Monday: Illness
How do you deal with illness in your stories? How often do your characters get sick, and in what ways? What kinds of medicine are there in your world?
Most of the time my stories are focused on mental illnesses and past traumas. The characters get many physical injuries and countless psychological ones but I rarely have characters actually get sick.
With Naomi (the only character I've used here so far) she is very healthy and the epitome of physical health (for most of her story at least) and so she never gets sick. Her fiance on the other hand is not so lucky and dies because of her poor health. In their world (which is Earth a few hundred years from now) medicine has continued to progress, but disease has evolved right along with it.
Most of the time my stories are focused on mental illnesses and past traumas. The characters get many physical injuries and countless psychological ones but I rarely have characters actually get sick.
With Naomi (the only character I've used here so far) she is very healthy and the epitome of physical health (for most of her story at least) and so she never gets sick. Her fiance on the other hand is not so lucky and dies because of her poor health. In their world (which is Earth a few hundred years from now) medicine has continued to progress, but disease has evolved right along with it.