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Writing a Blind or Visually Impaired Character

A Multi-Step Guide Written by a Visually Impaired Writer and Blogger

I’m hoping this blog will over time develop its own following, and when it does people will inevitably see my bio and notice what I included: I’m visually impaired.

Yes, a visually impaired writer, and I’ve written with two blind characters before so I have some practice in the field.

So, inevitably, someone is going to ask how to write a blind character.

Or, at least, I hope you’ll ask someone who’s actually blind or visually impaired about writing a blind character before you get too involved with your new WIP.

I started writing this guide two hours ago and it’s gotten away from me. It make it a more manageable read, I’m going to separate it into X many parts, and each part will be linked.

Part One: Crafting the Blind Character

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185123396964/writing-a-blind-or-visually-impaired-character

Part Two: Writing the Blind Character, including narrative choice, visual description, verbal description, social interaction

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185125198184/writing-blind-or-visually-impaired-characters

Part Three: Tropes and Cliches to Avoid

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185124340794/writing-blind-and-visually-impaired-characters

Part Four: What Your Blind Character Needs to Survive and Not Die

[Not written yet, but this is the reserved spot for it]

Part Five: Small Aspects of being Blind You Never Thought Of

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185134862519/writing-a-blind-of-visually-impaired-character

Part Six: Should You Cure Your Character’s Blindness? (Short Answer: No)

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185125880559/writing-a-blind-or-visually-impaired-character

-New- Writing Blind Characters Falling in Love, an Advice Post:

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/186276022234/writing-blind-characters-falling-in-love-an

-New- Writing Blind Jokes (Should You Do It?)

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/187906205649/writing-a-blindvisually-impaired-character-blind

-New- A small essay addressing the frequently asked question on giving your blind character a superpower to help them “see.”

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/187913512454/blind-characters-and-superpowers

-New- Mourning My Vision, it’s More than Depression. A small personal essay addressing the nuances of the mourning period you experience with a new disability. The mourning period is mentioned in other guides, but this is more detailed.

https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/188649694569/mourning-my-vision-its-more-than-depression

All parts will be tagged #blindcharacter in my blog, and I will add links to every post as I finish each part. Follow my blog for more writing advice.

Nothing fancy here, it’s just some sketches. Funfact, the Ennard sketch is based off of a personal headcannon of mine. It’s from the fake Sister Location ending (the one with Ennard coming toward you as you watch The Immortal and the Restless). My headcannon is that during the fake ending, Michael took pity on Ennard and he took him, the Minireena’s and even the Bidybabs home. He fixed Ennard up as best as he could and Michael helped him and the Bidy’s/Mini’s find a place to live at a burger joint that was looking for a way to entertain it’s costumers like Freddy’s but couldn’t afford to pay or rent out animatronics. 

The crying child picture is based on this one be Doloresman: https://uhoh-howunfortunate.tumblr.com/post/187653539253/doloresman-sketching-because-im-stressing

He WILL scream

pre NH villagers have the amount of siblings they have listed on their wiki pages so i wanted to draw designing some of them :’3

ZERO CAL CREAMY ICED COFFEE

THIS IS NOT A DRILL i just made iced coffee that’s “creamy” as FUCK. and it’s ZERO CALORIES. IT WAS STUPIDLY SIMPLE.

SO what you do is:

2cups ice

1/4-1/2 cup STRONG COFFEE (you can even do an espresso shot)

a splash of vanilla and caramel flavour (optional)

0cal sweetener to taste

BLEND THE FUCK OUTTA THAT BITCH UNTIL IT FROTHS. it’ll turn a cream beige colour then you know it’s done. the froth makes it taste like there’s legit HEAVY CREAM in it.

Lemme know how y’all like it!

can u maybe do a blacklight stimboard 👉👈

In 1963, the Moscow-Washington hotline was installed to let the two countries talk quickly without the usual delay of diplomatic channels. To test the line, the first message sent was “THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG’S BACK 1234567890.” It quite confused the English translators in Moscow!

Just because. 👏 You don’t. 👏 Like somebody. 👏 Doesn’t mean. 👏 You can. 👏 Disrespect. 👏 Their pronouns. 👏

Respecting somebody’s gender and pronouns isn’t optional under any circumstances. Not respecting calling somebody by their preferred pronouns is discrimination.

Respect everyone’s gender and pronouns don’t. You don’t get to pick and choose.

Has anyone of your characters committed tax evasion?

Yes. Definitely. I would say 4 of my characters, for sure. I’ll list them in order of severity:

Sid [TINR] - Tax evasion by ignorance. Didn’t feel like doing his taxes, forgot about it, and paid the price later. He learned his lesson.

Mason [TPOF] - Lives off the grid. Has never paid taxes in his life. According to the government, he doesn’t exist.

Ren [ BTD2 ] - Commits both tax evasion by not paying his own taxes, and fraudulently files Strade’s taxes [ obviously lying about income sources etc ]

Derek [ TPOF ] - While he’s still ‘under his dad’s thumb’ financially, he has been raised and trained to evade taxes via offshore accounts and bullshit ‘charity contributions’. A classic wall street leech.

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