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I was thinking up a back-story for one of my female leads (my thinking consists of pacing around a room or sitting on the toilet and then trying to make sense of it later...)
I'll keep it generic and brief but basically she's of royal lineage and as a matriarchal society she is prioritized to the throne over the King's two sons. She's kidnapped by bandits at a young age, has never met her mother and father, and lives in an underground city of thieves, pretty naively so. This is starting to sound really cliche but like I said I was keeping it generic
I've got the king (her father) visiting a different continent (~20 years before my main narrative starts), he needs to impregnate a slave girl unwillingly (her mother), she steals a ring off of him and he needs to track her down over the course of (however long it takes to find out you're pregnant 2000 years ago, does anyone know?) when he finds out she's with child and lets her keep the ring to sell, which becomes important later on.
I'm not sure how I'm going about this. How can I describe this happening without going into such explicit detail to stop the book being appropriate for, say, 14 year olds?
First of all I'm thinking of having him drunk or drugged or something then he needs to get this woman pregnant and find out she is pregnant before he returns back to his land. This happens before the book starts so I only need to mention it in passing (although I would like to write a short story about it eventually because one of my other characters ties into it) but I still need to imply what happened.
How do you write these kinds of details while keeping it strictly PG? I haven't read the Twilight books, but (SPOILER OMG) Bella gets impregnated by Edward yet it is a teen book. How did Meyer go around this?
I'll keep it generic and brief but basically she's of royal lineage and as a matriarchal society she is prioritized to the throne over the King's two sons. She's kidnapped by bandits at a young age, has never met her mother and father, and lives in an underground city of thieves, pretty naively so. This is starting to sound really cliche but like I said I was keeping it generic
I've got the king (her father) visiting a different continent (~20 years before my main narrative starts), he needs to impregnate a slave girl unwillingly (her mother), she steals a ring off of him and he needs to track her down over the course of (however long it takes to find out you're pregnant 2000 years ago, does anyone know?) when he finds out she's with child and lets her keep the ring to sell, which becomes important later on.
I'm not sure how I'm going about this. How can I describe this happening without going into such explicit detail to stop the book being appropriate for, say, 14 year olds?
First of all I'm thinking of having him drunk or drugged or something then he needs to get this woman pregnant and find out she is pregnant before he returns back to his land. This happens before the book starts so I only need to mention it in passing (although I would like to write a short story about it eventually because one of my other characters ties into it) but I still need to imply what happened.
How do you write these kinds of details while keeping it strictly PG? I haven't read the Twilight books, but (SPOILER OMG) Bella gets impregnated by Edward yet it is a teen book. How did Meyer go around this?
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