azzy123

@Aysha07 Old? Me? Pfftt never :P College is actually okay, so chilled compared to high school :) What college you planning on going to? xx

PageTurnersPen

I have some awesome story ideas, but finishing them out and doing them justice...yeah.,I hear you. 
          
          I wrote the first chapter of an interesting werewolf story a while back. The new human Luna is physically healed from her captivity in a vampire brothel, but her slavery left deep mental and emotional wounds. After a suicide attempt that nearly killed both her and her mate, the former alpha looks for a psychiatrist familiar with the reality of the supernatural. They are few and far between. The only one he can find available... is a vampire. 
          
          I don't know how to write about her recovery process. I finally figured a workaround... The therapist would blood bond with her mate and work through him and their mate bond to help her without actually meeting her in person. 
          
          There would be issues...he might sometimes sound or act a bit like a different person. Then there would be the mysterious guest or visitor she never met and people didn't want her to even hear about. Suspicion of her mate having an affair....
          
          Yeah, those sorts of things I can imagine and work in, but therapy itself? How exactly would the psychologist be trying to help her? It would be a key part of the story, the journey through the past and her own doubts and fears, advances and setbacks... But I don't know enough to make her therapy sound credible or realistic.  
          
          When should the vampire declare her job finished and leave? Will the Luna ever get over her racism against vampires, or will her experiences permanently taint her view of all of them?

azzy123

Sounds like a good storyline and I know what you mean about writing around your problem. 
            
            Trying to sort one issue out always raises another ten questions and makes a simple storyline complex. Trying not to stray too far from the plot while sorting out your storyline issues becomes another difficulty in the writing process. 
            
            Writing about her therapy would be difficult but you’d have to do a great deal of research on psychology and how psychiatrists help people in similar real world situations, minus the vampires of course. 
            
            I guess the beauty of writing is that you get to answer those questions or your character develops into someone who you feel would react to a situation in a certain way. I hope I can read your story sometime.
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