Shani Cipro

“writing diverse characters is a huge skill and one that cannot be underestimated.”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film

“Minority interests only become fully emancipated when everyone has full access to an entire range of characters. Good, bad and ugly… positive type-casting is as patronising as not casting diversely at all.”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film

“Consider making your antagonist’s disability incidental in the storyworld”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film

“When the ONLY person of colour in the narrative is the villain, the message could be construed that ‘white = good”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film