Writing Prompt #14

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So, here’s a topic that’s at the forefront of my mind and is very difficult to talk about: illness. Be it injury or a sickness that has taken hold, the language surrounding being unwell is tired and trite. How do you make a character’s physical suffering unique and compelling? Now go be cruel to an imaginary person and give them boils or something.

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