Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150320010432/@comment-25396609-20150320233125

Is it a trait of a good writer to be a dick to your characters? because i've started pre-writing prologue 3 (i know, need to slow the fuck down, can't make myself stop writing) and i just realised, i'm making one of my characters, who is 3 years old in this prologue, lose a leg because of a grimm attack. my first full chapter kills off an entire village, including the main characters mother, my 2nd prologue has one of the villains murdering a family with a small child... Am I a bad person?