It’s easy to forget where a story takes place when you’re deeply engrossed in a character’s struggle. But place–like character and plot–is one of the essential elements of a story, and, if you ignore it or treat it like a simple backdrop, you’ll miss the chance to deepen your reader’s experience of your story. Every story must have a setting, a place where the action occurs. “Setting exists so
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A little while back someone in the office pointed out this interesting piece about the rise of AIDS among young men in NYC. I started wondering what could be done and I took my query to Mary Ann Cohen a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the co-editor of the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry. Cohen wrote me back with the following illuminating response.
During a century when rapid advances in medicine led to near eradication of infectious diseases throughout much of the world, the emergence of HIV infection in 1981 led to an unexpected crisis in health care that has not yet resolved. (more…)
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