How to Write About Chilblains

  Right after I posted the frostbite article, https://novelmalpractice.com/novel-malpractice-writing-about-frostbite/  another writer on Facebook asked how chilblains was related. Talk about right on the money! Dickens wrote about chilblains, as did another favorite author, Charlotte Bronte, in Jane Eyre. The POV character Jane writes about getting chilblains in the charity school for orphans, Lowood, during winter. (Is “Low wood” a pun …

How to Write About Frostbite

Are you writing about Frostbite? If you live anywhere the weather gets a lot of snow or is freezing cold, you’ve probably suffered mild, early frostbite. My parents’ house in Indiana was on a steep hill, so sliding down the snow on sleds or saucers was an annual event. Along with very cold, red fingers, AKA early frostbite, called frostnip. …