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Life Within An Institution

 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:30 / 09.05.05
This is mainly about writing prose fiction but it could conceivably work for other fields.

In a previous thread we talked about how to represent the specialist speech we might come across in our writing; for example, a policeman. I devised this thread as a meeting ground where we could come to shed personal insights- first hand information- on a topic that we're often called upon to adress in fiction: the greater social strctures our characters inhabit.

I'm leaving the definition of "institution" pretty wide, here- maybe you haver characters working in a hospital, maybe a buddhist monastery...how do/would you handle this and what is your own experience?