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@this-is-not-an-alien Hi! Thanks so much for the response and I am sorry it has taken me this long to respond myself. I appreciate your perspective and ability to explore trauma. My goal is to have a similarity in weight to one of my favorite book series Chronicles of the Kings by Lynn Austin (highly recommend if you haven’t read it). One of the main characters becomes an Assyrian sex slave (not the entirely direction I am going, but a bit similar) for a time, and deals with many sins– idolatry, child sacrifice, murder, pride, witchcraft, and such, but at the same time, it was able to maintain a great deal of levity even in the midst of all the real moral problems. I am not sure how to manage that per say, but tis what I am going for. Anyhow, I am wondering how you draw your boundaries for what you write (for the audience and for yourself) and set the tone for the story. I mean, how dark is too dark, in your mind? What details do you avoid or euphemize? How do you seek to honor God with your writing? And  If you wanted to maintain a lighterish feel with heavier themes, what would you do to achieve that?

Yeah, there is a lot, but I guess the main thing is how not to get stuck…… I always get stuck in writing about this kind of stuff for a few reasons. One is that I don’t know where to go with it… like I have this vague idea of what I want but I don’t even know how to describe it and then it just sits there.