Readydaer wrote:
I was going to write a rape scene in my book as a catalyst for the victim (an alien villain) to discover bloodlust, but just before writing it I decided to read up online on how to respectfully write one. I came away deciding to change the catalyst because it may be too triggering for some, and because another event could have the same effect without the same unsavoryness.
Good call, rape as a catalyst is a bit of a cliché.
Obviously, there's reasons for that, but you can probably come up with something similarly universal.
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