That sounds too dark for me. I don't think I can handle crying and writing at the same time.
I really just need to amp up the badness of the heroine's father, without making him into a monster. He can't be a child molester or anything, because I want her to actually want him to acknowledge her. He needs to still be human, and I think that child abuse is enough of a polemic that people would react too negatively to it. He just needs to be a piss-poor father, without being a demon.
My parents and I are pretty close, and they are patently not jerks, though, so I'm not quite sure how to approach this. Damn my family for not being messed up!
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Date: 2008-11-08 05:57 pm (UTC)I really just need to amp up the badness of the heroine's father, without making him into a monster. He can't be a child molester or anything, because I want her to actually want him to acknowledge her. He needs to still be human, and I think that child abuse is enough of a polemic that people would react too negatively to it. He just needs to be a piss-poor father, without being a demon.
My parents and I are pretty close, and they are patently not jerks, though, so I'm not quite sure how to approach this. Damn my family for not being messed up!