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Should a setting go into the gritty details of the horrible things that happen to show how awful they are? (Torture, brutal violence, rape, etc)? Or does grimdark work better when its subtle and le...
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System
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2019-12-08T09:22:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/37619 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Incognito
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2019-12-08T09:22:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
Should a setting go into the gritty details of the horrible things that happen to show how awful they are? (Torture, brutal violence, rape, etc)? Or does grimdark work better when its subtle and leaves things to the readers imagination? When does a dark fantasy setting become just gore porn? And how do you avoid writing said edginess just to make it darker?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-07-13T20:30:34Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 6