[stylist] writing about blindness

[Angela fowler]

"Mesh the blind world with the sighted?" Aren't the two worlds meshed by
default? 

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:05 AM
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It's not hard to figure.  I guess it's where your interests lie and how you
look at your writing.  My interests, as is reflected in my work, is with the
handicapped.  However, I don't mesh the blind world with the sighted one in
my writing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:07 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
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:00 AM
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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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