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Drawing on a past experience for my writing
2 years ago
General
As noted, I’ve started writing again. The stories, or flash fiction stories I most recently posted, one of them is a work in progress. The other one, I could flesh it out some more, but I’m focusing on Winters’ Thaw first.
It’s a work in progress. this is a work of fiction that is close to my own heart, and examines the challenges that same sex couples face, the misunderstandings that occur, and the reactions of some who are less than secure in their own fur, so to speak. I’ve also drawn on some real life experiences for some of the stories events. One such event relates to hypothermia, which I nearly died of once out hiking in the winter. I’m lucky I was with a group of skilled hikers, who knew how to build a fire.
Drawing on my own personal experiences with hypothermia. I had a very close brush with it while hiking, and was literally numb from the cold and if it hadn’t been for my hiking companions guiding me to a fire they built, or if I’d been alone, I would not be here. I remember trudging through the snow once hypothermia had it’s claws in me and stopping, facing a rise that i’d have to try and climb, and just standing there.
I think one of the people in my party gently guided me by the hand, but that part is blanked out. I remember it still being light out when I stopped, and the next thing I recalled it was after sunset when I was being directed to sit on a log near a fire, which they had started illegally, but it saved my life, literally. One of them was sitting next to me, hugging me to share body warmth. I was very close to passing out or falling asleep, and not far from death. Probably the closest brush with it I’ve had thus far in my 58 years.
We were many hours away from any towns, and back in that day we didn’t have cell phones like people have now, so it was just us vs the elements.
Hypothermia is nothing to play with, and the scary part of it is as you get deeper into it, you just kind of start to fade away, your thoughts and movements become sluggish and you want nothing more than to go to sleep, which worsens the situation. It’s scary stuff, but it has given me the knowledge first hand of the symptoms and stages.
It’s a work in progress. this is a work of fiction that is close to my own heart, and examines the challenges that same sex couples face, the misunderstandings that occur, and the reactions of some who are less than secure in their own fur, so to speak. I’ve also drawn on some real life experiences for some of the stories events. One such event relates to hypothermia, which I nearly died of once out hiking in the winter. I’m lucky I was with a group of skilled hikers, who knew how to build a fire.
Drawing on my own personal experiences with hypothermia. I had a very close brush with it while hiking, and was literally numb from the cold and if it hadn’t been for my hiking companions guiding me to a fire they built, or if I’d been alone, I would not be here. I remember trudging through the snow once hypothermia had it’s claws in me and stopping, facing a rise that i’d have to try and climb, and just standing there.
I think one of the people in my party gently guided me by the hand, but that part is blanked out. I remember it still being light out when I stopped, and the next thing I recalled it was after sunset when I was being directed to sit on a log near a fire, which they had started illegally, but it saved my life, literally. One of them was sitting next to me, hugging me to share body warmth. I was very close to passing out or falling asleep, and not far from death. Probably the closest brush with it I’ve had thus far in my 58 years.
We were many hours away from any towns, and back in that day we didn’t have cell phones like people have now, so it was just us vs the elements.
Hypothermia is nothing to play with, and the scary part of it is as you get deeper into it, you just kind of start to fade away, your thoughts and movements become sluggish and you want nothing more than to go to sleep, which worsens the situation. It’s scary stuff, but it has given me the knowledge first hand of the symptoms and stages.
