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How Injuries Work in Stories
Increase Realism.
Raise the Stakes.
Tell Better Stories.
A ScriptMedic Guide
by
Samantha Keel
Even Keel Press
This book and all information contained within it ARE NOT intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition. This information is not to be construed as medical advice.
This books purpose is to give writers a more realistic glimpse into the way bodies, injuries, and healthcare providers actually work, and the treatment that theoretical, fictional characters may or may not receive. Much of the information is my best guess and what I can learn from (necessarily) brief research. Do not do this shit at home.
If you choose to ignore the fact that this book is intended to discuss fictional, not-real, hypothetical medical situations, by reading it, you agree to hold me completely blameless in any consequences that should occur.
Do not read this and think that you can save a life in the street, or that you can avoid seeing your doctor because I said so, or that you can treat anything whatsoever. I will laugh at you. If you have a medical emergency, call 911 (or the emergency services number in your area). If you are sick, go see a doctor. Do not try to treat yourself or anyone else based on anything in this book.
This eBook expresses my views alone and does not reflect the views of any employer, agency, hospital, or training organization where I have worked or trained.
Seriously, folks. Please dont sue me. That would suck.
Part 1: Welcome to Maim Your Characters
June, 2017. Location Undisclosed.
My name is Samantha Keel, and I want to help you write better stories.
This book was born in the parking lot of my old EMS station on a rainy day in October of 2016. I was staring down the throat of another long, difficult day at work and thinking about my life.
The truth is that Im a paramedic because I got lost on my way to medical school.
The truth is I absolutely loved where I ended up.
But sitting in that parking lot, I was thinking back further. Deeper. Thinking about who I am and what I love. Buried among all the things that I love, I kept coming back to two fundamental truths: I love to help patients. I also love to tell stories.
(Ive wanted to be a writer since I was tiny.)
The one pebble rattled around my skull, and so did the other. Then they touched, and they sparked, and I had an idea: I could teach writers how to get the medical aspects of their stories right, from injuries and illnesses to medical staff and facilities.
In less than an hour the ScriptMedic blog was born.
The idea, as far as I can tell, is a fairly novel one, and it caught on like wildfire.
If this were a movie, this is where wed see the training montage: the blogger building her page, reaching out. Finding hope from a mentor (in my blogs first week, Neil Gaiman was kind enough to tell me that it was a good idea and to have fun with it. It is, and I am, and Im eternally grateful.)
There were posts that echoed around Tumblr (one over 15,000 times). Within 8 months I had over 10,000 rabid readers consuming my posts.
There was a terrifying blitz when 30 bloggers decided, independently and within 72 hours of each other, to mimic my blog for their own area of expertise.
That deluge of bloggers were soon forged by the fire of organization (and a little drama) into an actual bound-for-goodness family, with bloggers Ive never met as some of my closest friends.
This book was born as a part of that glorious happy mess in that dismal parking lot in , . Because in a way, this book is one facet of the soul of ScriptMedic.
The general mission of ScriptMedic is to give writers a better understanding of the way medicine works.
The specific mission of ScriptMedic is to help writers tell better stories.
This book is, to date, the best way I can think of to accomplish that second mission.
So sit back, grab a warm beverage (or a cold one, if thats your speed), and buckle up. Lets turn on the lights, set the sirens to Stun, and maim some characters!
This book is going to teach you how to use injuries effectively in your stories.
Were going to start by deconstructing what a story is, starting by breaking down the five pieces that make a story work.
Then were going to look at how that structure works for injury plots.
Were going to look at a Beginning, a Middle and an End, and break those down into six easy-to-consider sections. One of them is even optional!
Were going to talk about some ancillary issues, like minor injuries, scars, and injury psychology. Were going to talk about pain, and how to write about it, too.
Were going to talk about the relationship between injuries and genre.
Were going to break down some famous (and less-famous) examples of fictional injury plots to see what works and what doesnt.
Were going to walk through how to build your own injury plot in a way thats accurate and respectful to those who may be living with the injuries you seek to give your characters. I even provide a smorgasbord of ideas to get your brain brewing, and a follow-along guide to injury creation.
Before we begin, though, I want to set some expectations.
This book wont fix a story thats broken overall. (If you need that kind of advice, pick up a copy of On Writing (Stephen King), The Story Grid (Shawn Coyne), or Story Genius (Lisa Cron). All three are brilliant in their own way, and all of them can help you tell better stories.)
Theres one other point to consider: even the best-constructed injury plot isnt worth the paper its printed on or the pixels it occupies if we dont care about the characters.
There are a great many reasons to injure a character in your story, and a near-infinite variety of ways to do it.
In fact, there are probably as many whys as there are hows. Heroes are constantly facing obstacles: psychological, emotional, social, political. Mountains to cross and dragons to slay, lovers to woo and wrongs to correct. So why should you use an injury plot? What does an injury story do for your overall understanding of a character and the story as a whole?
Injuries tell us who we really are.
A significant injury can cause a disproportionate amount of despair. People mourn the loss of their abilities, even temporarily, the way they might mourn a loved one.
Pain is an awful thing, and the first thing it does is make us afraid of more pain.
And so we see characters who manage to transcend their pain and discomfort, who overcome the extra obstacles and challenges, as heroic.
Its one thing to climb a mountain.
Its another thing entirely to climb that mountain battling a broken wrist, or with pins and plates holding together your ankle.
Injuries can be a lens that allows us to peer into who we are, what were really made of. When the chips are down, can we confront our fear of pain and pull through? Can we look beyond the disability and see a bigger future? Do we allow our fears and anxieties and our grief to overcome us? Or do we find a middle road, some compromise or change, that allows us to accomplish the same goals in different ways?
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