Get a Merck’s Manual or just peruse medical databases or watch House. However you get the information, I find that delving into the perverse ways God screws us over can really take your writing to another level.
I had a plot problem in a story because I wanted something interesting to keep a man from getting on a plane to attend his brother’s funeral. I found something exotic and X-files wierd for him to suffer and voila, interesting things ensued.
It’s a ghastly world. Babies are born with two heads and people have strange perceptions of the world, like that it’s a happy place, for instance.
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