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On Saturday, July 12, 2015 at Readercon, Mike Allen, Shira Lipkin, Patty Templeton, Catt Kingsgrave, and Kate Nepveu appeared on the panel "Successfully Writing About Horrible Things." Here's how their mandate was described in the program book:

"If you're not writing horror but your plot calls for something horrific to happen to a character, how do you handle it? You might go overboard and be detailed to the point of undermining or derailing the narrative, or might be so vague that the horrific event has little effect on the reader or the story. A reader who's been through a similar experience might be offended or distressed by a description of awfulness that's lurid, gratuitous, clichéd, or bland. What strategies can writers use to help readers empathize with the characters' suffering and build stories that respectfully handle the consequences of terrible events, without falling into these traps?"