Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I am currently too tired to think of much in the way of a writerly ways but I am curious do you write about topics that make you angry? How do you handle it? Does it make you emotionally worse?

These questions brought to you by my research. Today I learned Harvard only took women into their school of medicine in the 1940s because WWII left so little men the program couldn't run and even then it was contingent on a study they planned to run to see if women could actually handle being a doctor. at this point women had been graduating other medical schools for 100 years and Harvard still believed we couldn't handle it.

I have another story out there I never finished because it started incorporating my anger at the Evangelical Christians and their mission to destroy women's rights and I abandoned it because it was making my anxiety worse and worse and would like to return to it and make that less of a theme for my own sanity.

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Comments

[spikedluv]

I've definitely included my own beliefs in a fic, but I don't think I've written about something that got my blood pumping like evangelical christianity would, but I can imagine getting so upset that I'd need to set aside the fic.

[cornerofmadness]

Same. I mean a part of us is usually in a story but I want to salvage that novel. i'll probably have to gut most of that out of the story to do it

[fauxklore]

I read a book titled The Sisters Blackwell about the first American women to become doctors. Very interesting and I probably recommended it to you before.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks yes you had. That's when I learned about Emily. ALL these years of hearing about Elizabeth and zero about Emily. Even now 50 articles into my research not one mention of her.