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Shaun David Hutchinson:
How do you feel about the notion many writers and readers have that male writers cannot write female characters, heterosexual writers cannot write LGBT characters, white writers can't write from the POV of a PoC?
Shaun David Hutchinson
I think "can't" is the wrong word to use. I think anyone writing outside of their lane needs to think very, very carefully about why they're doing it and what impact it might have. They need to do their research if they're going to do it to make sure they're doing the story justice. I also think there's a major difference between someone writing a character outside of their lane (a straight person writing an LGBTQIA character, for example) and a writer trying to tell a marginalized group's specific story. I think an author should tread very carefully if they're going to try to tell the story of a group they don't belong to. Not that it can't be done. Becky Albertalli, I thought, did a phenomenal job writing a gay coming out story in Simon Versus the Homo Sapien's Agenda, but it was pretty clear she did her homework.
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Acriter Vivens
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Shaun David Hutchinson:
Hey, I have a genuine question, did your editor ever properly check the script for "We Are The Ants" because the German sentence "Ich habe dich so sehr, Papa verpasst" page 35 makes zero sense. It translates to "I have you so much, Dad missed". Apart from the wrong syntax, "verpasst" isn't "missed" as in "I miss you", but as in "I missed the train." So, no offense but did your editor ever check the translation?
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