Tag: Injuries

• Let’s Write – Injuries: Adrenaline

  

  Welcome back to the Writing Injuries miniseries! Now, full disclosure, I hadn’t intended to write a full post about adrenaline, but then I realised it has a significant impact on the physical injuries and emotions of our characters (check out the Writing Emotions Series here). It’s also one of those things that books and media…

  Yolandie Horak

  March 2, 2026

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• Let’s Write – Injuries: Sprains

  

  This post is brought to you courtesy of one of my all-time favourite FMCs, who breaks her wrist and deftly braids her hair the next morning. I cringe every time I read that part of the story. Sure, blocking some pain can be attributed to adrenaline, but that stuff wears off, and then the ache…

  Yolandie Horak

  February 2, 2026

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