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On Strong Female Characters, Face-less Heroes, and Myriad Personalities

When I started writing Sixth Prime, I decided early on to do something very deliberate: I would make half the main characters women; I would make sure the personalities better reflected the myriad of the human experience; and I would describe characters without using skin color or any physical identifiers. You might be wondering: what exactlyContinue reading “On Strong Female Characters, Face-less Heroes, and Myriad Personalities”