Whump Fic Question

[kristen999]

I'm stuck on a road block in this one chapter I'm writing so while I wait for the magic muse to come up with an answer, I thought. Hey let's have a poll. This is just for my personal interest in future projects.



[Poll #1098735]

Comments

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

I try to make the medical stuff in my fics as realistic as possible. I'm not medically-trained but I worked for a couple of years in admin in a major hospital so I'm familiar with terminology and I understand a lot of the basic concepts etc.. the rest comes from internet research. I do like reading well-written ER/infirmary scenes and I would be very interested to a read a detailed/accurate surgery/ER/infirmary scene - so many writers gloss over this aspect (because of the level of detail required, no doubt) and go straight to, as Sholio said, the somewhat overdone waking up/intubated/ice-chip scene etc. I tend to be very detailed in my writing and find it hard to skip over stuff and be brief/concise - :lol: - and the medical stuff very much interests me.

I enjoy medical scenes in TV shows and would love to see something similar in a good SGA whump fic. For example.. in the episode Beyond the Sea of The X-Files, Mulder is shot and instead of jumping straight to him recovering/waking up in a hospital bed with Scully by his side etc, we had a wonderful scene of him arriving at ER and being rushed into theatre, with Scully watching, her face a picture of misery and fear. That short scene added so much tension to the episode and from the medical details (the EMTs and Drs calling out his condition and mentioning how much blood he'd lost etc) we really got a feel for the urgency of the situation and how critical his condition was. It made my whump meter go practically off the scale! :D

Anyhooo... lot of waffle to basically say that yes, I'd love to read medically detailed whump fic. :)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

As I said I'm on the fence. I co-wrote a CSI fic which was very heavy on the medical aspects of recovery and I like to read those and write them form time to time. In "Honor Bound" I tried to balance the need to move the plot forward while not skipping too much of what happened to Sheppard.

I like detailed medical stuff, I like to read them and write them...I just find trying for different creative ways of doing it daunting. I used to write in the ER fandom where it was expected at least on my e-group list to write accurate trauma scenes.

I'm a fan of one shots that are medical heavy, hence why I like to read your whump fics. Sometimes in a whump fic that's say an eppy tag, I eat up the type of drugs, tests and procedures, to me it adds realism. That why I liked your season 3 tags of whumpy fics..you stuck close to canon and you tried to stay realistic. Your POV jumps around a lot and that drives me crazy :-P But I still love it.

BTW you still have lots of opportunities for this season *hint hint*

This poll was just to get a gauze of people's feelings on trauma and ER scenes because as much as I like to write them, I find it difficult to keep them creative.

I'm seriously thinking of doing an all Doctor fic which would include surgery hence why I was curious about that.

Thanks for your input.