um, no, by demons I mean monsters and not something that will leap off the page and steal your soul

[dragonyphoenix]

I'm taking a writing class and we are, as usual in these things, betaing each others stories. When I was summarizing and mentioned demons, one of the women seemed a bit freaked. Having just read her first 30 page chunk, she is VERY christian. I think "demon" to her means Satan and his minions and that she believes reading my story will be a real test of her faith.

I don't want her to be uncomfortable reading my story, but how isolated do you have to be to think that reading a story with demons  in it is something that might put your soul in peril? Although, as a plot line, that might not be too bad.

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She went wild as a child - didn't get along with her Mum - married but he died three months in, drove around the country, met this much older man who sounds very interesting and who had a huge influence on her, met some guy who'd once been good friends with her husband and married him. Problem is she's given that whole story in the first thirty page chunk so I'm not sure what the rest of the book is going to contain.

She definitely has to show rather than tell - she does it a bit but only with the characters who mean the most to her and far to late in the story to keep the reader - but it could be an okay book. A bit heavy on "God has a plan for me" for my taste, but it's not like that isn't a popular genre.