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Jesse Q. Sutanto:
hii! i wanna say that i really love dial a for aunties. i'm chinese-indo and i read this book during cny this year and it hit really hard HAHAH. i really loved the way you represented the culture in the book. so, related to that, how do you do it so smoothly? i also want to write a story with indonesians as the mcs, but i find it hard to put in the culture without making it awkward 😭 so.. how? ada saran nggak?
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Throw in a dead body? Hahahaa AAHHH. But really, I found it so hard to write Chinese-Indo characters because the drama hit waaay too close to home, and it didn't start falling into place until I threw in a dead body. So my suggestion would be to come up with some ridiculous plot to get some distance from the situation.
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Hannah
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Jesse Q. Sutanto:
Hiya! I as a fellow Chinese-Indo girl I never really saw myself in particularly romance book. Only when I read WTWU did I feel truely seen for the first time in a book. I ABSOLUTLY LOVE AND ADORE THE REPRESENTATION OF INDONESIAN CULTURE IN WTWU (I read in twice in a row) and I was just wondering whether future characters of your books will also be Chinese-Indonesian?
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