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How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Flatlines
Monday, February 8th, 2010
I’m happy to announce a new feature on the SFWA blog, “How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: A writer’s guide to diseases and injuries, and how to use them effectively in fiction” written by the pseudonymous Dr. Grasshopper. Dr. Grasshopper is finishing medical school student and is a science fiction and fantasy author.
We start this week with:
If you shock a flatline, I swear I will come to your home and beat you with a wet chicken.
by Dr. Grasshopper
Beep…… Beep…… Beep…… Beep…… Beep…… Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..………………Clear!………………… KA-CHUNK!!!!!!!…… Beep…… Beep…… Beep…… Beep…… Beep…………………
You know what this sounds like. You know exactly what this sounds like. You’ve heard it on practically every hospital TV show, every movie in which someone is rescued near death in a spaceship with a sickbay…over, and over, and over.
And it’s WRONG!!!
I’d like to take some time and explain why, how to not be THAT WRITER, and what you can do instead. (more…)
Tags: Dr. Grasshopper, How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends, medicine, Science-fiction, world building
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