How do you come up with these despicable concepts for books? I've read your Beast series and currently reading Wake. You write in a way like your taking horrifying thoughts out of common people minds. Who might be to embarrassed about their dark thoughts. But you write it like it's poetry so it seems acceptable reading it. And I love the way you twist a person who deeply loved but now horrifically hates together.

D.S. Wrights Hello Sönïa,

thank you so much for your compliments! I'm happy to answer your question. Sorry for this long message. It got a little out of hand. ;o)

When I write, it's more like remembering something than sitting down and making things up. Every person thinks about harming and humiliating someone else for whatever reasons. In my opinion, it is absolutely normal, and also healthy to allow yourself to vent a frustration that way, and unburden yourself from the strong emotion someone has created through their actions. The difference is whether you act on your emotions or not. But is not acting on them really 'good' and acting on them truly 'evil'?

This might sound terrifying or strange, but I put these thoughts into books. I am not ashamed to write about them, because I know, everyone has these thoughts, and many people would like to express them. But they don't because they feel ashamed. If I can help people feel less ashamed about their thoughts by writing about them, that's even better!
However, not all of the deeds are what I would like to do someone, or hope would happen to someone.
I also wonder about what a person could endure to save or heal someone, or rather to prove their love to someone. People, and women especially, have been known to endure things beyond comprehension to save a loved one or prove their love.
I also want to celebrate the strength women have. That is why I will never write a weak heroine. My ladies might start out as dumb, petty, naive, or unlikable, but they will always be the true hero of my story and not the damsel in distress.

I'm absolutely fascinated with people's minds, their motivations and aspirations. I love to create characters and explain their behavior and ideals, without regarding them as 'good' or 'evil', because no one is 'good' or 'evil'. Every person has selfish and selfless tendencies, acts or doesn't act on their emotional impulses, and it's their experience, talents, and their upbringing, which make them lean into what society deems as 'good' and 'evil'.
I think a huge impact is whether someone is able to handle their emotion or not, and when these feelings are so intense that you cross the line of not being in control over yourself, or rather completely being taken by impulse and instinct, shutting down reason or logic.

I love writing dark books and writing about twisted characters, because I like to find a logic and realistic explanation for why there are people out there one would really regard as 'evil' as in sadistic, psychopathic, or sociopathic.
What has happened to a person who becomes a killer?
What has happened to a person that loses control to wrath and kills someone?
How does someone handle that loss of control?

Or, in White's case from TBAM:
why would a scientist experiment on humans?
Which reasons would he name?
What kind of mindset would a human being need to deem his insane actions as acceptable?

Or, like in "Blood": what would turn you into a serial killer and not make you want to become a cop instead, when you seek justice? And: what is justice? What is vengeance? Where is the line? One could argue forever.

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