Or, as a native of L.A., making jokes about the riots. Second most terrifying thing I've ever experienced in my life (first was the Northridge quake).
I think it's a common problem with writers who want to write someone who has a very different background from themselves but who don't bother to do anything in the way of research. I'd at least want to read a memoir or two by someone from that geographical area just to get a feel for how they look at the world.
Americans can be so myopic.
Refugees is...stalled. I have the next chapter halfway written. I actually know how it ends. I just need to get there. I should have some writing time tomorrow night when Erik's at class, and I hope I can finish it then. Last week I was sick with this horrible sinus infection that's going around (missed a day and a half of work because I felt like utter crapola). Teach me to share a hookah w/o switching out the tip! :-o
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Date: 2009-06-22 11:03 pm (UTC)I think it's a common problem with writers who want to write someone who has a very different background from themselves but who don't bother to do anything in the way of research. I'd at least want to read a memoir or two by someone from that geographical area just to get a feel for how they look at the world.
Americans can be so myopic.
Refugees is...stalled. I have the next chapter halfway written. I actually know how it ends. I just need to get there. I should have some writing time tomorrow night when Erik's at class, and I hope I can finish it then. Last week I was sick with this horrible sinus infection that's going around (missed a day and a half of work because I felt like utter crapola). Teach me to share a hookah w/o switching out the tip! :-o