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The Deposed King:
I say if you have a hankering for it.  then write what you know.  which is sight disabled.

After you do that, then you need to focus on explaining how things look to the character and how she/he compensates.  After that you need to make sure you aren't bogging your story down with non-relevent descriptions of how this disability effects her life and the story.

After you do a few of these.  I recommend writing either with a completely different disability or no disability, to give you some experience.  With a normal non-disabled character you'd need to focus on writing the descriptive scenes as seen by 20/20 vision.  With a paraplegic or deaf person, you'd be taking yourself outside of your known zone and I think this would give you insights on how to write a disabled character in a general way.  Being really close to something allows for an inside perspective that's hard to beat.  But it can sometimes focus to indepth to the point of irritation.  By working on a deaf or parplegic person it gives you an idea of how much is enough and how much is too much, for yourself as a reader and writer.

My two cents anyway.  I'm like at 20/450 myself, so its pretty easy to imagine how someone with permanentyly compromised vision would go around.  Take my glasses off and I have to get uncomfortably close to teh computer screen.  I'd only try to drive in a real emergency etc.  With my glasses I don't notice a thing.

Remember to always follow the dream and hey I have big spelling problems too.  I've worked on them though.  Maybe remember to start adding the H in after the C when you spell Character.  I don't mind the rest of it but for some reason that particular word is bugging me.  I know I know throwing stones and all that.  Anyway keep up the hard work.

and remember to always follow the dream,




the Deposed King

cenwolfgirl:
i think you have a good point it would be intresting to try and exsplain what it is like not to be able to see
i started the book for fun and due to the hole wrighting what you know thing my main carictor has the same problems as me or at least one of them
i am doing the twin thing because i have freinds who have hearing problems and thought it would be fun to right
i am folowing my dream but waiting for people to get back to be about what needs to be changed before sending it to publishers is aginising
i need to lurn pationts  :)

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