🔊 It’s okay to write about things you haven’t directly experienced.

🔊 It’s important to include characters with different experiences than yours in your writing.

🔊 Do your research.

🔊 Write with sensitivity and compassion.

🔊 Write from the heart.

🔊 Write what you want to write.

🔊 Don’t let others tell you what you should or shouldn’t write.