Similar to the story idea I had a few weeks ago, which you can have by the way if you want it), but right in the middle, MASSIVE event. Say you have ten developed characters, have three-six of them survive. Don't try to make a big statement unless it's plot related, and don't force development out of a character just before they die, and don't favor the about-to-die characters over the living ones as that's predictable, but do it in a way in which the audience slowly finds out most of the characters died.