Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers by Alex Temblador

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Writing an Identity Not Your Own by Alex Temblador A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? Its not a subject thats generally taught in creative writing programs, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar, class, or workshop, theres nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historicallymarginalized identities.In Writing an Identity Not Your Own, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is "identity," and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? Youll learn about identity terms, stereotypes, and tropes, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities, sexual and romantic orientations, gender identities, disabilities, nationalities, and more. Through writing strategies, exercises, and literary excerpts, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines, dialogue, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phasethrough the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why its important to get them right. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology.She is an award-winning travel, arts, and culture journalist who specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion, publishing in the likes of Conde Nast Traveler, Outside, and Travel + Leisure. Review "This thoughtful guide brings clarity to a fraught topic." - Publishers Weekly "Alex Temblador provides a concrete and detailed guide to the issues of misrepresentation, appropriation and stereotypes in creative writing. She asks difficult questions of writers who would wish to create characters with identities different from their own and she demonstrates not just how challenging this task can be but what is required to even approach this task with intelligence, sensitivity, knowledge and self-interrogation. In the end Temblador interrogates not just issues of craft but the biases we all carry that we may be unaware of. An essential text." -- David Mura, A Strangers Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing "Alex Temblador breaks new ground in Writing an Identity Not Your Own, guiding writers to craft characters from historically marginalized backgrounds with sensitivity and depth--a seminal guide to responsible and enriching creative writing that is both timely and timeless. Every writer who aspires to write great fiction should have this book on their shelf. Its an instant classic in the new canon of essential craft books." -Blake Kimzey, Founder & Executive Director of WritingWorkshops.com "At once accessible and forthright, Alex Tembladors WRITING AN IDENTITY NOT YOUR OWN is a helpful companion for writers. With friendliness and care, Temblador offers writer-to-writer conversations about the complexities of identity in cultural production. This book is reaching for an ever more thoughtful approach to literary representation--as writers grapple with their own and their characters identities, positionalities, and relations of power." - Janelle Adsit, author of Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing; Co-Author, Writing Intersectional Identities Promotional A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own. Details ISBN125090711X Author Alex Temblador Publisher St Martins Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781250907110 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-08-13 Imprint St Martins Press Subtitle A Guide for Creative Writers Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-08-13 Pages 384 ISBN-10 125090711X Language English DEWEY 808.3 NZ Release Date 2024-11-25 AU Release Date 2024-11-25 Place of Publication New York UK Release Date 2024-08-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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