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Debby Phillips
semisweetdebby at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 03:06:14 UTC 2015
One of my favorite authors (especially when I was younger but
still I like her) is Beverly Butler. Beverly may not be alive
anymore, not sure. She is a blind author. She has written a
couple of books where her main character was blind, Light A
Single Candle and Gift of Gold, I think. She has written that
other books with sighted characters, but her descriptions are
mostly non-visual. (I believe she was blind from birth). I
never felt like I was missing anything, because her descriptions
are so very clear. I can't write visually because I don't "know"
what I'm writing about. I once wrote a story for an English
class with an apple-cheeked woman. I knew it meant that she had
red cheeks. But my teacher said that unless I really "knew" what
an apple-cheeked woman was like, I shouldn't write that way. If
I write about a sunny day, with the sun shining warmly down like
a smile, I can relate to that. But if I write: "The day was one
of those days when the sky was as blue as forever" I would just
be writing words from "pictures" in my mind, but I don't know
what it really means. (And yet in a way Can do. I don't exactly
know how to explain that. Oh well. Debby
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