- Introduce yourself! What’s your name? Are you disabled? What do you write?
- What are you working on at the moment? Does it have disabled characters?
- How long have you been writing for? What point are you at in your career? (Published, querying, still working on your first WIP?)
- Do your impairments make writing more difficult?
- Do you write/have you written disabled characters? Why or why not?
- Do you think disabled characters are more difficult to write?
- What do you do to make sure that your representation isn’t harmful?
- Disabled people-What do you want abled people to know before they write a disabled character? Abled people-any questions for disabled people?
- Is there anything in regard to disability that you think should never be written?
- How do you research impairments you don’t have? Any good resources?
- What disabilities would you like to see more representation of?
- Do you use any tools for writing that disabled (and abled) writers might benefit from?
- Are you a member of any writing groups? Are they accessible? Share good and bad experiences so that we can all learn how to make our events more accessible.
- Have you attended writing conferences? What made them accessible/inaccessible?
- Do you think the online writing community is inclusive of disabled people? What can we do to make it more accessible?
- As a disabled writing community what can we do to be more intersectional?
- Tell us about one of your disabled characters.
- Share a line from your WIP about disability
- Where do you write? How often do you write?
- Do you think the publishing industry is accessible to disabled writers? Is there anything you’ve struggled with because of your disability?
- What do you think agents and publishes can do to make the industry more inclusive of disabled people?
- What can we do to support disabled writers?
- Have you published anything with a disabled character? If not, any recommendations of books with good rep? Share links!
- Tell us about one of your disabled characters.
- Have you made any mistake when writing disability? What did you learn from them?
- Are there any disabled characters that you think are particularly under represented in fiction?
- What can non-disabled writers do to be good allies to disabled writers? What can disabled writers do to be better allies to disabled writers who have other marginalised identities too?
- How can we make our books more accessible to disabled readers?
- If someone has written/published harmful representation of disabled characters, what can they do to make amends?
- Share something positive about writing and disability- a positive experience in the writing community or industry, a book with great rep, an inclusive writing event.
- Have you learned anything from WriteDis that you want to share?
Brooke Winters 