revision as healing
I've been emailing back and forth with an unofficial beta-reader. Unofficial, but she's willing to read and comment and for that, I'm deeply grateful. She's a reader, not a writer. Bonus! She was sad to report that, at the end of part one, she did not like my female main character one bit. I was glad to hear it because that was my intention. I starting thinking back over how hard it's been for me to make her as fully faceted a character as the male MC. Then something the beta wrote about when she stopped liking Anna made me realize that, because of a very violent experience, Anna is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder which was not recognized, particularly for crime vicitms, unitl the 80's, the decade after this story takes place. I did a little quick google and she has many of the long list of criteria found in the DSM . Although she spent a short time in a mental facility, the stay was adjudicated and she resisted what little treatment there wa...