The great "met-Deaf-wow" novel, with SignWriting.

[Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting]

SignWriting List
February 26, 2008

Hello Kim and Shane!
This is good news, Kim, that you are writing a novel and that  
SignWriting will be a part of it! We look forward to hearing more  
about it...be sure to re-join the SignWriting List to post messages on  
the List...

And Shane...I am all for you writing the something similar in English  
and NISL! I believe you can and will do it!

As you know, there is already a 145 page novel written and published  
in SignWriting...a mystery novel...the entire book is written in  
Spanish Sign Language (Madrid), with no spoken language whatsoever in  
the entire book...by Steve and Dianne Parkhurst...quite an  
accomplishment...

Read more about it here:

SignWriting in Spain
http://www.SignWriting.org/spain

Here attached is a scan of the first five pages of it...




Val ;-)


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On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:

> thats a very beautiful writing (in English and ASL)
>
> wow! :-)
>
> Keep it up - maybe we ll do the same thing in English and NISL
>
> (dont glare at me, Mammy Val! ;-) )
>
> Shane


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> On 26/02/2008, Kimberley Shaw <skifoot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Val and all the SW-listserv folks:
> it has been a LONG time since I've done anything on the SignWriting
> site directly ... but I am very much still in the signing world, and
> still using my SignWriting. As a matter of fact, I just showed it to a
> Deaf friend the other day, and it was so much fun to watch him begin
> to *read* the signs very quickly after I showed him how SignWriting
> works. So intuitive for us visual folks!
> So, here is why I have been too busy to put words into the ASL puddle
> -- I have been writing a novel.
> Truly!
> No, I have never done anything of the sort before, but this is what
> happens when an idea comes along and begins to grow. And grow. In this
> case, there is a mainstreamed girl who goes to a school which is a lot
> like Hogwarts, but American. But when a hard-of-hearing person tries
> to fit into an environment where spells are all spoken, things do not
> go as smoothly as they ought to. Then she encounters a group of
> witches and wizards who use Sign ...
> And of course, I plan to write all of the Signed dialog directly in
> SignWriting, and hope to find a publisher who is agreeable with this
> concept! The picture attached gives a sneak peek at some dialog in
> Chapter 6. For those who would like to follow the novel, a preliminary
> version of it appears at fanfiction.net/~artemisiably -- but minus the
> SignWriting, alas.
> All the best,
> Kim from Boston
>
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