Grandma Cindy:
Blink is, well, kind of a little bit of derogatory terminology for a
blind person. Maybe derogatory isn't quite the right word. Kinda like,
well, u know, how black folks call each other the n word, & for them
it's ok, but should definitively not be done if you're not. This is
just me, but, personally, I don't like being called that by either
blind or sighted folks. Of course, perhaps it's because I was 1st
called that not long after losing my eyesight, & that by a sighted
person whom I felt had no business referring to me in anything but a
respectful way. Conversely, I don't like blind folks referring to
sighted people as sightlings, either. To my way of thinking, we're
just people who happen to be sight-impaired or sight-enabled, w/the
personhood coming 1st & foremost & the visual status pretty much
secondarily down the line. &, in case you're wondering, I don't like
the n word, either, & I'll tell u what--when I was teachin & heard 1
of my students use that word I came *unglued* in front of the whole
class & when I got done u coulda heard a pin drop in that room. & I
got in trouble as a kid once cuz some1 called my friend that & they in
turn got a knuckle sandwich from me lol. I wasn't sorry about it then
& I'm not now. & I got in more trouble cuz I was told to apologize to
the kid I'd hit & I absolutely refused. So I guess I think names are
what u should call people, like Jackie or Cindy, & labels belong on
cans.
Hope that answered your question, if nothing else.
On 6/25/08, E. <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you write such a book, who is your audience?
Sighted people?
E.
At 09:07 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
The books sound interesting, Chris. Maybe you can add a chapter that
includes all the ridiculous and/or unkind situations sighted people
have put blind people in based on the recent discussions on the bookshare
site.
What does "blink" stand for? I can figure out "blind" but not the rest of
it.
G.Cindy
--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 10:34 AM
> Thanks Nan!
>
> Dena and I are trying to focus on "Groping Through
> Life: The Tactile Way to
> Live" which will include a bunch of vignettes about
> situations where sighted
> people would be embarrassed or outraged but a blink can get
> away with. One
> chapter is entirely on sex and the guide dog when your
> sighted partner says,
> "He's looking at me..." and grows
> uncomfortable.
>
> I'm also working on a long piece with Susanne Kammlott
> (Boston Phoenix,
> Boston Globe, various magazines) who has an agent and a ton
> of cred but we
> keep starting and stopping and reworking and looping back
> again.
>
> Finally, I've a memoir of drug addiction, blindness and
> recovery which is
> all pretty dark until the end that I find myself working on
> when I had set
> out to do something with one of the others.
>
> cdh
>
> Chris Hofstader
> CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> <http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com/>
> Skype: BlindChristian
> phone: 727-896-6393
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Nan Hawthorne
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:58 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
>
>
> Chris,
>
> I can answer your questions, but maybe not quite as you
> intended.
>
> How do I maintain the discipline to focus on one project at
> a time..
> actually this has not come up as I have had so much emotion
> wrapped up in An
> Involuntary King that though I had more ideas floating
> about they patiently
> waited for the "heart's work" to be done. I
> suppose my own question would
> be, does it matter? Can you work on more than one at a
> time? If not, I
> guess willpower will be required.
>
> Second question about getting something to the top of a
> publisher's pile.
> One answer might be getting a good agent. That's not
> how I went. I am a
> board member of the Independent Author's Guild
> www.independentauthorsguild.org - we are authors who
> intentionally publish
> through small press publishers and publish on demand
> companies. Since
> corporate publishing is leveraged to their eyeballs these
> days they are risk
> adverse.. and it is well nigh impossible to get their
> motive. As a result
> tons of well written and particularly genre fiction just
> does not get
> published. I knew An Involuntary King hadn't chance,
> no matter the
> quality, because Saxon era fiction is represented by
> Bernard Cornwell and no
> one else.. the publishers are adamant that no one reads it.
> Since I will
> read anything written about that era I can get my ears on,
> I know that's not
> true. So I chose to set up my own press and use a POD.
> The stigma of
> "self-publishing" is no longer valid. There is
> indie music recording, indie
> film making, and indie software development. Why do we
> assume indie book
> publishing will result in crap? I will rely on my readers
> to make that
> judgment. And now that more than half of books sold are
> sold online it is
> no disadvantage.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Nan Hawthorne
>
>
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