Identifying and Representing Prejudice

I've been relatively quiet on my blog for several months as I work and take care of ill family and prepare for massive projects in the very near future. But something just happened that I feel needs to be made public - especially to the writing community.

Good writers and artists are - inherently - observers. Bad writers and artists exclusively write what they imagine, but audiences need to connect to the work through some shared experience. This can be exaggerated, of course. One doesn't need ...