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Started my second novel this week, open question for the fiction readers out there...do you enjoy novels that are chronological or ones that reveal the past in pieces as you move through the main plot?
 
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bignewt said:
Started my second novel this week, open question for the fiction readers out there...do you enjoy novels that are chronological or ones that reveal the past in pieces as you move through the main plot?
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Depends on what you're trying to do with the story. If it's a thriller do it as pieces
 
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Devo182 said:
This was posted by our resident doctor on 247.
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NawlinsAg reminding everyone these are his collective thoughts, not to be taken as absolute truth, disclaimer necessary:

In uncertain times, we search for facts to provide comfort and clarity. Throw in the power of Texags.com and I should not be so dumbfounded by the run this is getting.


My first expanded lost draft (thanks again MacBook Touch Bar) contained the appropriate hedging, disclaimers, and uncertainty the current understanding of this pandemic deserves. Some of the more concise, unproofread, hastily rewritten original post (OP) presents itself as more definitive instead of "what I think I know". For this, my apologies. I am not performing clinical trials. I am not involved in cohorting and analyzing data. The academic physicians involved in ER, Infectious Disease and Pulmonary Critical Care are likely (hopefully) way beyond my understanding of Covid 19. Furthermore, I fail to appreciate any additional benefit I could provide to Hospital Administrators who have been preparing and communicating with each other for months; or for some already combating this daily.


Basically, several state medical licensing boards are temporarily loosening their independent practice regulations on NPs, PAs, and to a lesser extent Medical Students. I wrote the OP as much for me to collect and organize my thoughts, as it was to provide a jumping-off platform for providers who may find themselves in an ER-like setting and unknowingly be treating Covid 19 patients or will be treating them soon enough. If any of it helps some of my colleagues hit the ground running then that is something too.


The OP was a summary of thoughts from being emersed in Covid 19 for weeks, reading as much as I can, and following up on my own patients. It is not my intention for this to be taken as dogma. I do not have the answers or the algorithm everyone is searching for. I was merely looking to point the handful of people I thought would read it in a clinical direction best I could. What I think I know evolves every day with the presumption it may very well end up markedly different once this pandemic is better understood. I do not know when this crisis will ultimately be arrested, however, I maintain resolute that each one of us can help make that happen. Stay home. Be safe. Find a way not to have to visit grandma.


Thank you to all the well-wishers and good luck to us all.



Sincerely,


NawlinsAg
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bignewt said:
Started my second novel this week, open question for the fiction readers out there...do you enjoy novels that are chronological or ones that reveal the past in pieces as you move through the main plot?
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Yes.








Ok, sorry, as long as it is not hard to figure out WTF actually happened, I like the past revealed in bits and pieces.
 
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bignewt said:
It's more of a character piece and the past reveals some of the motivations.
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Be innovative and write a chronologically backwards novel. Something only @TrippieRedd would comprehend on 1.5 marijuanas.

When readers say they don't get it, you can be smug and respond, "well, clearly it wasn't FOR you".
 
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Devo182 said:
Be innovative and write a chronologically backwards novel. Something only @TrippieRedd would comprehend on 1.5 marijuanas.

When readers say they don't get it, you can be smug and respond, "well, clearly it wasn't FOR you".
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Ha that was kinda my first one told in different first person narratives, I don't think people really embraced it. Lesson is don't be Faulkner out of the gate.
 
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Well, virtual home poker games are a thing now. Some buddies and I set up an online poker tournament in our own "Poker Club" using PokerStars.

Meanwhile, my wife and her girlfriends are playing games using video and chat on Zoom.

This is social life on a Friday night, 100 years ahead of when I imagined it would come to this.
 
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bignewt said:
Started my second novel this week, open question for the fiction readers out there...do you enjoy novels that are chronological or ones that reveal the past in pieces as you move through the main plot?
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Chronological. I actually bought your book, just not read it yet. I'm currently reading The Legion series by A.D. Starrling.
 
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Fun coupon VOL said:
Ha please. The more government gets involved the less efficient it will become.
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The only thing they are efficient at is spending other people’s money. Have a read of the 900+ page “stimulus bill”. Every department in the entire federal government just got their pockets lined. Most having zero to do with the pandemic.
 
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