tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post3951257604997578168..comments2024-02-18T00:11:11.490-08:00Comments on Heroines of Fantasy: On IllnessHeroines of Fantasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07169664399606524540noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-72704909756861841582014-11-04T04:39:06.667-08:002014-11-04T04:39:06.667-08:00Kim, thanks so much for this deeply moving and ins...Kim, thanks so much for this deeply moving and inspiring post. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-9136953659153071692014-11-03T14:48:59.337-08:002014-11-03T14:48:59.337-08:00Thank you, everyone, for the compliments. :)
Dian...Thank you, everyone, for the compliments. :)<br /><br />Diana, I agree with you about not necessarily feeling comfortable representing illness. That makes a lot of sense. I know I didn't really even think much about it as a writer, and I probably didn't have the proper insight to do it justice in my fiction. But even having experienced illness from the outside can give a different perspective than the usual. I don't think any of my friends are unaffected by my illness. I knew Jay Lake and wish I'd known Eugie Foster, but seeing how they touched and influenced the lives of others also offers insight into the human spirit. I know Jay's fight influenced how I deal with my own. Even discussing illness from the outsider's perspective, from the loved ones and those left behind, can enrich our understanding of the human condition, I think. :)writerknvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13606954840446684938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-73603018775693506052014-11-03T11:07:11.872-08:002014-11-03T11:07:11.872-08:00Kim,
Mark here...
Eloquent doesn't begin to ...Kim,<br /> Mark here...<br /><br />Eloquent doesn't begin to describe the power of your post: honest, integral, inspired. You highlight one of the enduring lapses in what folks like to term 'escapist fiction'. In pursuit of our ideal we forget there is room enough and a need for healthy doses of the real. This rocked.Heroines of Fantasyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169664399606524540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-89576930760422259562014-11-03T07:06:02.660-08:002014-11-03T07:06:02.660-08:00Thank you for sharing your story, Kim. I'm so ...Thank you for sharing your story, Kim. I'm so glad that you are feeling better! I have held back from making my characters seriously ill, because I haven't lived through this kind of struggle, as you have, and so don't feel comfortable with representing it. I fear I might trivialize someone's illness. After all, sometimes people get sick, struggle mightily, and yet still die. As Eugie Foster did. http://www.eugiefoster.com/eugie-k-foster-update.htm I'm glad, though, that there are people like you who have gotten cancer and survived and who have earned the right to give voice to what that's like. Diana Munoz Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02217584389824063679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-52287303371503997932014-11-03T06:28:56.046-08:002014-11-03T06:28:56.046-08:00Kim - very well said, and that last paragraph is p...Kim - very well said, and that last paragraph is powerful indeed.Chris Gerribhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484367221527860100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-16001928573242766142014-11-03T06:23:09.066-08:002014-11-03T06:23:09.066-08:00You once again destroy me with words, Kim. And I m...You once again destroy me with words, Kim. And I mean that in the best possible way.<br />I love you. I love you.<br />"This kind of strength cannot be tested by anything else; there are no dragons to fight here, just a silent, patient enemy that can only be bested by outliving it another day. This is a strength born of stubbornness. A peaceful protest. No swords, just poison, pills, pillows and the will to survive."<br />This is going on my wall. I will read it every day. I am showing it to my son, who struggles daily to drag himself out of nausea every single day. He'll like this. Thank you.Terri-Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468004163467894720noreply@blogger.com