Sherri Cornelius » race http://sherricornelius.com Editor, creative writer Wed, 16 May 2012 19:12:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Your mind’s default character http://sherricornelius.com/2009/07/02/your-minds-default-character/ http://sherricornelius.com/2009/07/02/your-minds-default-character/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:55:26 +0000 Sherri http://sherricornelius.com/?p=1231 Continue reading »]]> Today’s post will probably be a rambler. I’ve been out of bed for exactly 17 minutes, and my brain is still firing with the energy of the dream I just had. It was all about trying to get someplace, but losing my keys, almost missing the bus, and so on.

And there were a lot of black guys in it. I don’t know about you, but my default dream character is white, I guess because I am, or maybe because I don’t interact with African Americans on a daily basis. I deal with more Indians, but still not enough to impact my dreams. (I don’t get out much, obviously.) So once I woke, that aspect stuck out at me. It didn’t in the dream.

In my stories I don’t really have a default character. They speak to me, and their voices tell me who they are. The details of a character always comes through dialogue. So I have a twofold question for you: What is your default dream character (presumably out of your control); and do you work different races into your stories, or just let them come as they will?

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