{"id":33701,"date":"2014-08-07T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=33701"},"modified":"2014-08-07T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:39:31","slug":"reader-q-on-abuse-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2014\/08\/reader-q-on-abuse-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Q on abuse in books"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I had recently somebody ask me why I had abuse in my books, specifically Kit’s books…was I having fun torturing her?<\/p>\n

This comes up a lot, so I’m just going to blog about it and when I get asked, I’ll direct people here.<\/p>\n

Do I torture my characters or write about abuse because it’s fun?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

I’m not a plotter. \u00a0I don’t set out with a plan in mind\u00a0lets see how much hell I can put these characters through<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now when I’m writing romance, I do work at finding realistic ways to keep them apart, because if you’re not doing that, you don’t have a romance. \u00a0You just have a HEA. \u00a0There has to be a conflict, internal and external, or there’s just no story and what’s the point.<\/p>\n

But yes, I do have a habit of writing about people who have gone or are going through abuse. \u00a0And no, I don’t do it because I think it’s okay.<\/p>\n

Abuse appalls me.<\/p>\n

Sexual abuse appalls me.<\/p>\n

It pisses me off. \u00a0I regularly donate to RAINN and I’ve mentioned the organization in at least one, if not more, of my books.<\/p>\n

Bullying appalls me. \u00a0I’ve the one who will approach kids and teenagers when I see them picking on somebody else and interfere. \u00a0Have I gotten yelled about this? \u00a0Yes. Do I care? No.<\/p>\n

Domestic abuse appalls me. \u00a0There’s been more than one time when my husband was almost positive either he, me, both of us would end in either in jail, or the hospital because I’d see something happening that I didn’t like and I’d shoot my mouth off and the guy involved wouldn’t like it. \u00a0When I go out of town on a trip, he tells me to stay safe and behave, and more often than not, I suspect it’s because he knows how I am with my mouth.<\/p>\n

I had to leave my day job in nursing, in the end, because of burn out and part of that involved a boy who’d been abused by his father. It was breaking me inside.<\/p>\n

I grew up seeing more than a few people I knew in life be abused and I know people even now in those situations.<\/p>\n

Trust me…abuse\u00a0isn’t okay<\/em> in my book. \u00a0And if it’s okay in anybody’s book, they had a deep problem that is probably unfixable.<\/p>\n

But abuse is out there. \u00a0Much of society turns a blind eye. \u00a0I don’t.<\/p>\n

One reasons I’ve written the FBI Psychic books, particularly THE MISSING was because like most moms, I have fears of bad things happening to my kids. No, nothing ever has. \u00a0But I put my fears down on paper..I make them more manageable and I twist the bad things I see in society into a way that makes to where the bad guy is the one who goes down. \u00a0We don’t see in that in real life often. THE DEPARTED had a scene that was inspired by a real life bullying of a high school girl by some boys during her senior prom. I changed the set-up, I changed the outcome, I changed the methods of the madness, but I left the way one of the parents responded as it played out because the parent of one boy tried to act like …hey, it was no accident…her death was a tragic accident<\/em>. \u00a0My character-well, one of them, didn’t die, but the abhorrence of what they tried to do is still there.<\/p>\n

My romantic suspense that recently came out was set in Madison Indiana and\u00a0yes<\/em>, it is completely fictional, although some things I’d seen in the media – other years – did play a part in some of the things I wrote about, particularly about how people will turn a blind eye to some of the most disgusting evil in society. \u00a0Somebody made a comment along the lines of\u00a0I can’t see this happening anywhere<\/em>. \u00a0I hoped it never does, but the fact is, child abuse happens. \u00a0It happens\u00a0daily<\/em>. \u00a0It’s happening in your town. \u00a0Possibly on your street, or by people you know. \u00a0Pretending otherwise doesn’t change it.<\/p>\n

I’ve always written about some of the harsh facts of life in my romantic suspense stories and yes, in the urban fantasy stories. \u00a0Evil happens and sometimes, there is no justice for it. \u00a0When I write about it, I can find justice…I can make it happen. \u00a0I always thought this was the main reason I did it…to make sense of things that have no sense in my head.<\/p>\n

But I’ve realized it goes deeper than that and it took attending ConFusion and speaking on one of the panels to understand just what it was. \u00a0One of the panelist, I believe it was Christian Klaver<\/a>, made a comment.<\/p>\n

Horror is the most moral of genres<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sounds like a strange statement, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Horror is about hacking people up, the woman running naked into the field…<\/p>\n

Or is it?<\/p>\n

See what WhatCulture<\/a> says about it?<\/p>\n

After watching Carrie, I bet you will never pick on the underdog or weakling in your life again for fear that you will go up in a blazing inferno or be killed by flying kitchen implements.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue tells us to avoid messing around with nature lest we unleash a wave of flesh hungry undead zombies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure…they are graphic moral messages, but those messages still exist.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t write horror, although yes, some things are rather horrific. I don’t think I try intentionally to write a moral message.<\/p>\n

I don’t turn my back on the ugly things that exist in society, but what I\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>try to do is this…the people in the books I write are often broken. \u00a0And by the time I’m done with them, they are stronger–they come into my head as broken and they have a story.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to fight the stories that God gives me.\u00a0Humans are capable of remarkable things. \u00a0Some of the people that I’ve known who have lived through abuse are now free of it…and they\u00a0chose<\/em> to escape it. \u00a0It wasn’t easy, but they left it behind. \u00a0They fought free of it…some ran from it. But they escaped it.<\/p>\n

Others, sadly, didn’t get away. \u00a0Or haven’t. They are still trapped in that ugly cycle. People turn a blind eye or think,\u00a0Why don’t they just leave<\/em>…if it was just that easy, they would.<\/p>\n

But many of the stories that come to me are about broken people and during the course of the book, my job is to take that person (or persons) and make them stronger, to help them find the bits and pieces and put them back together. \u00a0And find a happy ever after, hopefully, justice or closure for whatever was done.<\/p>\n

This is what I have a voice for.<\/p>\n

I’ve lost track of how many emails I’ve gotten from survivors of abuse, be it domestic, sexual or emotional–there’s one in particular that I can remember reading her email even now and I cried as I read it. \u00a0It’s been years since I received that email and I still remember her name–that’s not just unusual, it’s unheard of for me. \u00a0She wrote of how she’d read FRAGILE…how she’d cried…and then she thanked me, because she felt like it had helped her take a step toward healing after her own abuse. \u00a0She felt that book had given her a voice.<\/p>\n

Has Kit from the Colbana books been through hell? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0Am I trying to break her? No. \u00a0What people didn’t see is that she was already broken, even in book one. \u00a0She used her sword as a crutch, put all her value in it. \u00a0Others saw that she had more worth than that. \u00a0Why did things have to happen the way they did? Well, if Kit was around to ask, you’d have to ask her, because I didn’t plan that. \u00a0I can tell you that Kit probalby won’t have an answer, though. \u00a0Bad shit happens, period. \u00a0That’s the truth in fiction as well as in reality. \u00a0Kit was never going to be a character where life was smooth-sailing for her.<\/p>\n

But I don’t plan these stories…they play out for me and I write them down. \u00a0They come into my head, \u00a0almost like a silent movie reel and I’m just the narrator. \u00a0I couldn’t have changed that ending if I tried–the only thing I could have done was written it…and not published it.<\/p>\n

Nobody has to\u00a0like<\/em> how the book turned out and nobody has to like the book either. \u00a0But I didn’t write the book just to abuse my character.<\/p>\n

I don’t carry these themes in all of my books. \u00a0My contemporaries are lighter, they’re fun and easy and sexy. \u00a0But the RS books and the UF books take a hard, sometimes brutal look at things.<\/p>\n

I don’t write about\u00a0abuse<\/em> in my books because I think it’s okay.<\/em><\/p>\n

I write about\u00a0survivors<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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