Leonce Gaiter's Blog - Posts Tagged "violence-in-novels"

I was asked if I feared alienating my audience with the depiction of violence in my latest novel. I was surprised because I had gone through pains to minimize the actual depiction of violent acts. A novel about a real-life group of notorious teenage terrorists who rampaged through Indian Territory at the turn of the century naturally includes violence in significant quantities. However, I took pains to minimize description of the acts. Instead, I focused on the perpetrator’s motivations and the victim’s reactions. To my surprise, though, far from minimizing the impact of the violence, this seems to have heightened it.

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