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If the torture scene is happening to your MC or your current narrator, instead of focusing on all the blood and gore which can make a lot of readers queasy or uncomfortable, focus on the narrator's...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:56:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T10:56:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
If the torture scene is happening to your MC or your current narrator, instead of focusing on all the blood and gore which can make a lot of readers queasy or uncomfortable, **focus on the narrator's agony**. If your goal is to both portray the goriness of torture to send a message AND show your narrator's pain, and especially since you said yourself you haven't really witnessed anything gory or violent, you should watch a horror movie or at least read up on torture. If the torture scene is happening to someone else and your narrator is watching, **focus on the narrator's absolute horror and disgust at what they see**. You don't have to do a play by play of every single action, but to show the reader why your narrator is so terrified, you should give the reader a taste of what the narrator sees. If you're totally uncomfortable with blood and gore and you just can't get it to work in your writing, **try psychological torture**. This focuses almost completely on the mind, so you can take it wherever you want to.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-02-20T15:37:27Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 19