Empathy helps to to navigate within the world in a peaceful way. Our level of empathy affects everything we do, and it affect writing as well. Recently, there was a controversy around the actor Bryan Cranston. The actor who played in Malcolm in the Middle and more recently in Breaking Bad starred in a movie called The Upside where he plays a wealthy, quadriplegic man. Some say that he is should not have taken the role in the movie and stated that someone who was disabled should have played in the movie instead. The controversy brings up a question in my mind: Should artists, especially authors, write from perspectives not their own? If you enjoy this episode, here are some others you might find interesting: On Writing and Patience, On Being Discouraged, On How to Approach Paragraphs
Here is an article on the controversy surrounding Bryan Cranston.
A couple articles on understanding other cultures.
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Intro and Exit Music Credit: Brain-Eating Zombies from Area 51 by Moolen
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