Prescribing Stories
Speculative Medical fiction + writing craft from a PharmD who treats stories like patient cases. Free stories, twice monthly
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Spider-Man’s Body Is Not Just Mutating — It’s Stressing Out (opens the original)
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👋 New here? Prescribing Stories pairs speculative medical fiction with clinical explainers for writers who want fictional bodies to have consequences.POSSIBLE SPOILER RISK AHEADPart One: The Narrative PremisePeter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day is not just getting stronger. He’s becoming less stable. The movie frames his body changing alongside his isolation, loneliness, and mounting pressure: black eyes, more aggression, increased strength, organic webbing, and symptoms that worsen after t
What I Built While Rebuilding Prescribing Stories (opens the original)
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Hi , July was productive: I published three Clinical Explainers and built a Work with Me page. The new explainers are my way of giving writers a clearer look at the clinical logic underneath them. I’m still developing the next Case File, an influencer-focused story, but it needs more time before it earns its clinical stakes. Case Files and S.O.A.P. Notes are coming back; I’m not dropping the fiction side of this project.This month taught me that I need a smaller, repeatable system: write more ef
Why Solo Leveling’s Healing Should Hurt More (And What Your Power Fantasy Is Missing) (opens the original)
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👋 New reader? I’m Noel, a PharmD writing speculative medical fiction about what happens when healthcare meets the uncanny.🔍 What you get: Case Files (finished stories), S.O.A.P Notes (my drafting process), and Clincal Explainers (storytelling craft)Subscribe nowPart One: The Narrative PremiseSung Jinwoo starts Solo Leveling as the weakest hunter in the room: always one bad dungeon away from death. Fights scale well,
What Bane’s Venom Actually Does to a Body (And What Your Fight Scene Is Missing) (opens the original)
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👋 New reader? I’m Noel, a PharmD writing speculative medical fiction about what happens when healthcare meets the uncanny.🔍 What you get: Case Files (finished stories), S.O.A.P Notes (my drafting process), and Clincal Explainers (storytelling craft) .Subscribe nowPart One: The Narrative PremiseAround the start of 2025, Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta decided to rewrite Batman for a new generation of
What’s Actually in the Vial? (For Writers Who Keep Their Characters Alive Too Easily) (opens the original)
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👋 New reader? I’m Noel, a PharmD writing speculative medical fiction about what happens when healthcare meets the uncanny.🔍 What you get: Case Files (finished stories), S.O.A.P Notes (my drafting process), and Clinical Explainers (storytelling advice) Subscribe nowThe Pharmacology Behind the Fiction: When Infections Turn VileA wound can look survivable on the page but can still lead someone to their
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