[stylist] writing about blindness

[Aziza]

I suppose I could write about blind people better, but I read a lot of 
fiction books, and most of them have sighted characters. I draw from those 
descriptions, also in class, you don't see the teacher teaching many texts 
with blind people in them. I think I can write about fiction sighted 
characters as well as I can blind fiction characters. I may of course be 
wrong.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] writing about blindness


>I guess it depends on your frame of mind at the time of writing. While 
>blind
> fiction writers can depict blind characters obviously far more accurately
> than sighted fiction writers, we limit ourselves if we stick exclusively 
> to
> blind characters or blindness issues.
> As for articles, I've been writing about a lot of blindness related stuff
> lately. Its funny, I went into my historical research and writing class
> vowing I was going to write about anything but a blindness issue, and 
> ended
> up writing about the way the ADA effects blind people. Go figure.
>
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Aziza
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>
> I don't write about being blind either. I mean unless it's my articles. 
> But
> when I write storries, all my characters can see, and have other problems
> they must overcome in their lives.
> I don't think it's denial at all.
> Aziza
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> To: "Stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:51 AM
> Subject: [stylist] writing about blindness
>
>
>> I'm not in denial nor do I ignore the fact that I do have a handicap
>> that I have to overcome on a daily basis.  However, when I am writing
>> I seem to go into a different world.  I write about people who are
>> ill, some of my characters die and others fall into the clutches of
>> bad people.  If I say that blindness bores me, you might come out with
>> an arms length of causes for my symptoms.  However, a person does not
>> necessarily want to write about those things they live with and rise
>> above on a daily basis.  I am fat.  Writing about being fat falls under
> the same category as blind.
>> Live with it.  Fight against it as much as possible, but it shouldn't
>> dominate every facet of your life.  Again, you may think I'm in some
>> kind of denial, but I'm not.  I won't drive a car into a crowd, try
>> sewing a garment while it is on the back of my would be victim and I
>> won't pretend to read the paper when I can't even make out one picture
>> in the blasted thing.  Judith
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