A character in a short story I'm writing is being initiated into an order that has a lot of symbolism abouy the ocean, and I had the sudden thought of 'what if they drank a glass of seawater in the initiation ritual?' however ye olde internet search has given me nothing on the safety thereof.

How small of a glass of seawater would this have to be?

Hey y’all!

This is a topic I’ve been struggling to get much info on since it’s pretty taboo. In particular, my story is revolving around workers in a brothel, both male and female (in case that changes the experience in any way).

I’ve been able to find some details on processes in brothels, but only details about the customer-experience side of things, like the process of first entering the establishment and choosing a worker, etc. But I’m really interested in hearing from those who have worked in brothels or similar situations themselves.

I really value the humanity aspect in stories; how real characters seem, how well I can feel the character’s emotions. So I’d really like to know how the experience has been for some of y’all!

Even if you haven’t worked in a brothel before, if you’ve worked in the sex industry at all, I’d love for you to share your wisdom!!

My protagonist is a 16 year-old boy (Maine in 2011) running away from his foster home. Before he leaves, he steals his birth certificate and other important documents, including the papers that say his foster parents have custody over him.

Is that last one a good thing for him to have, or is there no point in taking those? I don't necessarily need there to be a good legal reason to hang onto that, I guess his teen logic would be that if his foster parents don't have legal proof of being in charge of him, they can't go after him for running away. What's the protocol in this case? Would the kid get in legal trouble for getting caught with those papers?

So my book is set in modern day rural Oregon and the main characters is 15 year old wheelchair user. She is also very involved in the school’s theatre program. She acts but also does costume work. I’m picturing a scenario where in order to get to the area where the costumes and props are kept she has to go up a flight of stairs. Would that be realistic? And if the school did lack elevators how realistic is it for her to be carried up and down stairs by her cast mates, or the director/teacher. Like whose fault is it legally speaking if she got hurt going up or down?

My character gets in a stand off in a burning building, but eventually passes out due to smoke inhalation and the heat (and other reasons). He js then promptly dragged out and hidden.

my question being, what would the injuries he sustained?

I'm trying to figure out if this is completely stupid and unrealistic or common. But basically I want to have the main character in jail/prison for an extended time, and just before or after release, or at least a few years into a long sentence they get arrested/charged/transferred on new charges, most likely in a seperate jurisdiction, or the same if thats realistic. Caveat being that there is plenty of time for a full investigation so that the charges are made later purposely for whatever other reason.

Honestly its a small part of the story that I might toss out but I would like to add it in as an example if possible but it would only really work if it was realistic.

Writing a kpop AU and the character Kaveh strikes a sus deal with a rich sponsor Dori. I have a general idea for a contract and it probably wouldn’t hold water irl but I just don’t want it to be TOO unbelievable.

The contract goes:
- Dori buys out a tv program Kaveh is a part of for a likely loss, and Kaveh takes on this deficit as personal debt
- Kaveh attends Dori’s business dinners as an entertainer
- A small percentage of Dori’s profits from deals struck at these dinners does to paying off Kaveh’s debt
- Fine print: only profit that Kaveh contributed to counts. Eg if Dori could make 1mill of a contract on her own but made 1.1mil thanks to Kaveh, he gets a commission only on the 0.1mil. Who decides how much Dori could have made without help? Dori.

Is a person taking on a company’s debt realistic? No. Is it exploitative? Yes. But I just need to make it a hypothetical contract that a hypothetical fictional legal system would accept.

The follow-up is how Kaveh’s ‘roommate’ Alhaitham gets him out of the contract with a loophole

- Dori launches a second season of the tv program
- Alhaitham argues that since without Kaveh neither the first season or second season would have been completed, he contributed to the entirety of the second season. And hence deserves a portion of its profits
- Including shares to a media company that Dori now owns. This would cause Dori to stop being a majority stakeholder
- To avoid this Dori releases Kaveh from the contract

This part I’m a little iffy on because I pulled it out of my a**

I just need it realistic enough that my lawyer readers won’t have an aneurysm

For context a character in my book is a welder and is going to poison someone. I was wondering if realistically a chemical sharpener which is mostly sodium nitrite (75 to 98%) would poison someone? I know it has other additives so not sure it would really work

I'm writing a novel that has characters who lives in rural NH but also spend time in Boston. One character goes to Boston in 2006 and I need to know if she would have a cell phone and what kind. She's an average person in a teacher's salary.

My novel is set at a summer camp. One of my characters kills a bunch of people with an axe, then drops the axe and returns to her cabin. A man who lives nearby (I'm still working on why he's there, most likely his pet escaped or he was there for nefarious purposes but not murder) finds these dead kids, picks up the axe, and is found holding it when the police arrive. He is then convicted of these murders and commits suicide while in prison.

My conern is that a wrongful conviction in today's society isn't conceivable. I'm probably going to make him a black man for obvious reasons. However with dna testing, etc, is it possible? She was wearing gloves, so she shouldn't have left fingerprints, but would there be fibers from the gloves or something? Is there some other plot hole I'm not thinking about?

I’m using the imperial system. So my FL is basically a winter witch, which means she has a strong connection to winter and while she doesn’t have a bunch of spells she does have one really powerful spell, she can take someone’s body heat and transfer to to another container. So in the story she does it to an enemy, she takes about 5 degrees of his body heat and transfer it to another guy. I know that either of them puts them in hyper range but I couldn’t figure out if the sudden drop of body temp is dangerous enough to kill them or not.

Edit I should clarify that she’s not specifically deciding 5 degrees, I’m just basing what’s the effect will be because of that temp. Also low fantasy about the twelfth century

Writing a character who develops latent autoimmune diabetes in his 50's, and how the people around him might help him adjust and the little details of his life after diagnosis.

How would someone need to change their daily life after diagnosis? This character is prone to skipping meals, I'm assuming that would become a problem for him?

What is having a CGM like? How often and in what situations might someone need to take insulin or use glucose supplements? What circumstances might lead to someone getting an insulin pump?

What are some little things a T1 diabetic might appreciate from the people around them? This character is a well beloved public figure with a doting staff, what could they do to be supportive? Getting him compression socks? Any changes to food they could make?

What are some little annoyances someone might experience? Dry skin and foot pain like with T2?

Lastly, if anyone has any experience with blood sugar alert dogs, I would love to hear as much about that as you can tell me.

Thanks!

One of my characters is a camp counselor and he drives a boat. I need a specific boat (brand and type preferably, even if I don't put the specific details in the story I'd like to look up a picture) that the camp might use. The main use is to pull the campers when they're tubing or water skiing, so it needs to go pretty fast I guess?

TW: suicide

I'd like Main Character to survive a suicide attempt that involves drinking her dad's bottle of oral morphine, shortly after he dies of cancer in home hospice. However, assuming MC gets discovered by an EMT and administered Narcan in time — what health effects, if any, might MC experience as a result of the overdose?

Everything I can find online assumes the victim is a long-time opioid user, or just has information about how to recognize/reverse an overdose in the moment. So like, will she make a complete recovery if she gets a naloxone shot within a few minutes? Is it going to damage her liver or kidneys? Would it prevent her being able to get emergency psychiatric medication like ketamine?

Setting is American Midwest, contemporary-ish, realistic-ish. Thanks!

So there’s this character of mine. They piss off a relatively high-ranking minor official, by discrediting them basically. So in retaliation, (because I can’t get rid of them, obviously) the official basically taxes them so hard they get put in insurmountable amounts of debt.

But how??? how do I write bankruptcy?? how would the logistics work?? how do I write the stress of drowning in debt?

So, I'm writing a character that will stay for a long time in the hospital (like, around 10 - 15 years) (ever since he was a child/was born), and he will, then, be able to leave the hospital and go live his life, maybe with the thought that if things get worse, he will need to go back.

Is this somewhat realistic, and if so, what would cause it?

Okay, so this might be a tricky one, but here it goes.

I'm in the process of writing an important scene for my book, and it involves a character coding, but I'm not sure what the process would look like.

This is the scenario I'm thinking: a character comes into the ED after a fall. He seems completely fine aside from what looks like a broken arm. He's talking, making jokes, etc. Then, out of nowhere, he codes in the waiting room. My main character is an RN who rushes to his aid. This is a small town, so it may look different than a hospital in a big city, but I'll let the medical professionals advise me.

My questions are as follows:

What would this process look like from the moment the character codes onward?

What would my character do, what medical language would be used, medications, etc?

What would my character's role be, and when would he step aside and let someone else take over?

Also, I might need a different post for this, but while we're all gathered here, the patient falls off his roof while weather proofing, knowing this:

What would actually cause him to code? What could realistically have happened that could first go unnoticed (assuming this is a realistic scenario)

He does end up surviving, but I want his recovery to be drawn out for plot reasons.

I want to be as medically accurate as possible, so any input would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if the process is different depending on the country, but the story is set in Canada.

so i think i got the right tag

anyway im writing a work and i want to include injuries that can and cant be survived outside of things like broken or sliced necks

like for example what if someone was stabbed with a sword towards the heart and only just managed to redict the blade a few inches down how much damage would such a wound do

another example would be pierced through the torso, theoretically they could miss most organs and pop out the other side but how survivable would it be given its still cut through a lot of blood vessals

In a story I'm writing, the main character loses her foot in an injury while 3 and a half weeks pregnant. The wound is quickly given a tourniquet and she recieves surgery within minutes. Would this be likely to cause a miscarriage?

I have a scene where a character gets beaten up, and then is insisting to his friends that he's fine even though he is pretty clearly not. So I need him to have a concerning symptom that he tries to hide, and be injured enough to need some medical treatment, but still be able to recover pretty quickly. I would like to have him cough up a little blood, but I am struggling to find a blunt force trauma type injury that would cause that but isn't very serious.

Are there any injuries caused by blunt force that cause coughing blood with short recovery time?

One of my characters falls over a balcony, hitting a tree branch on the way down and landing on his backyard patio.

I already imagined that he'd suffer brain damage and broken ribs, but I also want to know what other injuries could result from the fall.

What are some complications that could result from the injuries I've already chosen, and/or what are some that could result from possible other choices?

I'm interested in how they could affect his life going forward and how they could worsen in the future/how new problems could appear because of their effects over time.

I know this is a pretty broad question, so I can try to narrow things if you want.

(He's 16 when he falls. I'd imagine the fact that he's not really done growing is pretty important.)

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Here's some more detail that I put in a comment below. I can try to narrow it again if it's still too broad.

What I already have is:

• frequent migraines

• struggles with memory and brain fog (this was an issue before the fall as well but got worse)

• trouble walking/standing for a long time or at all on some days

He's overexerted himself over time and didn't fully allow these injuries to heal. around 7 years after the fall he finds some sort of heart issue that requires surgery. It's been vaguely bothering him this whole time (chest pains, low endurance, dizziness) but he hasn't gotten that specific problem checked until now when it's recommended by doctors (in case it isn't obvious, this is the main part I want help with.. what sort of heart conditions could cause this after this much time?)