Championing More Disabled Characters in Literature

Writer and journalist Melissa Wolff wrote an intriguing, thoughtful editorial in her December newsletter (link below, see p. 8). It's a call out to fellow writers to include more disabled characters in their stories and books. Wolff is disabled herself, and discusses how when growing up, she had no models in literature. If a character was disabled, it was the focus of the entire story, rather than there being a disabled character who fit naturally into the plot. Think about this next time you are writing, and consider including a disabled character, not for the PC reaction you would get, but for the important role model this character might provide to someone like Wolff, and for the small education it can provide to the rest of us who aren't disabled.

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