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RE: Violence and Brutality in Fiction: The Ink Well's Stance

in The Ink Well3 years ago

Is it possible to include the case of people dying without including murder? Maybe death by sending them to bring something, or just natural death instead of violence. Maybe Mr A is helping Mr B to bring something important and death took him away...or more like this. Can this be allowed?

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Hell @cool08,
Thank you for your question. It is not always easy to know when the line on violence is crossed. Certainly people can die in a story. What we don't want is killing, murder, mayhem. We don't want graphic descriptions of violence. We don't want assault against women and children especially. One rule to help decide whether the line is crossed might be this: Would you tell that story to your grandmother? Would you be comfortable describing that scene to your grandmother? We are a family-friendly community. If a story is not suitable to read in a family situation, then it is not suitable to publish here.

We hope this helps. It's great that you want definition. That's why we published this blog, so there would be no misunderstandings.

Looking forward to reading more of your stories.

Thanks for the answer you have given. Now, I have known where to go and where not to write on....