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Got some weird little plot detail you need to throw out a question about? (mine below)

To anyone who's ever worked in an ER (or regularly hears stories from those who have), does it actually happen that a car will drive up, put someone who's injured out on the sidewalk, and drive off? How common is it? Like, say, once a month, or once every six months, etc.

Almost never. More likely in a big city. To be fair, most people in ERs would not notice. There is usually a entrance.

Depends a couple of things: 1. How large the city is. 2. Degree of injury (there are people who get dropped off by friends all the time if they have a relatively minor injury). 3. Layout of the ER lobby.

A good layout will have the doors exactly opposite the triage station so that whoever is on duty can see someone approaching the door and assist if necessary. This is not the case in all instances. In a few hospitals I've known - or have had friends work in - there are definitely shady drop offs since there is no one watching the door.

Definitely dependent on layout. Might also depend on who's watching the door. Nobody seemed to give a hot shit when I came in on crutches desperately searching for a wheelchair when I had to visit my dad shortly after his fall.

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Can't say I've ever seen someone do that at our ER (in nine years here), gossip travels hella fast in a hospital, so I'm sure I would have heard about it if someone just dumped someone off.

We do have a sort of 'drop off' area outside the ER entrance though, but that's usually so people don't have to make the sick/injured person walk from the parking lot. I've never seen or heard of anyone dropping someone off and leaving them unwillingly/unknowingly though.

I worked in an ER for a little over a year, and I never saw that happen. I work in a larger city as well. It probably does happen, but not very often.

To those of you who like Natasha Romanoff: how do you like her written? What are your headcanons? i find it so hard to get het voice right.

AHHH I love writing Natasha but in part bc I find it hard to do so? I try to find moments that seem to destabilize her a bit/knock her Calm, Cool, and Collected mask to the side a bit, and think about why that might be.

I also headcanon that, in the MCU at least, Russian/Soviet/Cold War history played out differently, or else Natasha would have been, to go by Cap 2's timeline, a seven year old KGB agent. Among many other snarls.

I find it hard for the same reasons! (and I do need to drop her cool).

I'm still slightly holding out for her being older than she appears, even in MCU.

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I *do not like* her being an uptight fem-nazi (like, getting all over Steve's ass because he opened a door for her) or when everyone is 'terrified' of her, like she's some omnipotent goddess. It's silly. She admits she only fronts about knowing everything *and* she's a total nerd (so eager to tell Steve about the War Games movie!)

So - super-competent spy and assassin, yes, with a dark past, yes, but she's nerdy and flirty and into pop culture. That's...uh...what i like to read when I read about her. :)

Anyone know of a book or website with good writing exercises? Like one's meant to build your skill in particular aspects, not just get you writing in general.

In school, we were assigned Writing from Start to Finish. It gives break downs and tips for writing basically any kind of story from any POV. And it's pretty cheap too. I got mine online for like $15.

Okay, I'm hoping to get a variety of opinions on what you feel is in-character for Hux. What kind of headcanons do you like/dislike for him? What back-history do you see for him? What scares him? What is he like in a relationship? In bed? What is the appeal of this character to you?

I'm having trouble nailing him down so I'd love to hear what you guys think. Feel free to offer recs for fic you think did a good job with him.

Genderless characters. What to do about pronouns? What are some examples you've seen or used?

I like ancillary justice and their "Everyone is female" approach.

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There's always the trusty "they"

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I've been using 'it' but in this case the beings I'm writing about are monstrous and malleable beings that were created out of all the bottled up potential in the world being released wrong. I wouldn't use 'it' if I wasn't working with something so... non-human as characters.

I echo the suggestion for 'they'. I've also seen 'one' used to rather good effect. Like 'one self', 'this one', 'one will'...

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I've used singular they in one instance, and Spivak pronouns in the other occasion I wrote gender-neutral pronouns. The first was relatively near-future and about an agender character, the latter was a society that was from a legal standpoint gender-neutral.

If someone is writing you something really short, how much detail do you expect? Someone asked me to write a fic where Sauron takes on an apprentice in the forge. I only promised 500 to 1000 words. I know nothing about forging and I'm not sure just how much research I'm going to need to do to write something that will be just a short ficlet.

500 to 1000 words, there's no time or need for an info-dump. I'd personally be expecting something character-focused. If you're going into any details on the forge, I'd go with impressionistic rather than technical.

Might be kinda late to get any responses, but I need a reason for my antagonist to have attacked his mentor, and then run off.

(I'm also not sure where he's been before he enters the story at the climax.)

He thought the mentor had done something wrong.

The mentor HAD done somthing wrong.

He was possessed.

He had taken the bad drugs.

As for where he's been, if there are authorities in the world, he might have been hiding from them?

I'm sorry, but without knowing more about the characters in question and the context, it's hard to make suggestions that are guaranteed to make sense in your story. You know these characters, presumably. You know how likely or unlikely it is for the protagonist to attack a person, and his mentor specifically. What do YOU think would motivate him to do such a thing?

Maybe he needed to keep his mentor from finding out something questionable about himself? ( As for what would be questionable, a detailed analysis of the mentor's prejudices and personality might be in order to figure that out properly. )

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