In a totalitarian society controlled by government, where a person's life is worth nothing and basic human rights are nonexistent, an unremarkable government worker gets arrested on false charges of political crime. His wife is summoned to the secret police service and is given a choice - if she performs "certain duties" willingly with the commandant, who is secretly obsessed with her, he will let her husband go. She keeps refusing, her husband's interrogation and torture escalates in monstrosity and cruelty in order to break her spirit and force her into the arms of the devilishly handsome but corrupted and twisted commandant. In this sick and perverted story, the rules of right and wrong are challenged and discarded with each passing page, leaving the reader increasingly aghast and disgusted, but unable to turn away.
And then, I started reading a shojo manga called "Black Bird", which is as twisted, sick, and sexually perverted as shojo manga can be. Anything goes - handsome villains, sexually insatiable vampires, killer demons, as long as a teenage girl is involved in the middle of all the blood and gore and sexual tension.
So I thought, "What if my novel were a shojo manga?" How free would that be! Here I am, trying to rationalize the setting, the politics, the characters' reasoning, mentally fighting with the future critics who will try to find fault with any weakness in the plot. Now, if my novel were a manga, everything would magically fall into place!
Wife - a damsel in distress.
Commandant - a handsome, cruel villain.
Husband - a useless, but cute and pitiful good guy.
Setting - a fantasy totalitarian world in an undetermined country and future.
Sexual tension - escalating exponentially.
Blood/torture - elaborate and lurid.
If only I could draw! >_<
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