: Re: A blog on sexual abuse and harrassment So I'm planning to start a blog where I write about sexual abuse, sexual harrassment and also domestic violence. Pretty heavy stuff right? That's why I'm

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I for one, like most people I believe, almost never read personal blogs. If you want your experience to be read, instead of just writing for catharsis, a novel is one of the few options. There are two main axes you can explore: the victim's or the revenge fantasies's.

Victim

That's the most straightforward, relate your story. The difficulty is to make us care enough for the character to be touched by what happens. It may also be hard to translate the event into a novel plot structure and length and particularly to be original.

Revenge

Use that rage to create an avenger character. For instance, something like Dexter with a pink skirt and garden shears, especially if you can bring in dark humor. Or darker, staying with your idea of a child murderer, maybe the abuse left her a sociopath and now she trolls web sites and isolated locations acting as a honey pot to Lure and kill abusers, peds...

Inspiration

Sadly for you, and for the state of the world, similar stories are very abundant and need quite an original approach to interest the reader. However, many authors have used the depth of their trauma as a source of inspiration. Even when the author's characters don't specifically mention it, that gravitas of life experience makes them more real, more complex, deeper.

“Taking the kernel of that experience and turning it into fiction was
a way of coming to terms with what had happened to me.” – Barbara
Boswell, author of Grace

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