Disability in the Change series

[rachelmanija]

Sherwood and I posted on disability in the Change series at Diversity in YA.

Everything I write stems from personal experience, even if it’s set in a post-apocalyptic world where people have mutant powers and the trees can eat you.

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Comments

[jennifergale]

That made me laugh! Oh, how that resonates! What's fun is when it stems from personal experience and you don't even realize it until later. (Hmm...fun or creepy?)

[rachelmanija]

That happens to me all the time.

[jennifergale]

A while after escaping a magnificently special marriage, I returned to the manuscript I drafted during that period and was horrified. The first few pages were downright prophetic. My writer-brain saw what my human brain had no desire to notice. I thought I was writing a doting character who later turned out to be a monster. Instead, he was a monster from the first sentence. What had shifted was that I knew what those markers meant.

I'm not sure. Does this mean that we are smarter than we know when we do this...or more clueless than we ought to be? (Or something else entirely!?)

[rachelmanija]

It's like a photograph taken that reveals detail that are only relevant in retrospect. Sometimes we see clearly, but don't understand what we see until we get context later.

[melebeth]

I have occasional nightmares about those trees, thank you very much.

[rachelmanija]

Would it be too mean to say "Mission accomplished?"

[melebeth]

Not in the least.