#WritersCoffeeClub How does your heritage show itself in your work?

I'm Arab Christian and a lot of my FMCs come from that bg. Even my amnesiac MC in my vampire story remembers her Arabic music and religion.

I rarely ever see MCs from my bg who get to just go on adventures and have things happen to them outside of political stories. If I am going to write, whether #SFF or #historicalfiction I want to write about the culture and bg I know without preaching the culture, just having it lived in