Can a writer write without controversy about characters of a different race from her?
In an interview with Khaled Hosseini I heard on NPR, the interviewer asked Hosseini if it was more difficult for him to write from the perspective of women in A Thousand Splendid Suns than it was to write from the perspective of [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Writing About Characters of a Different Race
Posted in novel writing on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
10 Signs A Book Might Be Written By Me
Posted in novel writing, phantasmata on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
:: I interrupt regular blogging to indulge in a meme ::
My Responses to 10 Signs A Book Might Be Written By Me:
Flawed Antiheroes. Main characters in my novels and short stories are not lovable; they’re understandable. The situations they find themselves in never “just happen” to victimize them, but rather the characters brought it upon themselves [...]
