Characters of Colour: September Love-fest

[tielan]

The Characters Of Colour Multifandom Love-A-Thon community, choc_fic, has opened for people to claim prompts for their September love-fest.

It's easy enough: pick one prompt of the many there - either 100 words or a piece or art/graphics, to be posted at the comm on the day that your prompt is listed.

There's Teyla, Ronon, Teyla pairings, Ronon pairings, team, at least one Teyla/Ronon, and a couple of OT3s and OT4s.

If you've always considered "writing Teyla" or "writing Ronon" but never actually done it, then this is a good place to start - because if you don't start somewhere, you won't start anywhere.

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For those of you who are afraid of writing characters of colour, International Blog About Racism Week is coming up and there'll probably be at least a few posts on writing characters of colour, aliens, and People Who Aren't Like Me.

Frankly, as a woman of 100% Chinese background, and 100% Australian breeding, if I had to wait for a "character like me" to turn up on American television so I could write them, then I would never have gotten anything done! Don't even talk to me about Neighbours or Home And Away. One would think that there was no such thing as a Chinese take-away let alone a Vietnamese bakery in the happy world of 1980s White Australia...

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'm so dead. I just signed up for a prompt even though I CAN'T WRITE.

*hates self*

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Snagged a prompt of my own that will stretch my abilities to the max. You see, I picked something from Ugly Betty and I absolutely hate fashion. ;)

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

Signed up! And I poked smittywing into signing up. I went for the Atlantis prompts and ended up taking a Doctor Who prompt (Martha/Jack) and a Torchwood prompt (Jack/Toshiko). I'm really excited. I love Tosh but I never really thought about writing her. :-)

[yviwriting.livejournal.com]

In case you haven't noticed yet: sg_ep_ficathon needs you to reply (http://community.livejournal.com/sg_ep_ficathon/2325.html).

ryf

[skye1974.livejournal.com]

I am trying to get up the nerve......