How to write sickness

Link to text format Welcome to the Sicktember 2021 prompt list! Sicktember is a month-long, multi-fandom prompt event that is taking place in September and is focused on sick characters and their...

Sick writing // character tips

I was laying silently on the bed listening fairly carefully to every word that was being said. I made a snoring noise to signal to him I was still "asleep." He continued to talk until around 2am and he stayed in the hospital room sleeping on the floor by my bed. I woke up and patted his head to wake him up......

How to describe pain in your writing

This is my third post on character writing, putting my BA in Psychology to work. Well-developed characters are the key to a book readers can't put down. This post will focus on how to believably write characters who are suffering from an illness, and abilities authors often get wrong. 5 tips to writing characters with illnesses or special abilities based on Psychology. 1. Be careful writing about character's with diseases if you are unfamiliar with them. Schizophrenia, for example, is a…