Got a new idea for a novel. Pre-industrial society on nameless planet. Disabled people sometimes disappear and come back “fixed”. It’s the aliens. The kicker is they’re purifying the gene pool and replacing the people in synth bodies. I know this might trigger some disabled people, but what I wouldn’t give to be in a non disabled body with the same mind… #sciFi#ChronicIllness
Character arc… someone who is able-bodied wants the synth body, gets into an “accident” but doesn’t get chosen and has to live with their injuries. Acceptance is one of my strongest character arcs. Sometimes there is no fixing. I can’t wait to put my PhD to rest so I can write fiction again! #amWriting#sciFi#ChronicIllness
@Fury No publisher would touch such a book. I was asked to tone down on character's quest to heal his body. He eventually doesn't succeed, but they said the quest in itself was problematic, which didn't make sense since all my life I have longed for a solution to a disability that made my childhood a nightmare.....
@Fury Anyway. Sidenote. In the 90s, HIV/AIDS in Africa got so much attention that it became a lucrative industry. Victims got free food + grants to start businesses + free education for their children among many other benefits from NGOs. Thus to a poor person, getting AIDS was a way out of poverty, and I heard stories of people deliberately infecting themselves to get all this free stuff.
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