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oxfordtweed) wrote2011-03-07 09:24 pm
oxfordtweed) wrote2011-03-07 09:24 pm
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I'm up to a naked shower scene in the latest instalment of Sex is Boring. One in which I would have to describe John's shoulder scar.
Based off of what I already know about such things, I realised I'd have to do a bit of research into it, since his scar is always described quite inaccurately in fic (standard description tends to be that of an exit wound from a very large round that had required extensive skin grafting, which would be fine and dandy if not for the fact that this description tends to be coupled with memories/deductions of the bullet being dug out, thereby leaving no exit wound).
After looking at countless photographs and reading accounts of surgeons, physio therapists, and victims dealing with GSW to the shoulder, I found that I had been put off writing the shower scene. Well, put off isn't quite accurate. I'm bored by the shower scene now, and found the photographs and blog entries far more interesting than the reason I needed to do the research in the first place.
Whoops?
Based off of what I already know about such things, I realised I'd have to do a bit of research into it, since his scar is always described quite inaccurately in fic (standard description tends to be that of an exit wound from a very large round that had required extensive skin grafting, which would be fine and dandy if not for the fact that this description tends to be coupled with memories/deductions of the bullet being dug out, thereby leaving no exit wound).
After looking at countless photographs and reading accounts of surgeons, physio therapists, and victims dealing with GSW to the shoulder, I found that I had been put off writing the shower scene. Well, put off isn't quite accurate. I'm bored by the shower scene now, and found the photographs and blog entries far more interesting than the reason I needed to do the research in the first place.
Whoops?