Comments on: Writers Write What They Always Wanted To Read, Don’t You Know!

By: samedifference1

samedifference1 — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:48:32 +0000

He sounds like my favourite kind of person… truly DisAbled

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:36:18 +0000

Oh yes. He’s soon to graduate from Cambridge with his doctorate in family law.

By: samedifference1

samedifference1 — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:37 +0000

Thanks so much for your comments! I wish I’d had friends like you in school. Are you still in touch with your friend?

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:45:17 +0000

I remember when I was in school, one of my best friends had cerebral palsy. We were going to write a fiction book. Now, being seventeen and in possession of plenty of teen angst, it was going to be broadly biographical except set in a fantasy realm. Obviously one of the major themes it explored was how having CP made it awkward to have a normal relationship. We never finished in the end, growing out of teen angst phase long before we completed the book – but I can bet my friend would agree with you, somehow, and that he’d have been a big fan of such a book had someone else written in twenty years ago.