I am a sick bastard

[danalwyn]

For those of you who dabble in the art of writing, have you ever had one of those moments while you were researching something for a story where you think "You know, if I weren't doing this for the purposes of fiction, I would be a pretty sick bastard"? In my case, this is usually followed by the thought "Nope, any way I look at it, I'm still a pretty sick bastard".

I had this feeling today when I was trying to figure out how many lashes with a judicial whip it would take to kill a fourteen year old undernourished girl. It disturbed me enough that I put down the story and haven't been able to pick back up where I was.

I absolutely hate it when moral qualms get in the way of writing something.


You can all de-friend me now and run away in horror if you choose and I won't take it personally

Comments

[bonita-chaotica.livejournal.com]

I had one of those moments. Except it came after the whipping, after the prolonged death via infected wounds and at the point where I was describing the state of the corpse. I wasn't quite sure what a week old mutilated corpse would look like, especially from the p.o.v of the parents. Troubling, that.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Not something that most people would want to know, I'm sure.