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The AC confessional
RokofAges75:
Another confession I thought of...
One place I look when I'm researching for my medical dramas is blogs, because a blog written by someone who's gone through the same thing your character is going through can help you get both the physical stuff (all the gory little details the medical websites don't tell you and how various procedures and side effects actually feel) and the emotional stuff (what goes through your head when you're dealing with something like this). I usually will just stumble onto an entry of some random blog in my googling that helps answer whatever question I had, but once in awhile I will get sucked in and start reading and following the whole blog.
I did this as I was writing Curtain Call, found this guy's blog who had a similar kind of cancer to what I gave Nick. His blog was actually really funny, the way he wrote about things, so I ended up reading all of it and then checking back on it from time to time (it wasn't updated very often). I stopped going to it after a certain point in Curtain Call, but something made me think of it sometime last year, and I went to check on it and saw that the guy had died. :( It was sad. And then I was like, is it weird that I feel sad for this stranger whose blog I've been trolling? But I guess while it may be weird that I was trolling it in the first place, it's not weird to feel sad for someone who's died, whether you knew them or not.
mare:
^ very true and sad :(
Jean (my friend who died a few years ago) used to keep a blog and hundreds of people used to visit all the time, even people she didn't know because she had a very rare form of cancer and was great with words and making things funny instead of scary!
mare:
related to that one!
Whenever using anything psychological for my stories which is basically all of them! I would consult with my sister and ask her hypothetical questions like, what might happen if you are in a traumatic situation where you're asked to torture your best friend? How would your mind deal with something like that? LOL And her answers were basically the therapy sessions Brian had in It Stays. I even named the therapist after my sister!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 15, 2013, 10:09:42 AM ---^ very true and sad :(
Jean (my friend who died a few years ago) used to keep a blog and hundreds of people used to visit all the time, even people she didn't know because she had a very rare form of cancer and was great with words and making things funny instead of scary!
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Aww... a sense of humor is so important! My friend Lisa was like that too; she had a blog, and you could see her great attitude throughout it, even when things were bad. I don't know that she got that many visitors outside of people who actually knew her, though.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 15, 2013, 10:12:27 AM ---related to that one!
Whenever using anything psychological for my stories which is basically all of them! I would consult with my sister and ask her hypothetical questions like, what might happen if you are in a traumatic situation where you're asked to torture your best friend? How would your mind deal with something like that? LOL And her answers were basically the therapy sessions Brian had in It Stays. I even named the therapist after my sister!
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That's really nice that you can do that with your sister! If I tried that with my sister, she would give me a weird look and be like, "What the fuck is wrong with you? You are so gay!" ("You are so gay!" is exactly what she said to me when she found out why I really wanted to go see This Is the End with her. Okay then? LOL)
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