{"id":2687,"date":"2010-06-08T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2010-06-08T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:58:18","slug":"notsocreative_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redline Science Fiction, an on-line science fiction magazine, is inviting story submissions for a contest called <a href=\"http:\/\/redstonesciencefiction.com\/contest\/\">Towards an Accessible Future<\/a>. The concept behind the contest is to encourage stories that portray disability &#8221; as a simple fact, not as something to be overcome or something to  explain why a character is evil.&#8221; The winning story will appear in the September issue and the author will receive a $300 prize. The deadline is August 15th.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting idea, but I&#8217;m not sure what the contest sponsors hope to prove. There&#8217;s no reason why good science fiction can&#8217;t be written featuring characters with disabilities. But it should be in the service of a good story. Everything that happens within a story is &#8220;a simple fact,&#8221; whether it&#8217;s the character&#8217;s disability or a spaceship crashing into the desert. This contest seems to undermine its own ideal by requiring that disability be portrayed in a certain light. Why can&#8217;t I write about a disabled character who&#8217;s a misanthropic, philandering badass with a touch of narcissism? As long as the story is good and the characters believable, does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I think I have an idea. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5558484\/imagine-a-future-where-weve-overcome-disability-and-win-300\">io9<\/a> for the link. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redline Science Fiction, an on-line science fiction magazine, is inviting story submissions for a contest called Towards an Accessible Future. The concept behind the contest is to encourage stories that portray disability &#8221; as a simple fact, not as something to be overcome or something to explain why a character is evil.&#8221; The winning story <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2687' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}