Writer & community organizer. YA & SFF. Fanperson. Trying unsuccessfully to curb my social media addictions. Graduate of the 2012 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer's Workshop. Co-editor of Horror After 9/11 (University of Texas Press, 2011).

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Mar. '13

Shannon Hale: Male character function: be a character; Girl character function: love interest

shannonhale:

When I was about 18, I was in a community theater production of Robin Hood. As is so often the case with theater, there were more girls than guys who auditioned, but there were more guy than girl parts in the play. I was one of three girls cast as a silent, hooded “Merry Man.” During rehearsals it…

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