Wendy Jessen had a great post with tips on how to write these tough topics. If you do these topics justice, your readers will respond accordingly. You may decide to write about some of these trigger topics because they are part of life. Voices in our society rise with the call to address lingering social problems such as rape culture, racial inequality, gender discrimination, and mental illness (just to name a few).
But it’s also because of an increasing social presence and conscience. Ideally, isn’t this what every writer wants, to have our readers be deeply affected by our stories? Readers are more sensitive and also more vocal than they were fifty years ago, and this is a natural result of social media and increased social connections. However, you might reasonably assume that what you’ve chosen as characters’ primary struggles or fears will resonate on a very personal level with some readers who have had similar or at least analogous struggles or fears. Given the wide range of experiences in your readers, I posit that there’s no way to predict all of the elements of your stories that may serve as triggers. Triggers may also be deeply rooted in a phobia of varied or unknown origin (e.g., fear of dying, fear of blood or violence, fear of spiders, fear of being alone, and more). Triggers could be related to a damaging experience in one’s past (e.g., war, sexual abuse, sexual assault, domestic abuse, eating disorders, suicide, hate crime, bullying, racism, sexism, and more).
Some of these issues may be trigger topics: subjects that generate strongly negative emotional responses. My stories always include hard and stormy issues (This post explains why it helps to write darker topics for my characters). The following quote from one of my favorite reviews summarizes this nicely: I love writing happily-ever-afters (HEAs) for my characters, but in order for them to get there, they have to go through quite a lot.
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