Anyone had nightmares writing your book?

[Laurel A. Rockefeller]

Hello all, I was wondering if I am alone in this.  I'm writing book two, "Ghosts of the Past" as a murder mystery.  Book one was very much a character-driven political adventure romance exploring gender politics in a feudal society in another galaxy.

But book two (perhaps not unlike George Lucas's Empire Strikes Back) is much darker.  I'm finding it difficult to sleep.  I have to kill off several characters and constantly write all this mysterious stuff.  I'm finding it messes with my mind.

I don't know if this is just because I'm a survivor of some pretty heinous violence and the work is just stimulating repressed memories -- or if it's the genre itself that messes with the author's mind.

I know it's natural to at least unconsciously draw upon your life experience, but I was really hoping it would not play with my head like this!  

Why are my villains scaring me?

Do you think as a writer this is good or bad?

[Mitch Bensel]

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