A Writer's Guide to Medicine: Volume 2: Illness & Injury

Medicine is hard.
Writing about medicine doesn’t have to be.

Struggling to write your character’s chronic illness? Need to injure a character but don’t know how? Look no further! Let physician and author, Natalie Dale, MD, be your guide to writing about medicine.

In Volume 1: Setting & Character , Dr. Dale navigated writers through the complex maze of hospital settings and medical professions. Now, the doctor is back, tackling one of fiction writers’ biggest and most important questions: how to believably injure, poison, sicken, maim, mutilate, disable, or otherwise cause harm to their beloved characters.
In Volume 2: Illness & Injury , you’ll learn: How to believably injure characters—and the treatment they’ll need to survive. Which life-threatening conditions might afflict your young, otherwise healthy character. How to describe tough medical situations, such as suicide, miscarriage, and cancer. How to avoid medical clichés and harmful misrepresentations. And much, much more!
Volume 2: Illness & Injury is packed with straightforward, practical, and sometimes hilarious advice that will transform your writing about medicine from a research nightmare to an enjoyable adventure.