Daily Archives: June 27, 2012

Practical Meerkat Returns: On Self-Rising Characters

by Laura Anne Gilman This essay comes off a comment I made on Facebook: A secondary character who wasn’t in the outline has just developed a very real voice/personality. I hate (love) it when they do that… And then someone … Continue reading


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Hand-me-down People—Writing and Activism

I’m taking a break from my series of posts to ponder a problem that has grown progressively worse in the last several decades. Way back at the dawn of time—or at least at the dawn of my sojourn as a … Continue reading


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