Let's chat about writing moral ambiguity! Antiheroes, morally grey characters, problematic favs, and all that messy wonderful stuff.
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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾"I Will Never Tell You This" in The Puritan: http://puritanmagazine.com/nevertel...
☾"Solarium" in Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelinb...
☾"Barefoot" in The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾"Wishbone" in PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾"Wishbone" video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾"Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden" in The Puritan: http://puritanmagazine.com/cherryan...
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:08 Not worrying about perception
4:25 Worldview over action
5:20 Interesting over likeable
6:36 Creating interesting flaws
8:57 Creating sympathy
9:53 Using backstory
14:30 Unreliability
15:34 Consequence
18:07 Testing the character
19:18 Empathizing instead of judging
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