{"id":2002,"date":"2019-04-24T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bernadettecalonego.com\/eng\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2019-04-24T20:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T03:16:04","slug":"gory-or-not-gory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bernadettecalonego.com\/eng\/gory-or-not-gory\/","title":{"rendered":"Gory or not gory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With every crime novel that I write I have to decide how far I want to go with violence, to what extent horrible acts are inflicted upon the victim or victims. Usually I find it better to leave it to the imagination of the reader what exactly has happened than to delve into blood-curdling details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reader wrote to me on Instagram where I raised the question: “Both! Non-gory murder mysteries seem to me more emotionally intelligent in regards to the characters and their growth through the story line. And then I love gory books because they can be pretty spooky and I love giving myself a little fright now and then.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This pretty much sums it up, don`t you think? In the manuscript that I have finished, I wanted to show more clearly and descriptive the consequences of violence for innocent people because this happens in real life way too often. I did not describe the murder itself but its marks and imprints at the crime scene. I did not want to or could not bear to be there while it happened in real time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the downsides of gory is that you cannot ramp it up indefinitely. Like a person who is shouting all the time. One gets used to it and it doesn`t have the desired effect anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think about gory or non-gory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes it is easy to tell from the cover which crime novel is gory or not gory. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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