“There is nothing more life-affirming, writer-validating than having<\/p>\n
your audience, your people, the ones who look like you, the ones who<\/p>\n
have lived a similar experience, crack up laughing, wipe a tear from<\/p>\n
their eye, or elbow the person next to them in a \u201chey, that\u2019s us\u201d kind<\/p>\n
of way.”<\/p>\n
\u2014Marcie Rendon, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“There is nothing more life-affirming, writer-validating than having your audience, your people, the ones who look like you, the ones who have lived a similar experience, crack up laughing, wipe a tear from their eye, or elbow the person next to them in a \u201chey, that\u2019s us\u201d kind of way.” …<\/p>\n