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My name is Simon I'm an engineer, creator, free thinker and occasionally writer. For far too long I had ideas and nowhere to put them for the world to see, that's why Planet Simon was created.
I'm an experimenter, explorer and fascinated by the world around me and the people in it. My exploration goes further than the known universe and expands out to universe's I've created in my mind and put onto the creative canvas.
I'm not the person I used to be and over time I have evolved and the blog is evolving with me. Whatever this blog is in the future it's a place where all are welcome and ideas can roam free to find their magical place in the universe.
I'm an experimenter, explorer and fascinated by the world around me and the people in it. My exploration goes further than the known universe and expands out to universe's I've created in my mind and put onto the creative canvas.
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Great post Simon! It’s always wonderful when writers reflect on how they can expand. Because of the lack of positive representation in books when I was growing up, diversity and inclusion will always be important in my fiction.
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This is it Marquessa, by expanding our characters honestly and respectfully we can hope to teach out to a more diverse group of readers and that’s good for everyone 😀
Hope you’re well
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What a great post–and you even got Star Trek in there! Personally, I try to add diversity to my writing but I find that it’s hard to write from the perspective of someone of a different race or culture because I don’t know a lot about their lived experiences and I don’t want to be insensitive to that. It’s a fine line:-)
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You’ve got it exactly. Keeping to what we know seems safer and yet the diversity of the human race has rich sources of great plots to be tapped into 😀
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