Shani Cipro

“true diversity means being inclusive, but also authentic.”
― 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

“a character’s ‘difference’ does not have to drive the story; it can be incidental.”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film

“Historian Greg Jenner, author and chief advisor to the BBC’s Horrible Histories programme, points out: ‘If you write a story set in the past, there’s a decent chance at least one of your characters could be a person of colour, or perhaps an immigrant, or both. It’s not political correctness to increase casting diversity, it’s actually a matter of historical accuracy.”
― Lucy V. Hay, Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film