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thank you, Twitter

By Sarah Kanning Posted in book review, editing and revising, general | Comments Off

Remember when Blaise Pascal wrote, “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter”? (That was in 1656 so I’m using “remember” a bit loosely, since none of us was there. Anyway.) Twitter provides a needed corrective for the expansive nature of electronic communications. When you are printing [...]

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Saving yourself from (your own) stereotyped characters

By Sarah Kanning Posted in character development, editing and revising, generating ideas , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

A few months back, I ran across a huge controversy about The Stolen Word, a short story by Lisa Mantchev, which was published in Fantasy Magazine and immediately came under criticism for its portrayal of “peddlers,” which many readers took to be thinly disguised Roma (aka Gypsies) or Tinkers (a distinct racial group in Ireland [...]

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