Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Made it to PA. It was a lovely day for a drive.

I'm curious, how do you all show comfort in fiction? My characters are all SO touchy feely. I'm like why oh why is my brain like this? I don't even like being touched yet my go-to is always a comforting hand on the shoulder/arm/wrist. I find that strange and wondered what others did to show comfort. And after the day I had (the drive was fine but everything else was not) this is about as much thinky thoughts I can come up with.

I wrote an interlocking series of five stories of the exact same length for getyourwordsout's Yahtzee challenge. If you want to see them, you can find it starting here. It's the Owl House

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Comments

[under_the_silk_tree]

That's me too. I am not much for physical comfort, but I love to write about it. I write a lot of hugs and bed-sharing for comfort in my stories.

[cornerofmadness]

You know I do too with the hugs (something else I personally don't like) and now that I'm writing young teens, I've been doing a few slumber party sort of bed sharing

[cmk418]

Generally, the hand on the shoulder, squeezing the arm, etc. is my go-to. In my most recent fic, I had one character rub the other one's back (sick-fic, the injured party has food poisoning).

Non-contact comfort gestures - a phone call, text, a gift of some sort of object the injured party could cling to. If they're trying to forget someone (or not dwell on memories), a day out away from the reminders. Making art- sculpting would be good. Something physical- a run out with a friend, dancing, or even boxing. Basically whatever would get the character into a familiar setting where they feel loved and/or in control.

[cornerofmadness]

I find it curious how many of us have the same go-to physical comforts

I really like your non-contact comforts. Some of those I would not have thought of

thanks