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Writing An Identity Not Your Own: For Fantasy & Sci-Fi Writers
$150.00
One time

You will receive access to the Writing An Identity Not Your Own: Fantasy/Sci-Fi course which includes five sections of pre-recorded presentations, as well as resources, prompts, challenges, an editing checklist, and book recs. This class is suited to fantasy, science fiction, romantasy, speculative fiction, and dystopian writers of all backgrounds (YA, adult, middle-grade, etc.) who want to learn to write stereotype and biased-free SFF stories.


✓ Five lessons
✓ Over 3 hours of video instruction
✓ Exercises, prompts, and challenges
✓ Downloadable editing checklist
✓ Resources

Is this class a fit for me?

Award-winning author Alex Temblador of Writing An Identity Not Your Own has taken her writing craft book and created a class that teaches writers of science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, dystopian, and romantasy how to write characters whose identity is not their own.

Temblador will teach writers how they might approach creating main, secondary, and tertiary characters in a SFF story who have historically marginalized identities in relation to race, ethnicity, sexual and romantic orientation, gender identity, disability, nationality, etc. You’ll learn about bias and how it can influence dialogue, storylines, and characterization. Everything from tropes to stereotypes, mirroring, discrimination scenes, and inspiration porn will be discussed in this class.

Although Writing An Identity Not Your Own provides insight into this writing process for all creative writers, this course will highlight some specific challenges that fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and romantasy writers of all backgrounds (adult, young adult, middle grade, etc.) face.

  • "I was so kindly gifted this course, and I've loved every minute of it. It's helped me so much to improve as a writer and take even more care with how I create my characters, and it pairs so well with Alex's book, which I also highly recommend grabbing! Truly worth the price point, packed with exercises and additional resources, and a great starting point for diving further into the identity and experience you are writing with care and respect."