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Now here's this morning's writerly challenge: how to tell the reader a character is Asian, not white, when (a) they're from outer space rather than, say, Hong Kong, and (b) much as you suspected, "almond-shaped eyes" are an exoticist cliche? I'm thankful for the warning, but was frustrated by the lack of alternative suggestions, in both the blog entry and the (mostly worthless) comments... until I realised that, being a writer and all, it's part of my job to come up with those alternatives. Bum.