Desiderius Price

Only if you’re writing a how-to-guide with the intention of carrying it out…. imo. I’m on the fence when it’s confessional, because this is one of things you shouldn’t fully act out in the name of “research”, like a bank robbery or something equally sinister.

Careful with the mulch, it ran an arm and a leg!

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Murder’s fine. I’ve got a woodchipper for anybody who disagrees.

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Chapter 11, “February” is now posted. Have fun! - DP

Rape is part of human behaviour so it certainly can have a legitimate role in stories. It happens in wars, on the streets, in intimidation, in business, and in families. To deny it is to restrict to only one side of humanity. Rape is more than plot, it can simply be a person’s character, if they’re isolated with another in a vulnerable situation….or, coping with a character’s past (ie, the victim). And how the story’s society responds to the victim/perp, that can illustrate the world.

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Maybe hook is the wrong way to describe how I approach it, more like glue. I generally want my first sentence, first paragraph, to have some traction on the reader’s attention, to pull them into the story. I figure that I’ve got a thousand pages to describe the growth of tree rings in intricate detail, so I can spread it out throughout the story.

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So, the zombie apocalypse isn’t for you?

Maybe it’s just my attention span, but I need the story to draw me in quickly, because otherwise, I’ll put it aside. In the era of you-tube/TV/movies, perhaps the attention span’s shorter and thus the publishers are well justified in wanting that early hook.

I’ve tried writing PWP, but then a plot formed, and, well, I’ve got my series of stories still chewing on those!