Words Like Water

I make a living as a journalist and freelance essayist, not a fiction writer. So there's a difference. Most of the successful fiction writers I know cannot make a living wage at fiction; success is determined by the fact that they've been published, repeatedly. Each has to supplement that career with other jobs.

Adding an abuser into the equation cranks up the tension so much that the story can easily get derailed by implausibilities, 2-dimensional characterizations and clichéd plot devices. You will have to really think out how you want to tell this story, even if it's an old story, one that we've heard many times before, in order for it to sound fresh and wholly Fuji-Tezuka. Otherwise you will get "My character is paysted-on, YAY!"