I am a writer. As part of my commitment to writing, I participate in Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo each year. Please consider donating to support the programs the Office of Letters and Light run!
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For NaNoWriMo, I write Young Adult novels about teens with disabilities. This year, I'm writing the third book in a series.
The Möbius Strip is about youth with disabilities who attend an alternative school in Calgary, Alberta.
Tumbling is about Talia, a 14yo autistic girl with tardive dyskinesia (a result of the antipsychotics her mother had her take for several years). She wants to be a competitive gymnast. She also has to testify in the trial of the man who sexually abused her. Tumbling was the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2008.
Relevé takes place two years after Tumbling. Shortly after her 16th birthday, Rosemarie's boyfriend dumps her. Then she fails her audition for the ballet corps she has wanted to be a part of for years. After nearly destroying her friendship with Talia, Rosemarie re-evaluates her life and dreams, finding new strength and self-understanding. Relevé is a complete rewrite of the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2006.
Pointillism follows Relevé. Tim is 17 and has unmedicated ADHD. He desperately wants to attend the Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD) next year, but is having a horrible time getting his portfolio and application finished. He is Rosemarie's former boyfriend, and still has feelings for her. Pointillism is the novel I will be writing for NaNoWriMo in 2009.
This is not a blog entry, so you can't leave comments to it. I will be making a post about NaNoWriMo eventually and will link to it from here. Thank you!
I know, I know, it's been a long time. I'll be back regularly eventually, I'm sure. Life has just been crazybusy lately, that's all.
2 comments:
I think that a day for disability awareness is very useful indeed, given the extent of public ignorance surrounding disability rights issues.
I wouldn't frame it in terms of "the disabled person," however. I don't believe in dividing the population into "disabled" and "normal" people. Any of us could be put into the disabled category at any time, depending on how society chooses to view our particular difficulties. There's not a person on Earth who doesn't have below-average abilities of one sort or another, and deciding who is "disabled" is a very arbitrary process indeed.
The International Day of Disability Awareness would be a better name, in my opinion.
Thing is there were a variety of things I could have been doing, I could have been manning the metaphorical barricades in London with a demo in Downing street, and I was at least there in spirit, or I could have been at any number of less glamorous events, and indeed was at one, freezing my not so metaphorical 'nads off presenting a stall on that dirtiest of words to some "neurodiversity" in my home town.
The concensus amongst local participants was "why does this have to be in December when it is soooooo cold?"
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