About Neale Sourna's Writer's Tidbits
People of Color (POC) / Black Historical Fiction (BHF)
POC / Black Historical Fiction / Literature / Romance / Erotica and More
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POC / Black Historical Fiction / Literature / Romance / Erotica and More
https://www.facebook.com/groups/163627582322721
https://www.patreon.com/NealeSourna
MISSION: To SHARE Historical Black, African, and People of Color (POC) Fiction author historical research references, story prompts, writer hacks, and links for writers and readers of People of Color Historical fiction and nonfiction.
Providing you with writing trigger topics and bits of history you never considered were a possibility. Or "someone" said it never was / never could have happened like that. They're wrong. And probably actually existed, was forgotten, ignored, or cast aside.
Plus, I'll be giving brief personal analyses on: character, a writer’s journey, and more that may prove helpful in creating your own colorful characters, in-depth stories, and completed published works.
NEED HELP:
WHY? WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Maybe its a tapestry image of an African Brit trumpeter for Henry VIII of England, a notice about a foreign black officer soldier who fought for King Henry VIII and his son, Edward—a man of African descent Knighted (Sir Pedro).
Or ... hm, what time periods of historical films do you love and want to see yourself in?
To be blunt, those of European descent, usually male, write themselves into the history of the Great Wall of China, Polynesia, and running with Mongol hordes.
If Europeans "might" be there, why not Africans, like Yasuke, the "Black Samurai / Black Ronin" or "African Samurai / African Ronin"?
NOW. WHO AM I…?
Neale Sourna (www.Neale-Sourna.com), an award-winning author / publisher - screenwriter - game story narrative writer, based in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, USA area. My novel and short story writing grew from self-prescribed short story exercises to work out ideas for TV scripts and feature screenplays.
My first published work was the short story "Hesitation" for PLAYGIRL, May 2002.
“Characters should have depth and reality, and be unique in their own way.”
Some awards include my first published novel HOBBLE which won Best Romantic Erotica of the Year from BlackRefer.com; screenplay FRAMES which ranked as a New Century Screenplay Finalist; and Best storytelling @ White Nights Conference Game Narrative Awards for online video game METROPOLIS: LUX OBSCURA. http://www.neale-sourna.com/scriptgateway.html
I am a member of the Writer's Guild of America - West (WGA-w)'s Video Game Caucus.
I also edit and design (ebook and book covers plus interior layouts) of the character-driven stories published through PIE: Perception Is Everything (www.PIE-Percept.com), which is my author-publishing company.
EVER HEAR OF "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”?
A little bit of everything in my life goes into my writing, because I believe in building characters who have unique depth, freshness, and reader memorability. So, they get some degree of my thoughts, emotions, and experience or that of someone I know directly or by observation.
Plus, with a lifelong love of learning and with life experience as a temp and perm employee in various fields besides writing; including: retail, business banking and wealth management, accounting, engineering, live theatre, cinema, music (vocal, instruments, and radio), erotic photo modeling, historical and cultural research, and even a little microgravity research at NASA.
You never know what comes in handy for writing characters and plots.
EDUCATION:
A MISCELLANEOUS FUN FACT.
I share a birthday with sensual and sensational authors the Marquis de Sade of France and Thomas Hardy of England.||
Providing you with writing trigger topics and bits of history you never considered were a possibility. Or "someone" said it never was / never could have happened like that. They're wrong. And probably actually existed, was forgotten, ignored, or cast aside.
Plus, I'll be giving brief personal analyses on: character, a writer’s journey, and more that may prove helpful in creating your own colorful characters, in-depth stories, and completed published works.
NEED HELP:
- How to build an idea into a story?
- How to create interesting characters?
- How to keep your writer sanity sane?
- How to see or feel a writing trigger or a character trigger and what questions can get you to where you want to go.
- Like always remembering Depeche Mode: "People Are People"
WHY? WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Finding relevant reference materials remains scattered and haphazard. Searching for historical information for People of Color isn't just as easy as digging out your old school history books.
Most often we aren't mentioned, well, not as thoroughly and heroically as European males.
- Writing historically about People of Color to bring something new to readers' minds and emotions about People of Color in History is the plan.
We are people, with the same or similar wants, drives, hopes as everyone else.
Ethnic cultures are the unique seasoning for the people we were, are, and want to be and I hope to help you find thought and feel points on cultural points of view (POV) you never considered.
- Finding material that gives us a mental or emotional writing prompt, an urge to build it into a scene, one story, or an entire series.
Maybe its a tapestry image of an African Brit trumpeter for Henry VIII of England, a notice about a foreign black officer soldier who fought for King Henry VIII and his son, Edward—a man of African descent Knighted (Sir Pedro).
Or ... hm, what time periods of historical films do you love and want to see yourself in?
To be blunt, those of European descent, usually male, write themselves into the history of the Great Wall of China, Polynesia, and running with Mongol hordes.
If Europeans "might" be there, why not Africans, like Yasuke, the "Black Samurai / Black Ronin" or "African Samurai / African Ronin"?
- Plus, marketing and making connections outside of the larger African American Book Clubs, when "lists" for Black Historical Fiction and Literature, because most are only rearranged rewrites of the SAME lists of older / classic African American or Black American tales.
- For example. Try searching for "African British Historical Fiction" sometime and see what limited material comes up. Even just African British, when Africans have been in Europe since, at least, Roman times.
- Or look for "African American Historical Fiction" that's not Z. N. Hurston, A. Walker, etc.
- Yes. Some newer books get listed but, you have to scroll and scroll to find the newer stories about older, more varied, or different tales.
NOW. WHO AM I…?
Neale Sourna (www.Neale-Sourna.com), an award-winning author / publisher - screenwriter - game story narrative writer, based in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, USA area. My novel and short story writing grew from self-prescribed short story exercises to work out ideas for TV scripts and feature screenplays.
My first published work was the short story "Hesitation" for PLAYGIRL, May 2002.
“Characters should have depth and reality, and be unique in their own way.”
Some awards include my first published novel HOBBLE which won Best Romantic Erotica of the Year from BlackRefer.com; screenplay FRAMES which ranked as a New Century Screenplay Finalist; and Best storytelling @ White Nights Conference Game Narrative Awards for online video game METROPOLIS: LUX OBSCURA. http://www.neale-sourna.com/scriptgateway.html
I am a member of the Writer's Guild of America - West (WGA-w)'s Video Game Caucus.
I also edit and design (ebook and book covers plus interior layouts) of the character-driven stories published through PIE: Perception Is Everything (www.PIE-Percept.com), which is my author-publishing company.
EVER HEAR OF "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”?
A little bit of everything in my life goes into my writing, because I believe in building characters who have unique depth, freshness, and reader memorability. So, they get some degree of my thoughts, emotions, and experience or that of someone I know directly or by observation.
Plus, with a lifelong love of learning and with life experience as a temp and perm employee in various fields besides writing; including: retail, business banking and wealth management, accounting, engineering, live theatre, cinema, music (vocal, instruments, and radio), erotic photo modeling, historical and cultural research, and even a little microgravity research at NASA.
You never know what comes in handy for writing characters and plots.
EDUCATION:
- Cuyahoga Community College’s Digital Film & Editing, Game Design Building; plus studies in Music Theory & Harmony.
- Graduate level Film & Video writing and analysis at American University, DC.
- A Performing Fine Arts Bachelor Degree from Lake Erie College, OH in Music, Photography, Painting, and Live Theater Stage Management and Theater Management.
- An undergrad-intern semester at Mount Vernon College with the National Endowment for the Arts Opera-Musical Theatre Financial Distribution Program.
- And an academic term alone abroad in Vienna, Austria just living, making friends, and learning.
A MISCELLANEOUS FUN FACT.
I share a birthday with sensual and sensational authors the Marquis de Sade of France and Thomas Hardy of England.||
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