Thank you so much for reading, and weighing in despite your limited number of spoons (such a useful analogy!). I'm honored that you still remember my HP fics, so thanks for the kind words there -- and yes, Faery Rebels is Knife in Australia. If you ever do get around to reading it I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on Paul.
On a positive note about the book that spawned this post -- I posted a link to this essay on another forum, where the author of said book is a frequent participant, and her response was so gracious that I have now gone out and ordered the sequel (which apparently contains a character with a disability who does not die, and for which readers with disabilities have thanked her. Huzzah!). My respect for her has gone up several notches as a result.
Re your reluctance to write about disability issues in your fiction for fear of becoming tedious -- I find it hard to believe that, being as aware as you are, of the potential for fail, you would be at all likely to commit that kind of fail yourself. I think authors who are worried about being preachy are far less likely to actually be preachy than the ones who think they have Something Meaningful To Say and it is their duty to share it with the world. Which is not to say that some people won't still find it preachy, but I think it's apt to be much less worse than the author fears. But in any case a good honest critique group, or a good editor, will spot anything that's over the top and help the author to tone it down or cut it out as needed.
And I am completely nutty about synesthesia, as everybody who hangs out on this journal knows by now, so you have really made me want to read that Isobelle Carmody book! Thanks so much for your comment.
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Date: 2010-05-17 05:00 pm (UTC)On a positive note about the book that spawned this post -- I posted a link to this essay on another forum, where the author of said book is a frequent participant, and her response was so gracious that I have now gone out and ordered the sequel (which apparently contains a character with a disability who does not die, and for which readers with disabilities have thanked her. Huzzah!). My respect for her has gone up several notches as a result.
Re your reluctance to write about disability issues in your fiction for fear of becoming tedious -- I find it hard to believe that, being as aware as you are, of the potential for fail, you would be at all likely to commit that kind of fail yourself. I think authors who are worried about being preachy are far less likely to actually be preachy than the ones who think they have Something Meaningful To Say and it is their duty to share it with the world. Which is not to say that some people won't still find it preachy, but I think it's apt to be much less worse than the author fears. But in any case a good honest critique group, or a good editor, will spot anything that's over the top and help the author to tone it down or cut it out as needed.
And I am completely nutty about synesthesia, as everybody who hangs out on this journal knows by now, so you have really made me want to read that Isobelle Carmody book! Thanks so much for your comment.