Writers, Promote Your Work for Free and Support Blind Writers

The Rest of the Story is a new news discussion group that allows its members to create a profile page complete with a link back to your web site or column. You can use the about me section of your profile to give a good description of your web site, column, or blog and the web site link appears at the bottom of this section.
The advertising revenue generated by this site will be used to start a new open source journalism site dedicated to recruiting and encouraging blind writers. The new site will feature original articles written
by the blind and vision impaired.
Among the blind and vision impaired there is approximately a 70% to 75% unemployment rate, not due to lack of ability or desire to be employed but do primarily to misconceptions. The moment some one says they are vision impaired or in my case legally blind the first thought people have is “This person could not possibly do the job”. I can tell you from experience this is a false assumption. I am 20/200 in both eyes, legally blind. At one point I was 20/400 in one eye and 20/200 in the other and yet I worked at a bar for three years and they never knew I am legally blind, the owner still doesn’t know. In my case I am totally blind in the central vision and have only peripheral vision. For normal people the central vision is the strongest point so without this nothing appears clearly however it does not make me totally blind.
, it simply means that what an average person can see from 200 feet away I have to be 20 feet away to see it.
I started writing by accident, I saw what I perceived to be an injustice being committed less than an hour from my home but yet not being reported in the local news so I decided to write my own article and publish it on the internet. Since then it has evolved into writing for citizen journalist sites.
This combined with the popularity of citizen journalist sites has led to the idea to crate “The Blind Writers Society”, again, with the intention of recruiting and encouraging vision impaired writers to create there own site. I also plan to invite some of the more experienced journalist to answer questions and give advice.
The discussion group has all the favorite features including personal pages, forums, groups, chat, as well as video and photo sections. You can also get up to date on the news with the world news feed on the front page. So join us and help support this project and promote your work at the same time.

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