by Amelia Loken | Jun 25, 2026 | Hope
Hope is a discipline — a writing practice — a way of returning to the page even when the path ahead is foggy. For many writers, hope in writing becomes a form of creative resilience: a steadying force that keeps us imagining, shaping, and crafting stories even when...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 20, 2026 | Disability Models
The Rights‑Based Model of Disability starts with a bold truth: disabled people have inherent human rights, and any barrier that denies those rights is discrimination. This model reframes disability not as tragedy, charity, or medical defect, but as a matter of...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 13, 2026 | Writing Craft
Conflict is the engine of story — but not in the way most writing advice frames it. If you want deeper, more layered conflict in your fiction, disability offers one of the richest craft lenses available. Disability and conflict are deeply connected, not because...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 6, 2026 | Writing
Slow Productivity offers disabled writers a sustainable, disability‑justice–aligned way to build a writing life that actually lasts. In his book, titled Slow Productivity, Cal Newport writes: “Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.” That line...
by Amelia Loken | May 29, 2026 | Disability Models
After writing about the Charitable Model and the Medical Model, stepping into the Social Model feels like opening a window in a stuffy room. Suddenly, there’s space to breathe. Space to imagine. Space to belong. Where earlier models locate disability inside the person...
