I've found (in my markedly limited experience) that if they manage to keep everything to ramps and no steps, they feel like they can pat themselves on the back - without taking distances into account. I get my elderly mother around town a good bit, and in addition to balance issues, her sciatic is royally fucked, so walking (even with the walker) gets painful FAST. I've complained to Petco Park (Padres Stadium) more than once. Depending on where our seats were, we've had to cut through employee entrances, go through the middle of a restaurant and around the far end of the park, and generally walk distances that made ME tired. My mother gets exhausted, near tears from pain and frustration...and then they invariably lose whenever we're there. And ramps (everywhere) are always on the far end - like the fact that you've got wheels under you means you never expend any energy.

Yeah, it's awful.

The Main Branch of the Library back home was a huge disability fail. They designed it with very steep steps. And no ramp of any kind originally. So they added a ramp, but it was really long and it was tiring to walk up the ramp and even more tiring to walk up the steps.

Finally a couple of years ago they built an elevator.

And this wasn't a disability issue, but the back of the library opened on to on street parking. BUT there was only a second floor back entrance. So you could find a spot, pay the meter, and still have to walk up stairs to get inside.

The whole thing was really open and echoy and noise traveled. Just badly planned all around. I lived in a nearby town in Georgia and complimented the library and the librarian said they'd gone to my home town and took notes on how not to design a library.

If I'm writing a story where it's about things people do online, how do I keep my people from seeming like talking heads?

Do it in the form of facebook quotes, tumbler posts, pintrest post, emails, the occasional tweet, etc? BTW can you link to the Kos post?

The 21st century version of the epistolatry novel/story.

I will, but I think there was a misunderstanding...someone ran an ADA post in the slot I thought was mine,

My pal Natalie Luhrs has some things to say about book reviews - thought I'd boost the signal: [link] (xposty with lit.)

I'm getting pounded with work which is keeping me from making much progress writing or beta reading currently. OTOH I think I've thought of the first sentence for Cog and the Copper Dragon (I've got the first two chapters written save for the opening since I realized I needed a little scene there). "The banshee wail ripped through Cog's slumber like a hot locomotive through butter."

Being a rough draft, there is little likelihood it will remain the first sentence, but maybe I can get that rough first chapter put away now.

Writing prompt? Social Media commentary? YOU DECIDE: [link]