As an author, like every author, this is one thing that we have to evaluate when writing. I know that I do because when you are writing a story, you do not need it to go too dark or not be dark enough. You have to find the right level of darkness for the kind of story that you want to write. A writer can be very dark or just a little. It all comes down to how you want your book to be received and what is kind of book you are trying to write. I write horror, psychological horror, and thrillers. So for me, how dark a book can be is very reliant on how I want my book to turn out to be. And I play around with the levels of darkness, even sometimes in the same book, this way it can give the reader a different sense of what is going on. In some of my books, I write with the idea of murder and in other books, I write more psychological darkness. But it all has a purpose when in writing, whether it is bloody or mental, each kind of darkness plays a part in writing and your characters. So deciding the level you want to use is important to the events that are to be written within your book.
What are your thoughts?
