I've reached the half-way point of my new novel, and the plot, themes and characters are coming together nicely.

Now I need to focus on sprinkling joy in between the tougher scenes and themes. #IndigenousJoy, humour, collective love, and #TruthTelling are essential factors of storytelling. Especially when writing back to the colonial archives.

[I'm writing a spec fic-inspired literary novel to honour the Stolen Generations, and highlight the justice that is still needed. Aboriginal children commonly referred to as the Stolen Generations were forcibly removed from their families, to be trained for unpaid domestic servitude and labouring for white families and businesses. A widespread historical injustice and violence; similar to the survivors of Residential Schools on Turtle Island]

#AmWriting #IndigenousWriters #Aboriginal #Indigenous #StolenGenerations
#DomesticServitude
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