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  • Started by Angela Neufeld
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    I've been reading this book on editing, which swears by the importance of stereotyping your characters. I.e., construction-worker-man drinks a beer construction-worke...
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  • Indeed - stereotypes are pervasive, and we have to be vigilant as citizens as well as writers!Thanks for the good words on my book. I hope it provokes discussion.
  • Valerie, I couldn't write about the South without relating it to history. I have more stories and they all are not fixated on civil rights and race issues, but in tell...

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  • "• ask questions. Let's stop assuming we know who the readership is for a given book and start talking to the writers themselves about how to reach their target reader...
  • Surely people couldn't possibly still hold these stereotypes...hmmm...hippy treehuggers in Birkenstocks...I don't think you can be a treehugger and be a wimp. Not when...
  • I absolutely agree with Anastasia and I think it was very well said. Why does race need to play a part in this discussion at all? Why was it not an option to just tell...