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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.

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I remember this time where my class had a math substitute, and we couldn't be paying her less atention. There were a couple of guys who were trying to do the bottle flip challenge in every possible surface (and failing), and after a while the substitute got tired of their bs and told them to stop. One of those guys offered her a deal: if she could do the challenge in the first try, the class would get extra homework. So she went (fun fact she was pregnant) and did it. Everybody went fucking wild it was amazing

Hello, yes, End Game has me super emo and I heard you're writing a fix-it fic. Where can I find this masterpiece?

Hi!!! I think we’re all feeling that to some degree, but thank you so much for wanting to read! You can find it HERE ! 💜

Comparing and contrasting I Saw The TV Glow and The Substance is really interesting to me.

One is the horror of not changing. Keeping yourself trapped in the wrong body, because it’s what the world tells you you should do.

One is the horror of changing everything. Forcing the wrong version of you out of yourself, building a literal closet to hide your true self in, because it’s what the world tells you you should do.

And I think, because both do such a viscerally good job of articulating their lived experiences, both together shed light on how these two groups are pitted against each other.

What one needs in this world to exist as themselves is the opposite of what the other needs, and transphobes feed off of that. They encourage cis people to project their personal horror story onto someone else’s life and decide they are destroying their bodies, not learning to love themselves enough, instead of stepping back to see the throughline.

Killing yourself to be something for someone else instead of yourself is the horror story, always.

What that means and looks like for each of us is different. Polar opposite sometimes. And that’s okay.

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Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi decided to share the title in the men’s high jump.

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HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

Actually, in reference to one of your earlier reblogs, red onions are purple because because red, as a color, does not show up naturally in nature! Hope this helps

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