With so many people providing free information, surely writers have the resources and motivation they need to create neurodivergent characters…Don’t they?
Category Archives: Disability & Neurodiversity
Still Functioning
If it isn’t obvious by now, regular blogging is not my thing. I won’t apologise for it – I have a number of valid reasons – and I won’t list my excuses, since that will probably just bore you. So, dear reader, what should I write about? Maybe you’d like me to share some of myContinue reading “Still Functioning”
Am I Ready to Continue Writing My Novel?
Learning about my disability and neurodivergence might help me learn how to keep writing.
Leaving the Novel in Progress (Part 2)
My fiction feels like a way to prove myself, and that isn’t healthy. The relationship must either change or end. A follow up to my last post.
Yes, it’s been a while. Forgive the delay – I had a strange work schedule and several class projects to juggle. Anyhow, back to the matter at hand, which can be summed up like this: “I’m writing a book, but I don’t know what it’s about.”
Leaving the Novel in Progress (Part 1)
How the beautiful promise of a published novel narrowed my focus too much. I did consider stopping, once or twice, but the idea terrified me. Wasn’t the NIP (novel-in-progress) my anchor? Wasn’t it the reason I studied literature and creative writing, and read widely, and started this website – and wasn’t it my lifelong dream to be the Author of a Book? There was no other job I wanted to do. There was nothing else I was this good at. What else could I do with my life?
Links & Pursuits, October 2021
Things that caught my eye this month – including writing by Carolyn Hinds and Johnathon Flowers – plus some DIY pursuits.
October isn’t just turkey and pumpkins month.
Several weeks ago, I learned that it’s also National Disability Employment month, and this guided some of my reading and thinking, as you’ll see below.
…I read:
I’m Published!
I wrote an article and pitched it to Mythic Scribes, a site which specialises in fantasy for fantasy writers, and they accepted it!
Links & Pursuits September 2021
Autumn is nearly here! After another summer without air conditioning this can only be good news in my house. I’m thinking of having a kind of mini harvest festival to celebrate the turn of the season – something involving apples and a bonfire.
Progress Report: Summer 2021
Overall the first months of 2021 have been quite productive, by my standards, with nine chapters of my novel written and lots of research done.
Review of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
My tangling together of value and production, identity and respect paralleled a similar phenomenon in Canadian literature as a whole. Refuse has shown me what lurks behind the façade of my dream job.
Emma Lammers 