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Tag Archives: diversity
Racial Diversity When Race Doesn’t Matter
Tonight I am attending an event sponsored by Pikes Peak Writers on writing authentic African-American Characters. This Write-Brain is very timely for me, because lately I’ve been wondering a lot about how to make sure my stories don’t come across as … Continue reading
Posted in SciFi Q of the Day
Tagged African-American, black, diversity, facebook, google plus, race, SFQotD, white, white-washing, writing
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The Race Card
I want to include a diverse range of characters in all my stories. In my lunar shorts, it’s easy to imagine that the settlers on the Moon represent a wide range of nationalities, ages, familial situations etc. With the incorporeum … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80, Writing
Tagged #ROW80, deaf, diversity, GLTBTQ, incorporeum, Kingdom Come, steampunk, The Cities of Luna, Victoria
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By the Way, This Character’s Not Caucasian
Diversity. I want to embrace it, not hit the reader over the head with it. In one story, I have a daughter intertwining her brown fingers with her father’s darker ones. That’s about the only clue the reader gets to … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80, Writing
Tagged #ROW80, chickens, diversity, edits, loonies, loony, melting pot, Moon Dragons, Pastor Pastornack's Sabbatical, The Cities of Luna
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The Race Card
My WIP is set on a human-colonized world about a thousand years in the future. Humans from all over the Earth were part of the original colony 500 years ago (er…from now?) and even more diverse people emigrated to the … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80, Writing
Tagged Bobsled team, characters, Christian Slater, diversity, ethnicity, Lolo Jones, race, Ricky Schroder, Scharona, writing
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Pshaw!
In the middle of a twittersation a year or so ago, one writer friend asked “What do you call a girl who ditches her Prom to go have sex?” Another writer friend answered “Normal?” Although she was joking, she and … Continue reading
Madeleine
Hundreds of years in the future, will all 200 types of Dwarfism still exist? I stopped Madeleine in the middle of Costco just to ask. Continue reading
SyFy Q of the Day: Holidays
Before I even started this blog, I would occasionally pose a SyFy Question of the Day to my facebook friends. Sometimes, it was directly related to what I was writing, and I really did want some input to help me decide what direction to … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity, Halloween, Holiday, New Year, Solfleet, syfy question of the day, Valentines
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Rolling the Dice for Diversity
I love creating characters. It’s one of my favorite aspects of writing. That’s one reason it’s so much fun to do a series of shorts, such as The Cities of Luna, where I get to come up with new characters … Continue reading →