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Hello everyone! I’ve got a bit of a dilemma going on. So, my fantasy WIP, the first in a trilogy, is finally kicking off, I’ve got a writing calendar of how words I need to write a day to finish the first draft(goal of 100,000 words) within a year, and I’m sooo excited.

However…. I’ve created the characters, the cultures, the worlds, the religions, and everything else, and my story is….(How do I say this…)…. dark. It’s not pretty. It’s intense. It’s not flowers and rainbows, it’s scary sometimes. It’s real.

And I don’t mean horror movie scary. The theme is love and sacrifice, along with other themes of acceptance, racism, and hope. And I love my book. I love the story, I love the characters, I love everything about it. It’s my story.

But on another note, it’s a book I’d recommend for 15+. It’s got scary things in it. Not witchcraft, or things like that, but real elements from our world taken and put into fantasy. Demons. Satan. Blood. Evil. Spiritual warfare, on a physical level.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is… I don’t want to change these elements. They’re not graphic most of the time, not overly creepy or weird, but they are there. As a Christian, I know there are demons. I know Satan exists. And I’m not going to leave him out of a story or make him “nicer” just to please people. I’m going to write evil as it is–evil. I’m not going to squish my writing into a generic safe box. I’m going to make it real. Heck, it’s going to be scary sometimes. But I want that. I want to show the immense difference between light and dark. I want to.

But at the same time… I don’t want my plot to be to dark. What do you guys think? If you’d like, I can give you some short snippets to read over and see what you think.  But please tell me what you think. Do you think it’s to dark?

Thanks so much! I’m tagging everyone I know…. @daeus-lamb @morreafirebird @filewriter @devastate-lasting @sarah-narnathron @ethryndal @r-m-archer @allison-grace @sageinthemeadow @warrenluther04 @elizabeth @anyone-else