Writing Multicultural Stories: The Pros and Cons — Guest: Devika Fernando

Sometimes we can burn out on a certain genre or type of story as either a writer or a reader. Maybe in a series, we struggle to come up with new concepts that we haven’t already explored in other books of the series.

Or as a reader, maybe we’ve read so many of one type of story that the plots and characters all start to blend together. Whole parodies (and Twitter accounts) have grown up around the many dystopian young adult books. I tend to binge-read series, which exacerbates this problem a...