I have been spooked as a writer to the idea that maybe someone will try and think me a bad person for saying it, but I do not want to link any politics to my books. The truth of the matter is that the US has become so hostile to the ideas of outside the US.
I do not like being called a Snowflake for saying I do not agree with something and also it makes it harder to bring books to people outside us. The thing is that the US is just not my home anymore because I do not believe in hating a person.
When I think about it, it is how elves seem to think humans are pathetic and lesser beings, there is this higher than thou feelings. When I look at how the KKK and Neo-Nazis act, they are almost have this high and mighty belief of being better when they are not. I see them as lesser than those of the elves who at least do not use their own hate at times to hurt others. The truth is that when I think about the prejudices that I have seen and even witnessed, it hurts to know that my friends can't be treated equally.
As a writer, when I think about the characters I write about, I think about all the things that I have seen and experienced. I remember what it feels like to be told, "You can't," or "you're too stupid." I remember those things. I remember doing a short story and though it was rejected and I did not speak so warmly of the feeling of being rejected because apparently student magazines do not like posting the fantasy or sci-fi aspect of things, they are more into the realism.
I am hoping that those experiences of rejection do help.
The truth is that the US is now so alien to me, I am wondering if it is really worth my salt to stay and be published by an American company.
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