#writing ref

It hurts before and during every storm, rain, and snow

Stiff knees have a hard time balancing your weight, meaning going down stairs is not only more painful but far more difficult than going up. I don't know the math, but thems the rules

Many conditions don't solely come with pain and fatigue, but also sudden muscle weakness. Something that wasn't heavy yesterday now is!

Pain can range from dull and persistent, to sharp and spotty. From personal experience, muscle pain hurts the least, then joint/bones, then neuropathy. Of course they can all hurt a ton

Migraines also cause dizziness, nausea, light sensitivity, snowy vision, blurry vision, and seeing halos/aura

Your pain tolerance becomes stronger since you're always in pain

This also means describing pain is much more difficult

Inflammation turns pressure into pain, even down to one's salivary glands stinging from the pressure of salivating

Standing is exhausting

Sitting is less exhausting

Horizontal time is the least exhausting

Sleep disorders become more common

Spending time on the same task for too long equals pain and stiffness

And I mean this in every part of writing.

I’ve spent HOURS stuck on sentences I didn’t want to revise, chapters I didn’t want to admit didn’t fit into my narrative, even whole PLOTLINES that I had previously mapped out.

The point is, if you’re stuck because it feels wrong, it feels wrong for a reason.

Hi All,

This is NOT an April Fool's joke even though I'm posting it April 1st.

I have a new project I'm working on, probably the biggest I've ever attempted. It's a book about writing low resource/field medicine.

I'm hoping to rough draft a chapter a month, and I want to be held accountable. The chapters are too big to fit into posts, so I'm posting them to a Google doc.

New chapters drop the first of the month. You can read them here:

Note: This is for when there's a distinct main character, not a self-insert

This is a really interesting question to me, because in prose I prefer 3rd Person/Past tense but the majority of visual novels I play have it as 1st Person/Present, and then CYOA novels are mostly 2nd Person/Past

That being said, there is one moment that shocked me. Like jaw-dropping totally caught me off guard. During the last episode of the season, while Loki and Sylvie are fighting. The writing, the cinematography, the acting—all freaking PEAK. But what gets me the most is when Sylvie accuses Loki of just wanting another throne. And he says, “I don’t want a throne.” And I’m thinking, ah. Another old romance trope, huh? “I don’t want X, I want you.” Classic. Even though it’s always been slightly off, because it is ultimately self-centered, it gets the job done, right? Shows that there’s been at least some character growth.

But Loki, my freaking goodness, turns the whole thing on its head.

“I just want you to be okay.”