: Re: 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

Do you actually need to describe the torture scene? Depends on the genre and your style, I guess, but I would rather do something opposite.

Describe the events up to where the torture begins and cut to the next day when the victim wakes up badly scarred, or the torturer reports the findings to his supperior joking about the screams and prayers of the victim making his job difficult. Let the reader do the job and fill it with the worst torture they can imagine.

We didn't actually see Theon's d##k being cut off. Would it improve the scene by much if we did?

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: Re: 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

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: I suspect your problem is a lack of story. Sex can be central to your story, but what stories are about is generally a problem the protagonist is compelled (or feels compelled) to solve.

: Doubt about the difference between a "Beat" and a "Event" My main source of research about storytelling/screenwriting/how-to-write-a-book manual is [1]. But, the definition of "beat" given by [1]

: How to write characters doing illogical things in a believable way? As much as I would like it, both in Worldbuilding and Writing, not every action is logical or "right". There are two types

: I feel like most of my characters are the same, what can I do? If I think about the characters I came up with in my mind so far, I usually get a pretty big list: (Gyvaris (ENTJ), Martha

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