#WordWeavers 14. Do you write characters with different sexual orientations and gender identities from your own? What guides your writing?
Welp. Yes. If I stuck to my own, my books would only have gender-nonconforming demi-bi women pairbonded with cis-het men...which, cool by me, but maybe limiting?
The further from my own experience I get, the more research & sensitivity checking I do, but I want to write realistic & relatable characters. Including sexual diversity has to be part of that.