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Deaf history had always intrigued me. I have taken a class at RIT called American Deaf History. I enjoyed it; the professor really went in depth and was very detailed. I wish it was a bit more expansive, but there's only so much you can do within 15 weeks. Anyway, there are three obscure pieces of Deaf history that is lodged in my brain. There was an attempt to create a Deaf-only state In short, it failed because there was no way to guarantee a Deaf children, so what would we

I try to develop some kind of relationship with my narrators, which might sound weird. But the protagonist of my main story WIP I'm working on deeply values autonomy, and resists being controlled. My job as an author is to construct a story, which means there is a level of control involved. And hence, my narrator is very resistant to me. I know he’s fictional, but I wanted to respect him, and so we had to constantly negotiate. Even though I really wanted to put my protagonist

HEARTSTOPPER SPOILERS!!!! I didn’t attend prom in my senior year of high school, because I didn’t care for it and knew I’d be miserable the entire time there. And plus, it was a disaster anyway, I think the venue double booked or something, and since the student body of my Deaf school was significantly smaller, they gave the smaller room to them. And so people just spent time outside. And then it rained. Meanwhile, as I was one of the two students who stayed in the dorm, they