What we need is advocacy: people to stand up and demand funding for cancer research be restored, for more investment in mRNA vaccine technology for cancer treatment and regular cancer testing as part of routine preventive care.
I’m a volunteer. And like all Guinea pigs, er opportunists, I represent a part of science that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention. And why does it cost so much!
The world and the character should feel like they naturally fit together. Their deep knowledge of their own reality thus helps make the extraordinary stand out. Likewise, the reader should almost immediately feel immersed in that world and see logic in the characters and their reactions.
The heroes of our fiction, of our real world, often are ordinary folk thrust into the extraordinary: and they persevere. We are the heroes we need. We are the solution to our problems.
I sat down the other day thinking, I want to find those grace notes again. There’s something missing in my way of looking at things. I still see beauty, but I don’t let it resonate. I witness moments, and while they may make me laugh or think, somehow it feels less profound.