Interview 4: Aurora Lee Thornton, Part 1 of 2

Please enjoy the spoiler-free portion of our interview with author Aurora Lee Thornton, discussing xyr book, "All or None". Timestamps are marked for the interview questions.

• Intro (0:00)
• Tell us a little about “All or None” as a book and “Star Stories” as a series. (1:20)
• Can you talk a little about the way trauma works in your writing? (2:05)
• Do you put more thought into the trauma itself or the aftermath when thinking about the effects on your characters? (2:58)
• Have you ever started writing a trauma in (one of) your book(s), and had it take over or have more of a story impact than originally intended? (3:55)
• How do you decide what a character's reaction to traumatic events is going to be while writing them? (6:05)
• Do you tend to write characters with a specific orientation? Do you generally stick to depictions of queerness which match parts of your identity? (7:00)
• When depicting types of queerness that you do not share, what do you use to guide those depictions? (8:35)
• Have you ever had a character surprise you with their identity after you started writing? (9:05)
• What is your approach to incorporating characters of color in your work? (10:10)
• Have you ever had a character surprise you with their appearance/identity after you started writing? (14:00)
• What is your approach to incorporating characters with disabilities in your work? (15:00)
• Do you tend to write disabilities based on a specific set of references, or do you tend to write cultures that hide disabilities? (16:10)
• Have you ever had a character surprise you with a disability after you started writing? (16:40)
• Do you consider your characters’ body image when depicting them and their traumas? (17:10)
• Do you consider your character’s physical description when writing how other characters treat them? (19:10)
• What parts of your identities do you notice making appearances in your writing more than you intended? What parts of your identities do you notice seeping into your work unintentionally? (21:50)
• Do you write in trauma for background characters without planning for it to have an impact on the story, and if so does it ever leak into the story? (27:18)
• Have you ever had to stop writing a book or character because of the trauma they were going through? (29:00)

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