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No offense taken! This article sums up what I believe of how we should use hard topics such as sex/rape in our stories as God would have us do. God gives us perfect examples in the Bible such as your example of Lot and his two daughters. God was simplistic with the details but clear enough to figure out what happened without providing graphic details as the purpose is to state it happened but not how less the sin be glorified and distract the reader from its true purpose. I prefer to not state but more of a closed curtain effect where you get the hint and see the aftermath. I find it is better for the reader to decide on what happens.  And that is up to one’s conviction as to how they believe God would have them write their story. With the saying of keeping our enemies closer, even though a Christian’s conviction will differ from another Christian, we need to keep these hard topics like sex/rape close in how we approach them less we cause another brother/sister to trip and stumble.

@jared-williamsNo offense taken! This article sums up what I believe of how we should use hard topics such as sex/rape in our stories as God would have us do. God gives us perfect examples in the Bible such as your example of Lot and his two daughters. God was simplistic with the details but clear enough to figure out what happened without…[Read more]– Joshua Scheele (@storysmith) April 3, 2022

I think this article sums it up. If we believe we need to include sex/rape in our stories, we should portray it as God does in the Bible.

My story with its disregard for human life, the killing of innocents, slavery, and murder, it is pretty dark and sad. I hope to portray a dark world full of fear, war, and death and then show how always doing what is right no matter the cost is so important if we are to overcome evil in the world and not become apart of it.

My story also goes with the idea that we may not see the fruits of our labor within our lifetime or be recognized right away in history but if we look at those faithful men and women of the past, the great giants of faith, we know our deeds will echo through time and space before God no matter how big or small. I hope to have those moments where the reader cries in joy as they watch the character receive the fruit of their hard work after so much pain, trial, loss, and sacrifice, they finally see how the character’s actions and choices made such godly moral impact to their surroundings. I have been there myself sometimes in fictional stories but mostly in missionary stories and to me those are the most rememberable moments in the story.

That is most likely what I will do in many cases of my story such as how the kragvora and their venom bio-weapon were created. I did think of exploring the kragvora’s venom in how it works because it might end up being used as the foundation for a bio-weaponized plague. This will lead to the discovery of the bio-nanobots tech which is way ahead of its current time. And that might possibly lead to a cure for the infected kragvora and their feral human/humanoid victims.