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Can a character love / have sex with many people and not be shamed or considered a bad person? Does it challenge you to write a character as such; how so?
In a way, that's unintentionally become a repeated theme on the Midge Hollerin pen. For Kasey Ellis (Etiquette Empire), she's been living under a repressive regime and, as she assimilates into the Tikud Empire structure, she comes to terms with the idea that being ethically non-monogamous (ENM) isn't actually bad. It's just really frowned on in the repressive regime led by loyalists to the former Earth government. In the likely standalone book I'm publishing later this month, Following My Siren's Thorns, Eline is already ENM and so are many of the other characters she interacts with. Inside the setting, the people she encounters largely don't have an issue with it. If I hadn't run into Amazon prudery issues, I would have continued that as a series and I might have explored that a bit more.
For me, the challenge is keeping that that shame in mind in a story where I have other focuses. Now that I'm talking about it, I'll probably adjust the opening chapter of the second Kasey books because she does have an encounter with the loyalists where it would be useful to bring up their opinions of her "new lifestyle."
There can be a point in showing a world where those attitudes don't exist but there is a contrast there that is worth exploring.
#EngenderedWriting
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