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In my massive fan fiction, I have a Implied molestation of one of my characters. How she deals with the Templar who accosted her as well as it's affects on her future relationship with Zevran are featured.

I think to say we can't talk about rape and how it's depicted in fiction because it makes Smiles uncomfortable is a bit silly. If it's a topic handled in a respectful manner it should be allowed. Or is this the PG 13 Writer's Corner?

Rape just tends to be a really touchy subject.

So any advice for writing battles? Aside from the links fiannawolf kindly provided?

Sounds great! But do you have any advice?

Pssh. 30 characters? Hell, there are like 30 characters named "Bran Stark."

When I read the novels first, I started with the second one (while waiting on the first), and had no problems with getting into it. Martin is a television writer so he is able to handle the PoV approach beautifully. After reading the Game of Thrones proper (that is actually the name of the first novel) I considered the introductory chapter to the second book stronger, actually. I would highly recommend reading the first three novels in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Yes, some passages are hard to take, and the story collapses into the fourth and fifth novel, but the writing is very distinctive and engrossing to start with.

Even better, try searching the net for Martin reading a chapter or two. Or making a presentation. I was lucky to catch a couple of his signings before he was famous and actually went on book tours like a regular mortal to the backwater cons... and boy, was he marvelous as a story-teller before a live audience.

If the ASOIF is a hard read, his Dunk and Egg novels are shorter, lighter and deal with far less characters, but still demonstrate well his story-telling ability.

And failing that, well, there is always Joe Abercrombie, just not the Heroes, lol. But I had been out of reading fiction for a few years now, so might be the new authors have emerged, and I am living off very old and distant memories.

Rape in storytelling doesn't necessarily need to portrayed in violence. For example, there is statutory rape.

Recently, I've begun drafting and researching a writing project around that criminality and online communities. This project began as a catharsis to deal with a real life event involving the luring and sexual abuse of a minor and the subsequent cover up I had witnessed and tried to prevent. However, what began as a project to come to terms with the event is taking on a life of its own.

As the draft grows it's becoming apparent that there are many insights that could be laid out in the story. One of the abhorrent lessons being that sometimes victims will look to their abusers as friends. Another being that women will also participate in the abuse of minors. Another is that a community in a belief to preserve itself, its interests, or its members will protect abusers and castigate those that would speak out about it. That is just an example of the basic surface of the it. There are some interesting parallels in the media recently with Weinstein, Cyril Smith and the story of a young German girl(16) from a broken home groomed by members of ISIL. Yet, all these are just simply the surface of some basics and those news events something to add to the setting. As the study of events progresses and after a thorough analysis and development of the characters is completed it's expected that various pathologies could be explored and developed in depth in the project through character behaviors and dialogue. It's based on a true story which has provided insights that would have escaped my imagination but didn't escape that of the abusers. It's my goal to remain true to events, although names and other identifiers may be changed.

What seems important to say in relation to your post is that while the subject of rape shouldn't be something that is celebrated it also shouldn't be ignored and remain unspoken either. In dark and repulsive ignorance is where these abuses occur and abusers operate with the hope that witnesses, authorities, and the abused will have other concerns or prefer to justify the abuse or willfully ignore it. If handled carefully, thoughtfully and thoroughly writing on the subject of rape could bring awareness to ignorance by extending an opportunity to engage a dialogue on the subject to a larger audience. In a way it brings light as well as reason and may help prevent recurrences and protect those who are vulnerable and, perhaps, bring healing to communities.

It wasn't on a darkweb site, DomeWing333 . It was on a site that one would expect there wouldn't be such conduct. It was a gaming website.
Of course, you'd know nothing about that.
Your response does bring up an interesting pathology that will be in the project. How some sexual abusers won't take responsibility for their actions and the harm they cause and will continue to victimize. Until they are stopped.

edit:
Since you're one to edit your posts later it seems prudent to quote you in full with what you have currently written:

It's probably a bad idea to base my shameless cash-in idiot-level romance for the Twilight/Fifty Shades crowd.

Also, I think I have to use a female pen name. That will be awkward. 

If this is true, you are wasting your trauma. Trauma is motivation!



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