: Re: Sensitivity with disorders/mental illnesses The novel is overall very distressing and supposed to elicit emotion from the readers, it's practically dependent on it. A few of the characters in my

My answer for this is my answer to any question about portraying an illness or trauma: talk to people who are suffering from it.

People with depression and/or suicidal ideation may not always be willing to discuss it, but if they are, they can help you write your characters in a way that's both realistic and won't be upsetting to them. For an example of what not to do, I know a lot of people who were quite upset by the graphic suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why.

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: Publishing my book my name is Ash, and I'm 14, I've been writing since I was in sixth grade, well, I mean I've been writing over 500 words since sixth grade. I have written small little

: Re: Sensitivity with disorders/mental illnesses The novel is overall very distressing and supposed to elicit emotion from the readers, it's practically dependent on it. A few of the characters in my

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: I am thinking how can I create an effect in the story to make my readers constantly ask the question, how will this end?, like the novels I mentioned above. The relevant concept here

: What is a term for groups of stanzas within a poem? Many free verse poems have "sections" or "divisions" within them that may be numbered or set off by a group of three

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: Publishing my book my name is Ash, and I'm 14, I've been writing since I was in sixth grade, well, I mean I've been writing over 500 words since sixth grade. I have written small little

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