Fi Lewis

Surgical trainee by day. Writer by night. Drinking coffee every possible moment. She/they.

[fi-lewis]

After a long hiatus the blog is back! This time I’m talking about reading and some of the non-medical books I’ve read that I think drs/med students/honestly most people should read! Link in bio #blog #medicalblog #reading #literature https://www.instagram.com/p/BwkLHPEANgQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ltk4w54m2gz8

[fi-lewis]

The most beautiful bride (inside and out!) and her very glamorous assistants! We’ve got ready for big events together for many years and it was so special to do the same for Maria and Steve’s wedding #wedding #cupcakes #friendship #goodfriendsdontletyougodowntheaislealone #mandelyinlove https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMPPZ6Ae35/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f9syejlto8cg

[fi-lewis]

Happy Jewish New Year! Traditionally for Jews this is a time for celebration, but also reflection on the previous year and ways to improve in the coming one. To that end I've written a new blog post www.beyondthebleedingobvious.com. A sweet New Year to you all

[fi-lewis]

The first rule of FY1 fight club is...well I guess you'll have to read the blog! It's the last of my #nearlyadoctor series AND to celebrate the end of my FY1, the name has changed! Find me at https://beyongthebleedingobvious.com #tipsfornewdocs #nearlyadoctor

[fi-lewis]

Lovely time at the Mess Ball last night with my beautiful friends, and I even got to meet the new FY1s starting at our hospital! They had a million questions, so in return here's some questions for them in this week's "Nearly a doctor" blog. Are you ready to start FY1? https://fiozinwrites.wordpress.com/ #nearlyadoctor #tipsfornewdocs #fy1 #NHS #medicine #nofilter #wescrubupwell

[fi-lewis]

Returning after an unintended blog hiatus to rep some St Mary's and ICSM pride! Have been having a challenging week and this news really turned it around. Also bonus Flight of the Conchords name-dropping if that's your jam - link in profile #blog #medicine #businesstime #stmarys #icsm #imperial

[fi-lewis]

It’s Monday morning after a lovely weekend and I’m sure very few of us want to go back to work! Sometimes work is boring, sometimes it’s difficult, but for doctors and other NHS staff it’s often very stressful. I’ve been working on this blog for a few weeks now, let me know if you love it/hate it/have any opinions #nhs #superheroes #stress #resilience #juniordoctors #medicine #blog

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[fi-lewis]

No updates for a while between nights, trying to enjoy the sunshine, and finishing off my last essay for a module. I promise there’s one coming tomorrow, in the meantime enjoy this pleasingly titled article I found “How Ha-Ha can lead to Aha!” (How humour can help learning) #yesthatstherealtitle #postgradlife #sunshine #lastessay

[fi-lewis]

New blog post, which by the power of technology mingled to post when I was asleep pre-nights! How did I do that? What is grey Wednesday? Will I throw disrepute onto my hospital and medical school? At least one of these questions is answered in the blog! https://fiozinwrites.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/all-change-please/

[fi-lewis]

Spotted in one of our ward kitchens! (It says Do not switch on the steriliser, it will blow up! One of the more ominous signs I’ve spotted in a hospital #nhs #hospitallife #medicine #thatsmetold

[fi-lewis]

I haven’t written any blogs for a while, because I’ve been away (yay!), writing 3 essays (less yay!), and on a run of night shifts (totally not yay). So here’s a personal blog post inspired by one of my nights 🌜🌟🌚 and happy grey Wednesday to my junior dr friends! #nhs #nights #greywednesday #changeover #nofilter #redlippy

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[h-brook-writes]

How the setting looks in my head:

How the description comes out on the page:

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hi i have seen a lot of people talk about how they’d describe this but the truth is that (in my opinion) there’s a lot of stylistic choices here that i just want to talk about for a hot second :) just some ways of thinking about it? that might help you get unstuck?

is your book even the kind of book that has long paragraphs of description? if you’re seeing something beautiful, you can just say, “there was a beautiful green and flowering field with a nice lake, a rolling fog, and mountains beyond” and let people make their own assumptions about what it looks like and move tf on. 

“no raquel i really like long paragraphs.” okay time to get into The Senses. imagine yourself there. what would the grass feel like underfoot? is it soft, well-watered, or is it crunchy? do the flowers smell like death or do they smell good? is that fog or the gunsmoke from beyond the frame? are the mountains something to be passed over or surveyed? walk through all the senses. i really like adding smell because it’s the one most tangibly connected to memory (look it up). if i say “the field was green and smelled of wildflowers” that’s something connected to your senses. if i say “the lake, although still, reeked of blood” this is a whole different type of story. senses matter!

on that note, think about the poetry of it. are you the person who just says “clouds” or “rolling fog”? it’s okay if you’re either! i often switch between the two, because i don’t like long descriptions in my pieces and i don’t know why. and the tone of your piece should define that. if this is looking back on a fond memory, it should maybe be airy, light, full of “gentle, sun-kissed flowers” and “lambs-wool grass.” metaphors and similes and lots of fun things. but if it’s something like … this is a place we’re spending 12 seconds in during the story, don’t? bother? wasting your time? maybe the tone is being rushed, you’re looking out a train window and only get a glimpse. close your eyes and write what 12 seconds would give you in memory - a morose “it was beautiful out there, green and full of water and fog, mountains on the border” or a weary, “out there, in the fields and clouds and mountains”. see how even a few words changes tone?

sometimes there’s such a thing as trying too hard. plopping a word like “verdant” casually in there? great. when it’s “verdant green and crimson red flowers” etc it gets really tiring to write and read. make either your descriptions interesting with unusual terms - “bloodmoon red” idk - or stop driving yourself wild with more ways to say “beautiful.” say it and move on. this is also where tone is important - “verdant green and soft, whispering red flowers” is different than “violent green, with flowers shining in bloodspills upon it”. tone is …. crucial in expression.

i personally hate long descriptions. if you read half my stories, i straight up won’t describe things, because i don’t want to. here’s what i do instead: character-led discovery. instead of the narrator walking us through it, we discover it w/the characters, making it a little less outside of the story and a little more fluid. “he sat on the verdant grass, his fingers reaching to pick one of the many wildflowers. his head tilted to let the sun on his face, watching the clouds move at the foot of the mountains beyond.” aww so sweet :)  for me this is even like. more description than usual? because honestly unless these mountains gonn be important, who cares. 

secondarily this is more what i think of when people say “show not tell” because everyone always stops at the senses but you gotta show like… how do your People interact with it. example: i’m colorblind. how i interact w/this gorgeousness is totally different. 

but then you can also like ? let your characters literally do it for you:

“It was a field,” she shrugged, “It was like, super green and flowery and shit. I don’t know. there were clouds clouding along and mountainous mountains. what do you want from me. i felt like a deer frolicking in the got damb meadow come to dip my little deer nose into the nice little lake.” she slumped over. “i’m tired,” she added.” 

literally let them talk for you. let them have your voice and say what you want the audience to get. “dude come look at this lake. it’s like. got a little halo of grass and flowers shit is so got damb cute” “nah man look at the mountains” “you’re all wrong check the ghost-clouds” “woooahhhh” actually works, and dialogue is a million times more fun to read and write (imho only tho) than like lines and lines of trying to force people to see what you see

on that note, unless it’s crucial people do see what you see? give up. let them figure it out on their own. watch a new scene: “she swore and went back for her shoe, dangling useless in the sewer grate, trying to keep her stocking foot aloft as she navigated the crowded sidewalk.” chances are, many of you saw a different shoe. in my head, it’s a red heel, but it’s not about the color - it’s about her being stuck w/out it. many of you probably naturally filled in the gaps - she’s in the city, she’s frustrated, her stockings means she’s not wearing pants (probably a skirt), the shoe getting stuck in the grate implies a heel, and, wherever she is, it’s crowded. she also looks like a pigeon in my head while she tries to work back to her shoe - but we don’t need to be told that, because our brains fill it in. if my piece was about that single red shoe, i’d name it. if it’s about how her day is going wrong? don’t bother. 

sometimes it’s not you, it’s the scene. if the story don’t naturally take you there, it might be telling you – just hang on a dandy second, they wouldn’t go here. “but i want bella and edward in the field kissing” okay my guy. chill. take a second and ask - hey do i need to just skip this and move on? do i need to have them take a second? “bella, come with me,” he begged. she stared at him. “I’m not getting murdered,” she replied” – now that would have been some believable dialogue. 

worst comes to worst, try it in a different style. if you’re usually all quick facts, elaborate more. if you’re usually paragraphs, have edward beg her to come by describing it through dialogue. help you and your story stay fresh with interesting techniques. 

okay good luck out there. go write beautiful meadows that are more than just green or maybe just green and that’s enough for me. :)

[read-an-interesting-book]

New Trailer For NBC’s Midnight, Texas based on the series of novels of the same name by  Charlaine Harris

TV Show Synopsis:

http://www.nbc.com/midnight-texas?nbc=1

Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. From the visionary director of Mr. Robot and based on the hit book series from the author behind HBO’s True Blood comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

Midnight Crossroad Synopsis:

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.

There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).

Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth…

[read-an-interesting-book]

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bonesetting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a doctor.

Fresh off an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe that she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with one goal in mind—to enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science. But then a small window of hope opens. Felicity is offered a chance to break into this male-dominated world, although it might financially ruin her.

For the last year, she has been depending on the generosity of Callum Doyle, a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh. But then he had to go and propose marriage. Felicity can think of nothing less appealing than giving up her career aspirations to become someone’s wife. Luckily, a mysterious young woman will pay handsomely for help with a heist—not for jewels, but for stolen sea charts that belong to the British Navy.

Despite the danger, Felicity’s tempted by the money, but she never expects to be swept up in a perilous quest that leads her from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.

[fi-lewis]

Skiing is pretty fantastic but it’s definitely better with this guy! Thanks for organising everything, speaking in German, helping me limp up the stairs with my boots on, and making me delicious dinners #bestboyfriendaround #skiing #switzerland #rosti #fsagoskiing #yesthatskirsch (at Falera-Curnius-Crap Sogn Gion)