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azdesertroseI'm writing a fantasy novel.
Tomorrow, I'm going to have to write a marital rape scene, although the rapist gets his comeuppance quite rapidly as he tries it a second time and gets his throat slit.
I don't want to write a rape scene but it's got to happen for the wife not to seem like an evil murderess for killing her husband, and her husband has to die for plot reasons.
I'm putting it off until tomorrow when Cliff is home so I can go snuggle him if I get triggered writing it.
I really hate that word, triggered, but nothing else describes that process as well. It just sounds so psychobabble to me.
Maybe it will be cathartic rather than triggering. We can hope.
Tomorrow, I'm going to have to write a marital rape scene, although the rapist gets his comeuppance quite rapidly as he tries it a second time and gets his throat slit.
I don't want to write a rape scene but it's got to happen for the wife not to seem like an evil murderess for killing her husband, and her husband has to die for plot reasons.
I'm putting it off until tomorrow when Cliff is home so I can go snuggle him if I get triggered writing it.
I really hate that word, triggered, but nothing else describes that process as well. It just sounds so psychobabble to me.
Maybe it will be cathartic rather than triggering. We can hope.
