Right, but part of the character personality was very much 'this relying upon others because I cannot... is weakness... I refuse to be weak' like I said, I wrote myself into so many corners hahaha
Back when I was teaching I borrowed 15 wheelchairs and had my class spend the day in them, in Stockholm city, in pairs, to write pieces on the frustrations they faced, etc.
Were you in the editorial office?
Hahaha. Yeah, there were at least two scenes where I couldn't work out a better solution than that... it worked pretty well generally. But it was mindbendingly difficult sometimes to logic the simplest stuff, which did impact how I saw disability friendly stuff.
Hahah that's Apple deciding I didn't mean Warhammer and throwing in a very different vision (for me, it's Hammer, pre-1939 Bela Lugosi) which I quite like hahahah
I've still got about 10 chapters left to actually finish it, things became that tricky. About a decade back I stripped out half of the story and released it as Ghosts of the Conquered, but I keep wanting to use the skills I now have to go back and fix the full, massive, 200k novel and just have it.
In my first attempt at a fantasy novel, pre-war hammer days, I had a military genius character who was rendered paraplegic after a battle, had him design a war chariot and all sorts, even a prototype wheelchair, etc, as he was still going to run the city defences. Wrote myself into so many corners.
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It really is. Was a hell of a week meeting some brilliant writers and listening to some genuine heroesā¦ but never go back.
You can imagine the faces of all the prom and proper folks in their tuxās etc while a few of us just died laughing because heād faked an entirely different speech in the rehearsal for the awards.