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@valtmy Hm. That does look bad. I don’t have any access to the site anymore, but let me email Reagan about this and see what I can find out.

@valtmy Okey-doke! I hope everything goes well with your story. 😉

@seekjustice Okay, I see. 🙂 Don’t be surprised if one day I want to tap into your knowledge about brain injuries for book research. 😉

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Another option, depending on how long your character is in the water, is starvation, coupled with possible heat stroke(water reflections are not nice to stare at all day while you’re clinging to a piece of driftwood, and despite common belief, the more skin you show the hotter you will be in actuality), bad sunburns, and severe…[Read more]

@valtmy

Hmm, let’s see…

I watched a show once where a girl was stuck underwater for a while. And when they rescued her, she had some damage to her brain because of going so long without oxygen. Basically, she had trouble talking, stuttering a lot, very clumsy with her hands/walking, etc. But she did recover over time. I don’t know if her…[Read more]

@valtmy

What have you done to poor Myeongwol now!?

The other guys before me have had some good suggestions. I definitely think severe hypothermia is the way to go, assuming that the falling into the sea incident takes place in autumn/winter. It wouldn’t work in summer, I don’t think…

However, here’s a link to a page that details lifethreatenin…[Read more]

@valtmy

Ooh, great question! (And great thoughts you all have replied with as well!) This sounds like my own characters, too… 😀

I think having them weak before they fall in the water would maybe help, and then not having them in the water for too long so it would have killed them. Realistically, I do not know what era you are talking about,…[Read more]

@valtmy Oh boy… Sounds like my characters… Last year I ended up googling all sorts of odd things about drowning/helping a drowning person and through it all learned that it is illegal to get a fish drunk in Ohio.

So… My response is I agree with @ashira and @i-david , the temperature would be an easy fix, or hitting their head could be a…[Read more]

@valtmy (This sounds like my characters, lol!)  Well, your character could get sick because of being cold and wet, depending on the weather.  Or maybe hit his/her head on some rocks and get knocked around or something, just bad enough to have a minor head injury.  Those are ideas that come to mind.

@valtmy

Since it’s historical, I’d look into the temperatures of the place this happens at. While maybe he swims nist fine, the water might maybe give him something like a cold or fever, which while normal could possibly lead to death back in older days. I’d at least check it out and see if it’s possible for whatever time you’re in.

@valtmy Hmm, I’ve never really thought about it too much. I guess I just like writing #2 because I like having just a ordinary character having to do something that seems beyond their capability and offers struggles that they have to overcome. With not wanting to write #4, I just don’t think I do that well writing that type of story and making it…[Read more]

@valtmy

type 3 and 2  plus just the ordinary 4  are my favorites. I love the way they are all mixed in stories Les Mis is probably a 2 but in a way also a 3 and a little bit of 4 so yeah…

Little Woman is a great 2. It’s also interesting because  I love Historical Fiction and that is most obviously a two but it shows the 3 aspects of what we…[Read more]

@valtmy Oh, HI! 😀 I don’t think I knew you’d come on to SE. Or maybe I did…it’s hard to keep track of everybody sometime. 😉

Great topic! For reading, I really like #2 and #4. For writing, I guess I would say I mostly do #2.

@valtmy

O.K. I see. Still, how special does extraordinary mean? I guess that can be one for me that makes me wonder. Like, is it something they’re born with or something literally given/accident in the story? What defines extraordinary in a story?

Going back and reading your first post again, I’m just wondering, if you like #3, how do you write…[Read more]

@valtmy

Ooh!! I like it!! Hmm… Let’s see…

I really like #1 and #2 best because I’m a complicated person who complicates everything, so unless the ordinary story is very complicated, I probably won’t like it as much. Weirdly enough, my favorite book it #4. The Hawk and the Dove is about a bunch of monks living in a monastery, yet it is still…[Read more]

@valtmy That’s a good analysis. I was thinking something along the lines of  the Secret Agent Dingledorf series by Bill Meyers. The protagonist is more of a #2 character, but the villain is more #3. The protagonist will get home from school and then go fight crime (hence his #2 persona), but the villain (I think) is seen trying to go shopping or…[Read more]

@eden-anderson

Yeah, it’s a great song!!! I have a few other favorites of theirs too.😁💖

Ah, thanks,  my oldest sis did grad pics for me and that was one of my favorites. ( Of course, books where nearby )Just outside the StJoseph Library. 😊

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          💕 Happy new years everyone!!

May this be a fantasti…[Read more]

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First off I want to say thank you so much for all your prayers. I h…[Read more]

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I’m glad you guys liked the Thanksgiving post!!! It was so much fun to write, I was in one of those I must write moods. And who doesn’t love fun history facts😊

Speaking of fun history facts,  I found this really cool story th…[Read more]