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Cool, gonna hurt my little doodads a plenty

10 Non-Lethal Injuries to Add Pain to Your Writing

If you need a simple way to make your characters feel pain, here are some ideas: 

1. Sprained Ankle

A common injury that can severely limit mobility. This is useful because your characters will have to experience a mild struggle and adapt their plans to their new lack of mobiliy. Perfect to add tension to a chase scene.

2. Rib Contusion

A painful bruise on the ribs can make breathing difficult, helping you sneak in those ragged wheezes during a fight scene. Could also be used for something sport-related! It's impactful enough to leave a lingering pain but not enough to hinder their overall movement.

3. Concussions

This common brain injury can lead to confusion, dizziness, and mood swings, affecting a character’s judgment heavily. It can also cause mild amnesia.

I enjoy using concussions when you need another character to subtly take over the fight/scene, it's an easy way to switch POVs. You could also use it if you need a 'cute' recovery moment with A and B.

4. Fractured Finger

A broken finger can complicate tasks that require fine motor skills. This would be perfect for characters like artists, writers, etc. Or, a fighter who brushes it off as nothing till they try to throw a punch and are hit with pain.

5. Road Rash

Road rash is an abrasion caused by friction. Aka scraping skin. The raw, painful sting resulting from a fall can be a quick but effective way to add pain to your writing. Tip: it's great if you need a mild injury for a child.

6. Shoulder Dislocation

This injury can be excruciating and often leads to an inability to use one arm, forcing characters to confront their limitations while adding urgency to their situation. Good for torture scenes.

7. Deep Laceration

A deep laceration is a cut that requires stitches. As someone who got stitches as a kid, they really aren't that bad! A 2-3 inch wound (in length) provides just enough pain and blood to add that dramatic flair to your writing while not severely deterring your character.

This is also a great wound to look back on since it often scars. Note: the deeper and wider the cut the worse your character's condition. Don't give them a 5 inch deep gash and call that mild.

8. Burns

Whether from fire, chemicals, or hot surfaces, burns can cause intense suffering and lingering trauma. Like the previous injury, the lasting physical and emotional trauma of a burn is a great wound for characters to look back on.

If you want to explore writing burns, read here.

9. Pulled Muscle

This can create ongoing pain and restrict movement, offering a window to force your character to lean on another. Note: I personally use muscle related injuries when I want to focus more on the pain and sprains to focus on a lack of mobility.

10. Tendonitis

Inflammation of a tendon can cause chronic pain and limit a character's ability to perform tasks they usually take for granted. When exploring tendonitis make sure you research well as this can easily turn into a more severe injury.

This is a quick, brief list of ideas to provide writers inspiration. Since it is a shorter blog, I have not covered the injuries in detail. This is inspiration, not a thorough guide. Happy writing! :)

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931 "The Agony" (1906-1917) Oil on canvas Symbolism Currently in a private collection

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[shhitskinkytime]

I....i think thats just primal...

is there a word for when you're a masochist but you need to be able to fight back about it. like you can only have sex with me if you defeat me in single combat first.

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Word List: Pain

beautiful words with "pain" for your next poem/story

Afterpain - pain that follows its cause only after a distinct interval

Bepaint - archaic: tinge

Depaint - archaic: to delineate in colors or words; obsolete: to adorn with color or painted figures

Drypainting - sand painting

Greasepaint - a melted tallow or grease used in theater makeup; theater makeup

Impaint - obsolete: paint, depict

Painsworthy - worth the expenditure of diligent care and effort

Paintpot - a receptacle (as a pot, pail, bucket) for holding paint

Paintress - a female painter

Painture - obsolete: painting

Papain - a protease in the juice of unripe papaya that is used especially as a tenderizer for meat and in medicine (as in the topical debridement of necrotic tissue)

Sandpainting - a ceremonial design (as of the Navajo Indians) made usually of colored sands on a flat surface

Underpainting - preliminary painting

Unpainful - not painful

Unpaintable - not paintable, especially: not suitable for artistic representation on canvas

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

More: Word Lists

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torture: the concept of reality seems to mould itself around pain.

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La La Land…

https://x.com/eserspov/status/1855951311386050962?s=46

Will I ever be free from this torment?

[drebspells2022]

Me, but with writing.

this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

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Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Notes on your dramatic exit from the house party”

[Text ID: “OH YOU DO LOVE THEM / YOU DO / JUST NOT / IN THE WAY THAT LETS BOTH OF YOU LIVE”]

[boghermit]

People complaining about Veilguard's art style are so funny. You wouldn't last a minute in the asylum where they raised me.

[asmimir]

Pov Theon's apology by Leshy

(All designs belong to @aveloka-draws)

This was made in exactly one hour and 47 minutes

[worthless-misery]

Dear diary...

The fact that I'm still "alive" in 2024 just feels like a huge mistake...

[voidic3ntity]

as I walk through the forest under the shelter of dusk moonlight,

my eyes reflect imagery which seems to surface from darkness:

blood soaked clothing, human figures hanging from thick ropes,

their eyes drawn so deeply inward within their lifeless craniums;

the essence of horror lingering through passageways of spruce.