You Can't Make That Work

I want to talk about writing cross culturally and and across genders, because this book does that for sure. I mean, this is really a book about, it's about him, the immigration experience. It's about the lives and back stories and motivations and deep dreams of characters who fall outside your racial and cultural background. And i think once we as story tellers start saying you can't do that, you can't imagine that, it's too dangerous. The risks are too great. Otherwise, all us become representatives of our particular demographic, our socion, economic history, our racial history, are gender or sexual preferences.

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