Southern Cross Novel Challenge

So, I'm toying with the idea of killing my protagonist.

Buuut...

I'm only a bit over 32K into the story and now have her in a situation where she can be either simply wounded or mortally wounded. I think if she were to die it would still take another 2k but after that I'd have little plot to go through.

I'm doing medieval fantasy so there is also the possibility of healers even if she were to me mortally stabbed. My original idea has been for her lover to believe that she is dead and to have lots of angst and them have a teary reunion in the end... (And I know it's kinda cliché)

Any suggestions?

Got my pen, now where's my plot?

an oracle proclaiming doom if your protagonist does certain things. This is where you can have fun with twists. A vision of death might show the outcome but in the old classic way of things, trying to avoid it, causes it to happen.

You can fill in space with the possible death of the seer in a fit of anger, the fear, the reuniting with her lover right at the end - before he leaves her again and she accepts her fate... oh there are so many possibilities. Fate is a wonderful tool for writers. Just make the vision ambiguous. You can even have two characters interpret it in two different ways.

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WWWwace 2007, 2008!!!
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Body count: 1 Institute heads, 4 professors, 2 postdocs, 2 PhD students, 2 sequencing technicians and numerous bad guys...
Oh I wish I could put that on my CV.

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You could have her simply wounded but with a whole bunch of other characters thinking her mortally wounded and then dead.

Alternatively you could have a look at what the other characters are up to and see if a subplot is strong enough to take over or be more deeply intertwined.

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If you actually like the thought of her being dead, you could actually have her die and then pick the story up from the point of view of another character, as well, such as the seer or her love interest.

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I have killed my protagonist at least 4 times. :)

I am typing with the idea of killing him again, but am not sure yet.

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I did, in the end, kill her off. But in such a way that I might possibly bring her back in a (the) sequel. I simply couldn't let her live.

I actually didn't have her actual death foretold by a seer or anyone. I just had her lover see her unconscious and have really bad omen like thoughts. And then she saw her later, stabbed but not yet dead so it kind of became a true vision.

I do have a pair of lovers, who helped my MC and her lover on their quest to save the world, who have a murky past and issues to sort out. But I'd hoped to have made that in a book of it's own. I think I could always simply make the reader all intrigued by their story and then leave it's climax and the resolving of their issues in the sequel. I think I may just do that.

And I do have some sub plot things which, on their own, I suspect will take about a few thousand each to resolve. Hmm...

This was the first time I killed my protagonist. I feel a bit giddy. And sad. She was a real darling. I miss her.

Got my pen, now where's my plot?