I have a bit of an issue with my next part of Quickstrike’s Darkness, and Poppypaw as a character.
When I originally created this story and characters a few years back, before I started writing Quickstrike’s Darkness, I had initially made the injury Poppypaw sustained paralyze her, pretty much just like Briarlight from the actual books. But now that the scene is actually here, I’m realizing I don’t actually know how to write this situation, how it’s supposed to look, and how to do it respectfully. I’m considering making her injury not permanent, or maybe more like Cinderpelt’s rather than Briarlight’s. In that case she would go through the same arc of learning to live with her injury, but it may be more natural for me to visualize and write. But before I made any final decisions, I wanted to hear the reader’s thoughts on this, if you have any.
I’ve had a lot of motivation for this story recently, when up until about a month ago I had basically ditched it for over a year. So I don’t want to wait on this any longer and risk that motivation fizzling out.