My friend and critiquing buddy Nick Mena has just interviewed a couple members of our critiquing group, Nyki Blatchley and Daniel Ausema, about diversity in their own work and in general.
Relatedly, Nyki has just included a post on his own blog which discusses one the most profound and important reason for including diversity in one's work: realism.
Coincidentally, author Malinda Lo said something very similar in her own blog today.
We live in a complex world that has a variety of people in it and always has. There's no reason to suppose that this wouldn't be true in a fantasy or SF world as well (unless, perhaps, you're writing a dystopia where everyone is cloned or something). The idea that only one *kind* of person (or culture) has experiences worth writing about is as ludicrous as it is offensive.
It's been great hearing your opinion and i hope that you continue to touch on such sensitive subjects. You have a gift in speaking to both sides, a mediator with limitless perception. Thank you for the wisdom you have already bestowed upon myself, and i hope to continue following. Being enlightened in the most modest of terms.
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