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The Strengths and Shortcomings of “Just Write A Person”

February 9, 2026December 29, 2024 by A.B. Channing
An ordinary person with a great fashion sense carries shopping bags up a snowy driveway towards a house. The house has a really nice sunroom out front. It looks like a ship's bridge. I want a sunroom like that.

It’s good writing advice… kind of.

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How To Write They/Them Pronouns in Third Person

February 9, 2026December 6, 2024 by A.B. Channing
A person you can't see holds up a small whiteboard to show you. They got their hands on the colored whiteboard markers again. In rainbow letters, they've written, "Hello, my pronouns are." After this is a blank line, meant for pronouns. Nothing is written on it. It is also rainbow.

Group settings? Reflexive verbs? Name exhaustion? Read on!

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12 Ways To Worldbuild Queer Inclusion In Fantasy

September 21, 2025November 24, 2024 by A.B. Channing
You've walked straight into a fairytale. Before you is a footbridge made of logs, arched elegantly over a pond. All around it is a lush garden. Trees dressed in purple flowers spread their branches over dense, grassy purple plants. It looks like the sort of place for a picnic, provided the fairytale pond isn't swarming with mosquitos.

Fantasy is a genre of endless possibilities. Queer inclusion can be one of those.

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