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Going Over the Rainbow: Moving Beyond the LG in LGBT.
Growing up in small towns in the middle of the Midwest, I didn’t get much exposure to people of other races. There was not a single African American at the school I went to and only one person of...
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Going Over the Rainbow: Crush Those Stereotypes
Get rid of stereotypical characters as easily as Dorothy got rid of the Wicked Witch of the East. There is a lot of great advice out there when it comes to creating our characters. From Nancy Kress’...
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Going Over the Rainbow: Show and Tell
I recently ran across a post on Tumblr where the OP was rather distraught. They’d been told that using the word asexual to describe their character’s orientation was historically inaccurate for their...
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Going Over the Rainbow: The Trope Trap
All joking aside, accountability is something that professionals of any discipline face. Even us writers. Yes, you read that right. You, my dear writer, are accountable to your reader. Well yes, you...
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Going Over the Rainbow: Like a Moth to a Flame
This week has been chaotic at best and I apologize for the lateness of this article. As writers who write living beings at some point our characters will probably experience attraction to another...
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Going Over the Rainbow: Aromantic
When Romance is Not an Option I was having a hard time deciding where to start, so I thought I’d just do this alphabetically. ^^ I personally am between pan and aro when it comes to romantic...
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Going Over the Rainbow: There is No Fast Lane
After last week’s post I had some people asking me to explain the concept of aromanticism further. If after reading the post and the included links you are still feeling a bit confused or unsure,...
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Going Over the Rainbow: The Asexuality Spectrum
For this month’s Going Over the Rainbow post we are going to look at one of the more misunderstood orientations—asexuality. I’ve broken this post up across two weeks because there are a lot of...
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Romance novels often get blown off by the wider reading community (and especially the literary) as frivolous emotional porn (and sometimes actual porn) lacking any real substance or plot. This couldn’t...
View ArticleBlood on the Keyboard: Writing When it Hurts
Okay, so that title is a *little* misleading. I'm not talking about actual blood. Unless you're like me and tend to have random nosebleeds. Not good for your keyboard. No, the hurt I'm referring to is...
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