Scenes are never just a series of sequential facts, there are negotiations and compromises, misdirections and sacrifices – yes it's all scaled down to the one scene, but there is still the thing the character wants conflicted with the thing the character has. This focuses almost completely on the mind, so you can take it wherever you want to.Īll scenes have more than one thing going on. If you're totally uncomfortable with blood and gore and you just can't get it to work in your writing, try psychological torture. You don't have to do a play by play of every single action, but to show the reader why your narrator is so terrified, you should give the reader a taste of what the narrator sees. If the torture scene is happening to someone else and your narrator is watching, focus on the narrator's absolute horror and disgust at what they see. If your goal is to both portray the goriness of torture to send a message AND show your narrator's pain, and especially since you said yourself you haven't really witnessed anything gory or violent, you should watch a horror movie or at least read up on torture. If the torture scene is happening to your MC or your current narrator, instead of focusing on all the blood and gore which can make a lot of readers queasy or uncomfortable, focus on the narrator's agony.
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