Medical Pitfalls When Killing Your Characters: Strategies to Accurately Depict Medical Fact in Your Fiction

Presented by: Jordyn Redwood
Categories: Medical | Thrillers | Writing

Killing a character on the page is easy. Doing it credibly is not. Nurse and author Jordyn Redwood draws on more than three decades of medical experience to explain where writers most often go wrong in medical scenes. This session focuses on avoiding common errors and crafting high stakes moments that feel tense, realistic, and medically sound.

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