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shadaras ([personal profile] shadaras) wrote in [personal profile] auroracloud 2020-04-04 12:43 am (UTC)

I have written a couple hundred words of traumatizing my characters! :D

Physical grounding is so much fun in scenes; I find that it's easier the more active they are in the scene. Sometimes I end up using physical sensation as a way of showing that characters are too fucked up to be able to think, though, so I don't consider it quite so separate from the 'drifting away' that you mention. (This may be why I find the blocking of writing combat and/or sex so interesting, to be fair.)

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