10 Lethal Injuries To Add Pain To Your Writing

Here he is like promised!

My rendering style has changed a bit since I made this but I really like it. This is pretty much how he looks when Veronica meets him. I won't spoil anything but I will say he's a runaway ;p

In case you can't nread bc my handwriting is terrible,

Jeffery Woods

Jeff the killer

Runaway

Paranoid,tense, Afraid of most meds

13 years old

Just my luck.

So I injured my hand like two days ago so I have to take a pause. But the next creepy pasta character sheet is coming I promise

1.sorry for being absent for so long, I was busy with stuff. The first comic page will be coming soon!

2. Here is our main character and her best friend!

Veronica and J. D.! (The names are an inside joke pls don't come at me for this)

Veronica works as a journalist for a small paper in a City named Puramda. Just outside of the city there's a forest that almost surrounds the whole city. There have been multiple murders and missing people cases reported to have happened there. Veronica is tasked with coming up with a news headline and section about the murders. She's trying to get a lead so she can go investigate the murders. What could go wrong? (Wink)

For later purposes, Veronica is blonde with blue eyes and fair skin. Her jacket is bauge colored and her shirt is white or grey. Her pants are just denim jeans and her shoes are either black or red converse.

J. D. Is just a gray scale palette with boots. His hair is dark brown, he's paler than Veronica and his eyes are more grey-blue. He's very simple.

10 Non-Lethal Injuries to Add Pain to Your Writing

New Part: 10 Lethal Injury Ideas

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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Oh, what a waste...

The first character sheet for my first comic.

It's called Rehabilitation. This is Jeff.

A lil bit about this comic:

Contrary to what most of the fandom believes, my Au/comic has it where the creepy pastas, instead of living together and being friends, they all live on their own. Some of the pastas even have their own areas/territories. They all know each other exist, but that's about it. The characters are in the forest ,or if they have another place to go then they live there. Some feel they are meant to live in the forest so, as a result, they either found a place in the forest to live or built a place in the forest.

The characters will be a mix or canon and how I portray them. Not all of them will look and act exactly how they do canonically. Some of them will have special abilities. Some don't have houses or abilities. Though some do live with each other, most stay separate and prefer it that way. Some feel a connection with slenderman while others don't. Most fight a lot rather than communicate with one another so they tend to themselves.

I'll post Jeff's info later on.

Your art makes mine look like stick figures (I can quite literally only draw stick figures but yours makes mine look like WORSE stick figures)

how is it supposed to make me feel to be told my work brings down the stuff other people make

Just realized I never posted the plot to my comic-🤦‍♀️

Anyways I'll do that:

The Plot of Rehabilitation!

The comic revolves around A woman named Veronica who's a journalist investigating serial killers and missing people for the paper she's working for. She goes to where her lead's take her and potentially find some solid evidence. That being the killers and people themselves.

Veronica finds these killers and people (who are probably killers too let's be real it's cp) at their most vulnerable point. She has two options; Report the killers to the police and get her paper done, or give them a second chance at life and help them.

Some OC questions