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People Watching
I was digging through some old notebooks this evening when I found a page of People Watching. You can’t ever hear enough about this: writers, artists, filmmakers– no matter what your brand of creativity, it’s imperative that you go out and actually look at people. I’m not talking about the standard stuff– you know, the Read more
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Women who kicked ass
I ended up doing a lot of research for yesterday’s post, and editing some of that out. One of the things I found was a list of women that you don’t really hear much about– not the wives of famous people, but women who held what I fondly think of as “non-traditional” careers. (Pulled from http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm) Read more
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Changing the background
If you look at the majority of non-modern fantasy, be it medieval, pseudo-victorian, what have you, you’ll notice a pattern: everybody’s white and straight. If genderqueer or homosexuality is brought up, it’s with a heaping helping of homophobia and transphobia; if people of color are included, you can expect to see racism that would make Read more
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Stealing from another house
It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a sore spot regarding certain elements in fiction: specifically, I’m frustrated by a glut of fiction featuring Tolkien’s Elves/Dwarves/Men, the standard Vampires/Werewolves civil war, the obsession with Norse and Greek mythology. It’s not that these elements are bad– not by a long shot. But I’ve seen Read more
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The thing about originality
I was just scrolling through my Reader on WordPress when I spotted this blog post, about a book called THE DREAM KEEPER, which involves a creature called a shifter. In case you haven’t heard, my WIP is tentatively called DREAMKEEPER, and features a race of people called shifters. There was a time when this coincidence Read more
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