My heart sank when I began reading this story; as a writer, I know I felt the terrible sinking feeling in the belly that she must have felt. Luckily, I continued reading and it gets better. 

LONDON — When she went blind as a result of diabetes, Trish Vickers set out to fill the void in her life by writing poetry. Then she turned to writing a novel, her pen guided by a system of elastic bands stretched across the paper. With 26 pages written, and a plot that turned on a woman whose life implodes, she began to dream of finding a publisher.
Then the dream imploded, too. When her son Simon visited her at her home, near the town of Lyme Regis in the Thomas Hardy country of Dorset, she showed him what she had written, and he gave her the bad news: Every page was blank. Her pen had run out of ink before she began, and what remained was an empty manuscript, void of all her imagination had captured.

The Case of a Blind Woman and Her Invisible Manuscript

As an Indie Writer . . .

Just one of my favorite comments to this article, The Big Reasons Indie Authors Aren't Taken Seriously

"Indie writers write because they need to say something without someone breathing down their neck. There is nothing that crushes the written word more than someone looking for the profit.

As for editing, I have an editor because I desperately need one. But that being said, there is something to be said about the unbridled written word. If the story is there and there is passion, then there is art.... There is too much junk out there that is perfectly edited and not worth one second of someone's time.

Give the unnoticed a second look. It might be worth the effort." -Rolli Daniels The Harvest - Return of the Tribes

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