To have that awareness, not just of a potential readership but of the self and how we react to prejudice of any kind, either as passive audience or participant (be it perpetrator or the one being prejudiced against.)
How we react to prejudice and also our own prejudices, and how they might be colouring what we put on the page. I really think awareness is the key; if you keep in the forefront of your mind that writing these characters takes more than just getting the big picture things right, then you'll do all right. I don't think it's impossible for an able-bodied author to write a realistic disabled character, I just think that to do so takes a lot more effort than people realise.
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Date: Sat, Apr. 9th, 2011 08:01 pm (UTC)How we react to prejudice and also our own prejudices, and how they might be colouring what we put on the page. I really think awareness is the key; if you keep in the forefront of your mind that writing these characters takes more than just getting the big picture things right, then you'll do all right. I don't think it's impossible for an able-bodied author to write a realistic disabled character, I just think that to do so takes a lot more effort than people realise.