17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
Writing Excuses
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How to Write a Character With Chronic Pain
The length of your sentences and the sounds of your words when a character as in pain can be impactful and useful. The other tool that I tool and challenge I find is that when you have a character that has chronic pain, it is part of their normal. So keeping it alive on the page so that the reader remembers that, because otherwise the reader will default to their own,. which is as we've discussed, not matching.
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