Below is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, The Somerville Light. Robinson is one of my protagonists, who sprung fully formed in the first few pages of a NaNoWriMo project a few years back and made me go oh shit, I guess I have a black protagonist. My solution to this so far is to keep…
I wrote the below last year after finishing Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, then starting Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Tl;dr: Having my usual fictive environment shifted from the typical white perspective for a while lowered my tolerance for the usual white perspective, and nudged my…
Speak well, but not too loudly, or for too long. Your long pauses and considerations of just the right word are…