I’ve been working on a novel for the past several years – and this is a piece of fiction based on family stories. In this novel I have many kinds of characters: children, men, women, grandparents, dogs, a Maine Coon Cat. And a female slave trying to get to Canada in the maze of the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. I’ve just recently started re-writes on this – and in the past few weeks the universe (or the online writing community) has had some amazing articles by writers dealing with the issue of writing in different voices. I have lots of thinking to do…
http://www.howlround.com/why-am-i-afraid-to-write-african-american-characters-by-marshall-botvinick/
http://www.howlround.com/the-benefits-of-slavery-by-timothy-douglas/
