I'm actually, a wee bit curious as to where you came across the link. Being the scatterbrained creature that I am, I forgot to forward this on to Metafandom like normal, so... I'm gratified to know that people can find this anyway.
Good for you! Unfortunately there aren't a lot of resources available to an able-bodied writer who wants to write characters with disabilities. I have another post here: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/44963.html in which I lay out my pet peeves in fiction and comments related to disabilities, and the comments are full of discussion from other disabled fans. The "disabilities" tag on Metafandom has some more information. My other bit of advice is once you settle on a disability (or disabilities) to use in your story, do a lot of research on how people have made accommodations for said disability. This becomes more difficult for stories set in specific periods, but it can be done. Also, you end up knowing a lot of fun facts. For example, I know more than you would ever want to about the history of glass eyes for a fic I wrote with a blind character.
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Date: 2010-08-10 03:52 am (UTC)Good for you! Unfortunately there aren't a lot of resources available to an able-bodied writer who wants to write characters with disabilities. I have another post here: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/44963.html in which I lay out my pet peeves in fiction and comments related to disabilities, and the comments are full of discussion from other disabled fans. The "disabilities" tag on Metafandom has some more information. My other bit of advice is once you settle on a disability (or disabilities) to use in your story, do a lot of research on how people have made accommodations for said disability. This becomes more difficult for stories set in specific periods, but it can be done. Also, you end up knowing a lot of fun facts. For example, I know more than you would ever want to about the history of glass eyes for a fic I wrote with a blind character.