Poisoning Your (Fictional) Characters feat.
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Let’s talk about using poisons in our writing. People have been using poisons as long as we’ve been around, but there’s a lot of misconceptions around them, no doubt fueled in part by stories like Romeo & Juliet. @RachelEmmaShaw joins us to talk about how poisons work, the different effects they can have, and how to write about them. Plus, some tips on inventing your own!
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We definitely ended up on a government list for all the research that went into this video. Although, what writer hasn’t? 😅Have you included poisons or venom into your stories? Tell us about them in the comments!
Being on government watchlists is a mark of honour for fiction writers...the more watchlists you on and the more categories you raised flags in, the better.
If you haven’t ended up on a list somewhere for your research, you’re not researching correctly.
I actually wrote a very short story where, around the end, the narrator said something about taking his final taste of a lethal drink in reference to how poisons tend to take multiple doses depending on which one it is. It was less than 500 words to my memory, but it did use its short length well based on how people reacted to it. It was a stand-alone story so far, but i did decide to put something at the end saying that it can be shared or something like that as long as I'm credited to my memory, and I'm not sure how it would impact something else connected to that story so I'm not sure what to do. But I decided it because I decided to abandon the story but didn't want to just delete it out of attachment to it, so I posted it on facebook.
Very informative. The snippet at the end made it for me. 😂
Agreed! 😂
Some good stuff to think about ^_^ I wish the video was longer though, we've really only scratched the surface here.
I want my character to ingest poison that leaves then in coma for 1and a half month. How to use it?
I want to use arsenic but the problem is if it induces coma it will surely give death but that's not what I want. Coz the entire plot is revolving around the place from which the antagonist got the poison. I just don't understand how to make it effective so it just induces coma and not death. I really need help In just that part