Life is coming.

[hannah]

My next short-term fic project - 5000 to 20000 words, you know, short-term - will focus on a post-menopausal woman late in her life. To those reading this space who've gone through that process, is there anything of note I should be aware of or make sure to include? It's not a subject where I can extrapolate from personal experience, and most of the stuff I've yet found is fairly sanitized and clinical. Informative, yes, and also clinical. It's not quite what I'm after in terms of getting a hold on emotional thrust.

I'd like to take a stab at long-term love and the work required for that to work in the day-to-day. Knowing what at least one of the main characters has gone through, having lived all those days, would be a big help.

And now that I've asked the internet: time to see what the library's got.

Comments

[nightdog_barks]

I'm 61, so I'm not sure if that's late enough in life for your fic. :-)

I would say that the one thing that really surprised me, in addition to the "usual" insomnia and mood swings/emotions close to the surface and hot flashes, was that the hot flashes progressed to pretty much announcing themselves with surges of anxiety and ... there's no better word for it ... doom. Seriously. If you google "hot flashes feeling of dread," it's all there. Nobody'd ever told me about THAT one.

Let me know if you want anything more. ♥

[hannah]

Not quite, no, but this is still tremendously helpful - nobody wrote about the feelings of dread, either, which is a detail I would love to make use of. I found them because you told me to look for them.

I'll take anything you want to share, and with gusto.