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Sitting down about to start editing the rough draft of Moral Hygiene, I suddenly found myself at a crossroads.<\/p>\nSitting down about to start editing the rough draft of Moral Hygiene, I suddenly found myself at a crossroads.<\/p>\n
Background:<\/em> Moral Hygiene is an old piece that I'm reworking.<\/p>\n Originally, it was significantly shorter and ended just after the initial horror, with just a hint at what was to come.<\/p>\n Sort of a let-the-reader-imagine-the-most-horrible-outcome tactic, which in turn makes the impact of the story as varied as the number of people who read it.<\/p>\n Now, I've ripped apart the original version, added some additional character motivation and back story, and now – it's time to make a decision.<\/p>\n Do I move forward with the story as-is? Or do I switch protagonists during the rewrite?<\/p>\n I know, I probably should have considered this question earlier. In fact, I did, but I think I got caught up in living out my girl-slasher fantasies while I was slicing and dicing the story apart.<\/p>\n So, how do you decide who gets to shine in the spotlight? Which is a scarier read? A story coming from the terrified mind of the person that is having horrible things happen to them? Or the disturbed individual that is doing the terrifying?<\/p>\n I'll have to get back to you on my decision.<\/p>\n But which would you rather read?<\/p>\n [NWC] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which way do I go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,88,92,89,90,373],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-antagonist","tag-dilemma","tag-moral-hygiene","tag-pov","tag-protagonist","tag-works"],"yoast_head":"\n