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[maderr]

Dear Self,

You know nothing whatsoever about being blind. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

It's incredibly fucking hard to write a blind character, esp. when they are the major player in the story.

Why then, self, are you doing a blind character for the third goddamn time?

I do wonder what candy you're popping when I'm not looking.

Sincerely,
Me

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[tygati.livejournal.com]

The three I've known have been very nice. ^^ One was actually a computer geek, amusingly enough. He had special software that read on-screen text to him. Another was pretty good about identifying cars from the way they sounded. 9.9 He would unfailingly wave to me when I drove by. >.> *still impressed by that* ^^

Aside from the fact that they don't ever look quite at you, more in your general direction and smile a lot, they're not all that different. ^.^

[maderr.livejournal.com]

The hard part is just remembering they can't SEE. Do you know how many times I write shit out before I realize HEY DUMBASS HOW DO THEY KNOW IT'S BLUE.

Really, it just amuses me that I seem determined to write that partuclar trait. Perhaps I'm attempting to best a secret fear or something equally pyschological.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*grin* Turn out all the lights in the house (after clearing the floor of any hazards) tie a cloth of some sort over your eyes, then wander around and touch things. It's quite the fascinating experience, what you can hear, smell, taste, feel... when you can't see. ^.^

>.> No, I don't go wandering around my house at midnight for kicks, why do you ask? ^^;

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I actually make a point to learn my whole house, wherever I live, in the dark ^^;; I think it's the military in me.

Holy christ, nano megan. no lj.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*laugh* So do I. Less prone to walking into thinks if I can find them in the dark and blindfolded. ;) Still, it's quite the exercise. Gives you an all-new awe for blind people, particularly when they go down stairs and make it look easy. >.>;

*pets you* Go, write. ^.^ I'm slacking off on my last three drabbles. ^^; *sheepish grin*

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Eieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Stone Rose icon!!!

I think I love November...

Oh, and good luck with the blind thing...

[maderr.livejournal.com]

hee hee hee.

Oh, I love it. Hopefully I'm not offending blind people everywhere by portraying one of them as a reincarnation of a god of death. Heh.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I have a cousin who is legally blind. Whenever I need inspiration I think of him. Alternately, I close my eyes and stumble around looking like a dork.

As a side note: I did this one in a church for a short story I was writing. Used my hand to count the pews down, listened to see what I could hear, etc. One of the people in the church actually thought I was blind and asked if I needed any help getting out. I swallowed laughter, kept my eyes closed, and said that I could handle it on my own.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

see, now that's amusing, because the story starts in a church.

I shall have to pretend blind this weekened. It should prove fun. If painful.

Being Blind

[moochiemoodle.livejournal.com]

basically you can't see when you're blind. It's pretty tough not being able to see. Can't read, can't drive, can't look at cute cabana boy's tight asses.

lol

Re: Being Blind

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Man are you on a roll tonight.

Still getting into a fight with cliff steele or whomever it was? He's the liberal version of you, I think.

[eurynome-on-ice.livejournal.com]

I like blind characters. It's so not fun to write them but damn do they challenge your skills. I made mine somewhat psychic so that I can account for the fact that he's not continually walking into those. It's still difficult.

[anialove.livejournal.com]

It's actually surprisingly easy to get around places you know when you can't see them. (If I get up in the night, I don't turn on lights or put on my glasses. I just shut my eyes so I don't give myself a vision headache and do what I need to do.)

That being said, trying to navigate when someone's just rearranged your furniture isn't so fun. (In my case, it ends with me lying stunned on the floor wondering what in the world I just fell over. And hoping I don't fall over it again on my way back.)

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

If we could only write main characters that reflect what we ARE, I'd have to write Chinese Singaporean straight-laced boring people all the time. :X Who are afraid to lose out and stick to the rules because of a general fear of authority.