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Q&A How to write painful torture scenes without being over-the-top

I'm trying to write torture scenes but I'm not really all that confident about it since I've never written anything like it before and have never really witnessed anything violent. I know the metho...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Tiana‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:56:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/42376
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Tiana‭ · 2019-12-08T10:56:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm trying to write torture scenes but I'm not really all that confident about it since I've never written anything like it before and have never really witnessed anything violent. I know the methods and steps of the tortures I want to write about but it's more the description and how to write it without going too far that's hard for me.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can write these scenes in a way that the reader will wince in pain, instead of cringing from a bad scene?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-02-20T15:29:17Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 20