WRITE AGAINST TYPE by Sarah Raplee

BLIND LONG-DISTANCE HIKER TREVOR THONASAND TENILLE, COLORADO TRAIL  2015

Want to make your characters well-rounded
and authentic? Write against ‘type.’

Oxford
Dictionaries
defines a stereotype as “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or
idea of a particular type of person or thing.”
The following examples of stereotypes apply
to different groups if people:


Mexican-Americans