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When are white authors going to learn that if you just describe the skin of your characters of color and not white characters, then you are communicating to your reader that white is the default. You expect your reader to know that whiteness is assumed. So any effort to have “diverse” characters feels disingenuous, like a pretense. Because they don’t really get it.
— Oct 02, 2021 05:12PM
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I think the prologue is entirely unnecessary. I’m skeptical of the editing decision to keep it…. It’s not like the 7 minute LotR prologue that has to set up hundreds of years of exposition. This is a single moment that can be cleverly peppered into the narrative. I’ve come out the other side very confused.
— Oct 02, 2021 05:21PM
