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Disabled main carictors?

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OZ:
I loved the Dan Wells trilogy. I hope he writes something else soon. (Or has he already and I missed it?) Marvel comics Daredevil is another well known character with a handicap (blindness) although the way it's written, his super powered other senses and his "radar" sense more than make up for his loss.

Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhymes is a quadriplegic detective. At least one of the stories, The Bone Collector, was made into a movie although I haven't seen it. I remember reading a series of short stories about a blind detective when I was a teenager but I don't remember the author or any of the titles. I just remember that I enjoyed them.

I have thought before that I would like to write a story with a handicapped protagonist (or even a group of people, perhaps from some sort of care facility ) but I have been afraid that I would not do them justice since I personally have not experienced what they have.

Aminar:
Odd fact.  Dan Wells next book is out in German, but won't hit the US for several more months.  It's about a schizophrenic.(I think)

cenwolfgirl:
Okay so you went only slitly off topic i had to read the last post twice to understand it
When i say my charictor has a disabilaty it is to give her depth and just to prove that we with sensery disabilaties and any one for that matter can do anything
interesting things like magicle abilaties ect don't just happen to normal '20"20's
but i am glad that i am not the only wrighter who gives other prespectives
 ;D

Darkshore:

--- Quote from: cenwolfgirl on February 06, 2012, 03:31:55 PM ---Okay so you went only slitly off topic i had to read the last post twice to understand it
When i say my charictor has a disabilaty it is to give her depth and just to prove that we with sensery disabilaties and any one for that matter can do anything
interesting things like magicle abilaties ect don't just happen to normal '20"20's
but i am glad that i am not the only wrighter who gives other prespectives
 ;D

--- End quote ---

Writing characters with disabilities adds to the realism factor for me, but it all depends on your target audience. I understand that you have sight problems and this effects your spelling, but it would be very beneficial for you to take extra time with your posts (as I hope you do with your writing) to ensure that there isn't an abundance of misspellings. Is English perhaps not your first language? To me that would make sense as many of your words are spelled oddly. Wright compared to Write, for example. No offense intended, just trying to help.

cenwolfgirl:
sorry
english is my first language but
i spell things therneticly most of the time
okay therneticly is a hard word
you say that you have gathered that I have sight problems
take a minet to think about this
if you were to blink constently for that hole minet
you have gust entered what my life is like constently
as that is avrage
my glasses bearly make a diffrens most of the time
and you wonder why i can not spell as well as you lot
and today it is worse than normal but what can you do

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