Um . . . Ouch.
I'm basically an expert on injuring myself, and those are my qualifications to write this. Anyway, this is inspired both by my talent (curse? I'm not sure) and my realization that injuries are very genre-specific. (For instance, fantasy is always the shoulder injury, or impalation, or an arrow to the knee.) But fantasy, sci-fi, action, and crime/mystery are the only genres that I could think of when thinking about injuries in fiction. So I decided to write a post about one question: where are the realistic injuries in contemporary fiction? Because this is a really important question, and it's totally integral to good storywriting. In all honesty, it was just bothering me. So I wrote about it, of course. It's really a two-part question, though. First of all, why aren't there injuries? And secondly, what is a realistic injury, anyway? For that matter, why is this even important? As to the first half, I have no idea....