Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
just thought I'd post this topic here. I posted it on the blind people community in live journal, and it didn't go over well at all, but I still think it would be a nice idea to have publishing houses that catered to blind writers. My reasoning is because of the visual description found in most stories or novels. Anyone who has read my blind Halucinations story, either on e-pals, or what I've written on here in writers block, know that my story has very little visual description, and the visual description involved has more to do with action or expression, rather thancolors, or what anything looks like. From the time I was born, visual description has never meant anything to me. I have no visual perception at all. When I'm reading a book, a mystery, suspense thriller, etc, and it starts going in to a lot of visual description, my mind wanders, and I get impatient to get on with it.It seems to me it would be nice if there were publishing houses especially for blind writers, where we wouldn't have to worryso much about visual description. We could write the same stuff sighted authors write, whatever your preferred genre, suspense, thrillers, science fiction, etc, but without all the visual description, for those of uswhom visual description isn't important.Although I've been told the ultimate success would be getting published in a sighted publishing house, and It's great, if a blind person is good enough at visual description, and finds it enjoyable, rather than it being something to be sifted through,and if he/she can accomplish it, that's great, but I think it would be great to have a publishing house with blind editors, publishers, who catered to blind authors.
wonderwoman
I think this is a good idea. Although I do enjoy writing visual descriptions, if I have enough information abou them, and if they have vivid words. Lol. I'm very weird.
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
No, most folks would say I'm weird, but visual description has never meant anything to me, it strikes no chord whatsoever, and I seem to be the only blind person who feels this way. I don't hate anything that's visual, but it just doesn't interest me, and I just have no visual sense at all. My impressions are mostly what I hear.
wonderwoman