multicultural genre for novels Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/multicultural-genre-for-novels/ Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:27:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Learning to Fall https://booksbywomen.org/learning-to-fall-by-elaine-neil-orr/ https://booksbywomen.org/learning-to-fall-by-elaine-neil-orr/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:21:12 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9947 Between summer and winter, we are in fall, a season I have found particularly advantageous for writing.  The earth tilts away from the sun, our light source.  Yet though the days grow shorter, the light appears longer across the ground.  With this particular slant of light we begin to turn inward like plants do.  We […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/learning-to-fall-by-elaine-neil-orr/feed/ 16 9947 Fitting in a Genre https://booksbywomen.org/fitting-in-a-genre-by-anju-gattani/ https://booksbywomen.org/fitting-in-a-genre-by-anju-gattani/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:09:32 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6740 Shortly after completing the original draft of Duty and Desire, I learned that all novels had to fit in a genre. Multicultural was the in-word at the time and it appeared to “fit” my work. But when I asked myself if my characters were multicultural, the answer was no. They were characters whose opinions, values, beliefs, […]

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