Storyteller Saturday! What's the biggest worry your inner critic brings up about your WIP? Would your most fleshed out character of your WIP - if they faced the same inner critic about something of value to them - have a similar worry as you or is their struggle of a different kind? (If this question even makes sense lol sorry if not but I'm really interested)
My current worry is about treating my Jewish werewolves right. I know a lot of it can be fixed in later drafts, but it’s my first time *really* exploring a culture outside of my own. I’ve touched on things like this before: my Afro-Korean hyena family, my handful of aspec characters, my brief toe-dips into writing characters with disabilities. But for Aaron and his family, I’m trying to make him authentically, every day Jewish, rather than just making casual nods, and it’s really really scary. Being a displaced Hispanic kid, mostly out of touch with the culture of my father, I worry a lot about doing this justice and being authentic and just like, super duper struggling with impostor syndrome. It’s kinda been a constant struggle in my life. I’m not brown enough I’m not white enough I’m not gay enough I’m not trans enough on and on and on. So yeah, that doubt super translates when I try to write rep
A lot of these doubts wound up in Gil, tbh. I didn’t do it on purpose, but he is definitely a vessel for my doubts, having a journey that super mirrors my own. I hope he’s handling them better than I am, but since I’m still in the thick of it, I can’t really say XD
