I like Discord, but I’m equally at home with email or collaborating over google docs

I wouldn’t mind being a part of this, although I’m writing this as I’m coming off an insane 12 hour shift at the hospital. I have a lot of free time when I am off though. And ye, I have Discord.

And my email if we do it that way is jdwong188@gmail.com

I have pigeon brain right now
I have been awake…[Read more]

The truth is that most people, even Christians, are or…[Read more]

I know this reply is coming two years late, but… thank you for the hug.

Heart of Glass

I was born with a heart of glass
Which glitters in the morning
And magnifies my mourning
Bared to wind and woe and weald
Transparently I loved her
I stored up for her my love’s treasure amass’d
I promised her, my love would never yie…[Read more]

You’re very welcome! While this topic is normally about technical or clinical subjects you don’t want showing up in your search history, it’s absolutely expected that queries will branch off into tangents as knowledge is shared. If you have more questions about world-building, history, politics, psychology, whatever random questions you…[Read more]

It’s important to find your the right fit for your writing style! Not everything I say or give to you as advice is going to necessarily work with your vision, it’s simply my judgment based off the experience of what has worked for me for the stories I’ve tried to tell.

1. Semicolons

It’s true, I have been several times convicted…[Read more]

So I have to amend my previous statement on ‘and’ & ‘then’; the main case for using them together would be to add the sensation of a tangible pause in between the two conjoined actions. However, that can be achieved by other means, such as by a semi-colon or by additional description.

(A) The young woman’s mouth worked…[Read more]

I may not be the foremost expert on prose, but I’ll take a gander at answering your questions and lending my own verbose expertise, whatever its meager worth might amount to. I by no means wish to hijack your style, but invariably my suggestions for rewrite / revision are probably going to very much reflect how I personally would…[Read more]

A random aside, horses love the taste of beer, as it essentially resembles pre-digested barley / wheat / hops, their preferred feedstock. Horses also have an extremely high alcohol tolerance, even accounting for their comparative size (3-8x the weight of an adult male human), as their gastrointestinal tract is specialized in digesting…[Read more]

Pneumonia is a significant possibility due to aspirated water – that is, if he inhaled any water during the initial splash, or if he was under water long enough that he involuntarily gasped for air and inhaled water instead. Natural water isn’t purified and there isn’t really any telling what…[Read more]

Yes! Midwives have known for thousands of years “the kiss of life” to revive newborns who weren’t breathing well on birth. While some overly academic physicians might have “interesting” ideas about resuscitation (such as covering the body in hot coals or pouring hot tea down the throat), your average barber surgeon / village healer…[Read more]

So, it’s been a while since I drank – I quit a couple months ago, as alcohol was just making me depressed, less productive, and draining my wallet – I had stopped drinking for fun, and had by that point just been drinking as a crutch for mental pain. But that’s its own story.

I cannot say I’ve been black out…[Read more]

So, you’re probably aware of this, being stabbed in the back is not healthy. The torso in general doesn’t have a lot of “good” places where the injury would not be too severe or long lasting. It may be counter intuitive, but the best place would be on the victim’s right side and upper back, piercing the lung. Particularly since you…[Read more]

I’ll try not to repeat from our fellow contributors. Adrenaline is a massive component of pain sensation in severe injuries – people have taken dozens of rounds from handguns and not dropped till minutes later or until a fatal shot completely put them out of commission, and soldiers have sometimes fought on with missing…[Read more]

@skylarynn

So, a background in weaponry:

As @rose-colored-fancy pointed out, a longsword is not a heavy weapon. A typical arming sword, or your classic one-handed sword, about 2-3 feet in length, would weigh in around 1-1.2 kilograms, or 2-2.5 pounds. This is the definitive “sword” of the Early and High…[Read more]

A rare beta-reader!

Be prepared to be swamped with supplicants.

By the way, I don’t think we’ve met. I tend to lie dormant for weeks / months at a time only to suddenly answer a flurry of weird medical questions on this one particular thread in Fantasy Fiction Writers….
Anyways, I guess I’m primarily a fantasy fiction writer with a…[Read more]

Aha, a nice, simple question. 🙂

The basic principles of treating bone breaks have changed little over the millennia. Doctors then as now knew to immobilize the limb with splints or a cast and apply traction to give the bone break adequate space to heal the break and generate new bone tissue, and knew of herbs in their era which could…[Read more]

I have seen your previous question, I just haven’t found time to answer questions until very very recently. I.e., today.

And in summary – you are a scary person, and the reason this thread exists. 🙂

Yes, a bandage soaked in the poison would be an effective means of delivering it, assuming it has a non-porous exterior, so…[Read more]

I have. It’s part of my cultural heritage. And – without meaning any rude contrariness – as tragic and revolting as it is, it is a subject very much worth studying and researching in its full detail. There is a reason why the issue of Japanese remilitarization is an issue for every Asian country in the Pacific; the atrocities of the…[Read more]

Ah, my mistake! I didn’t see the second follow up question. Or maybe I did and I just forgot about it. Thank you for asking again!

A warning in advance – this is some gruesome material. In a nominally related tangent, the Russian word for hospital, Больница (Ballnitza) literally means “house of pain.”

Regarding medieval skin grafts.…[Read more]

Seems almost poetic. One of the most fatal…[Read more]

Sorry I took so long to make a reply. Life has been crazy, and sadly this response will be a bit less exhaustive than I’d like. Thankfully, Ms. Ryddle here has also chimed in with her own good sense and research, to which I shall add with my own obscure knowledge of how people die. 😛

Poisons have a huuuuuge variety of…[Read more]

Inability to feel pain will help him at least psychologically cope, and will make the task of changing his bandages easier. Doesn’t really reduce the risk of infection, but it will make it somewhat easier to care for himself.

Regarding hypertrophic and keloid scars, hypertrophic scars are defined as excessive scars growth which…[Read more]

This question is actually perfectly timed since burn care is on my exam for this week anyways. I’m going to cover this first from a modern nursing perspective and then from a medieval historical perspective, including procedures, materials, and mindset. Forgive me if I repeat any information you already know.

A warning – the full answ…[Read more]

The rumors of my demise have been exaggerated. Not by much, but I am indeed still around. Just. Super. Busy. Studying harder than ever before so I can pass this semester and then go on to earn my RN. A lot of my subject matter has been super esoteric or crazy in-depth stuff – neurologic disorders and cranial trauma, burns, shock –…[Read more]

Well…

On 7/10 – 7/11 I think I got a combined 4.3k written for the finale of Ivory Tower…

@Deeprun I’M STILL WORKING ON CHAPTER 4, DON’T EAT ME  🙂

I have a character who struggles deeply with sin nature, guilt, and temptation of suicide. So, this is a rather dark subject, and uncomfortable for me as well, who has struggled similarly. But I would appreciate second and third eyes on the subject to help me write ethically, not just…[Read more]

I’m sorry I delayed so long! I couldn’t think of anything good, and then suddenly I was just goofing around today and it came together today.

I couldn’t find wherever you listed their facial features beyond hair and eye color, so I improvised – and I have no idea what the plot of your story is, so I made up a little caption for it in my…[Read more]

Oki dokes, at least one of you asked for my version of Myrrha, and after going through all of my older drawings of her and being either gravely disappointed or else wisely deciding not to share that particular version of her, I have a draft that sorta satisfies me.

@deeprun, you might recognize some details of this from her…[Read more]

Do you have an email I can send stuff to? I can send you info on the setting and we can talk about making your character and introducing her/him into the story.

I meant to reply this morning, and per usual – forgot.

But absolutely bleeding fantastic work! Erhard looks more heroic, frontman-esque than before, and as the others have said, the shading on their armor is positively stunning. I cannot complain in the slightest. 🙂

@anne_the_noob14

Thank you! I’m glad that my descriptions are su…[Read more]

They’re amazing! I might have pictured Erhard a little younger and maybe a little leaner, but it definitely looks representative of him as an adult, at least more towards a grown man, and I love the detail on his armor!

Also I’m super jealous of how well you managed lining up Fritz’s eyes – the sidelong gaze has always been the hardest…[Read more]

Blond, dirty blonde.

Fritz is darker haired.

My general critique to your story, as it would have been far too difficult to read were it compressed into a comment box. We can get more specific if you like, but I thought you might be most efficiently served by a general initial overview.
Hope to…[Read more]