Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Mar 16 2010
Health and its stories
The whole health care discussion in the U.S. is providing tremendous material to fiction writers. If you write science fiction you can be thinking ahead to what care (and the cost of it) will be like down the line. If you delve into historical fiction you might be taking a look at health practices of the past and how they compare to present-day care and compensation. If your story is novel-length you will undoubtedly touch on health and/or health care at some point, no matter what time period or location you choose for your characters. Health is one of those things that affects each of us in powerful ways, which is probably why the whole battle to change the system has been so passionate and has pulled people through a whole herd of emotions. We've all seen someone we love suffer. We've all see the suffering of large groups of people when it comes to lack of nutrition, natural disaster, war, epidemics or even political oppression. Health affects everyone and almost everything. Including health issues in your novel in some way is probably going to be a must. The only question is when, how and how much?
posted at: 17:33 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
The whole health care discussion in the U.S. is providing tremendous material to fiction writers. If you write science fiction you can be thinking ahead to what care (and the cost of it) will be like down the line. If you delve into historical fiction you might be taking a look at health practices of the past and how they compare to present-day care and compensation. If your story is novel-length you will undoubtedly touch on health and/or health care at some point, no matter what time period or location you choose for your characters. Health is one of those things that affects each of us in powerful ways, which is probably why the whole battle to change the system has been so passionate and has pulled people through a whole herd of emotions. We've all seen someone we love suffer. We've all see the suffering of large groups of people when it comes to lack of nutrition, natural disaster, war, epidemics or even political oppression. Health affects everyone and almost everything. Including health issues in your novel in some way is probably going to be a must. The only question is when, how and how much?
posted at: 17:33 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
