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Only when people feel understood and seen, not when they are shamed, can conversation and change can truly begin.
How lucky we are. So many stories out there, hiding in plain sight. Just waiting to be found.
These attacks, these attempts from a system that does not value so many of us creates a world where the outcome of these actions negatively affects us all, regardless of race, ethnicity, whether you’re queer or trans or not, whether you’re currently disabled or whether you’re currently not.
A “shift in tone” in a recent Great Books piece prompted a reader’s response. “I don’t think these targeted communities need more stress,” she writes.
My roots, traditions, language and stories all come from that place, so in writing All That Shines, I was calling home. Trying to recreate those nights full of shimmering stars, meadows full of blue green grass you could get lost in and friendships that last forever.
Your shelved stories won’t be lost to the dust. Rework bits of it into your new manuscript. Borrow entire chunks and passages freely (after all, it’s your own writing).
Saving Sunshine is also about planet earth and all the issues surrounding it today: global warming, human encroachment into animal habitats, endangering of species, and so much more.
The imaginative and fantastical landscapes that horror germinates in are great fun. And when done right they are: scary, exciting, revealing, unnerving, unexpected, funny, dramatic…you know, like life.
REMEMBER: There’s always someone, somewhere, who is glad that you were born.
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