This is a question to all of the authors out there.
I began working on an origin story for the how the monster girls in my main story (The Runesmith Chronicles) came to be.
To be honest its horrifying, not in the sense that it's badly written, but in that it is truly horrifying. The events that happen in this first chapter will drive the MC's actions and decisions throughout the rest of the story/book so I felt I needed to give good descriptions and good representations of his reactions.
I did a good job I think, to the point that I don't want to go back and proofread it because it means reliving those moments through his eyes, again.
Horror is not my genre, I don't enjoy it, I don't read it. Yet here I am with a chapter that would fit nicely tucked into a horror novel.
Just curious if there are others that have done similar things, not necessarily with the horror angle but perhaps dipped a toe into a genre or scene you didn't necessarily like for the sake of driving the story?