Writers Going Global ~ Expanding The Story
Do you know writers that always keep their stories' contexts close to home–their neighborhood, their city, their state or province, their country?
Do you know writers who constantly work to expand the context and settings of their works—strive to relate to the wider world?
Some writers seem to be writing in a global environment but every country is shown through the filter of their home territory.
The Internet has been said to be making the world a global community yet many writers are staying home and creating parochial tales, shunning a growth in consciousness that could spawn attempts at a new "genre"—Global Fiction…
Certainly, I'm not advocating that All fiction be global or that all writers must expand the territory of their creativity.
Yet, with the world struggling to learn how to be a global community, it would seem valuable to have more writers working to expand the borders of what they consider as themes, contexts, and settings…
My previous post, Writing Fiction To Make A Difference In The World, began an approach to this topic and another post, Can Fiction Aid Global Peace?, took the idea a bit further.
Of course, writing in the genre of Global Fiction would mean that the writer was thinking Globally—thinking of distant lands being populated by other members of the same Human Family…
I'm putting a video in this post with Homa Sabet Tavangar talking about thinking Globally and, if nothing else, it could give writers any number of Prompts for stories :-)
Homa has written the book, Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be At Home in the World, but the video is definitely for adults considering adult issues.
Her Bio notes that she "has 20 years' experience working with governments, businesses, international organizations and non-profit agencies in global competitiveness, organizational and business development, and cross-cultural issues. "
I hope you'll listen carefully to her as she unfolds, gently, the requisites for Global Consciousness…
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