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writers-potion · 3 days

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How do I accurately include diversity, and not make it look like I’m just putting it in there for the sake of it?

Writing Diverse Characters - Things to Remember

Honestly, there's no definitive answer to this.

Your characters are people with clear goals, desires and a role to play in the plot. As long as they aren't just sitting there with little else but their race/gender/disability, etc. as their ONLY personality trait, at least you're on the right path.

As for representing a diverse character realistically, here are some things you can consider to get started.

Do's

RESEARCH. There are plenty of blogs/YT vids/websites that exist to help you! Meet people!

Get beta readers.

It doesn't have to be explicit. Racial identities become quite clear early on through the setting, name, and initial description(hair, eye/skin color, body shape, etc) without having to drum it into the readers each time. Gender diversity can be conveyed through the use of certain pronouns without awkward declarations.

Character first, diversity second. Please don't intentionally create a diverse character and then think about how you can push them into the cast. Have a working character, who happens to belong to a particular group.

Read works that have represented a group well. There are plenty of non-fiction works, movies and documentaries that capture the lives of people around the world with a good eye.

Use the correct terms/language

Include different types of diversity

Don'ts

Race/gender/diability is NOT a personality trait. Please. Telling me that you have a Korean girl tells me next to nothing about the character herself.

Using sterotypes. Now, it's all right if your character has a few sterotypical traits, but definitely not if sterotypes are the only thing they have.

Diversity is not a "shock factor". Suddenly revealing that a character is actually gay and has been in the closet all this time as a refresher so that it draws readers' attention? Not a good idea.

One diverse character does all. This can often be seen in female characters of slightly dated works where one woman will play the role of supportive mother, sister, femme fetale and sexy Barbie at the same time. Don't write a diverse character who basically does everything a diverse character can possibly be. All that it proves is that the writer is lazy.

Things I personally hate seeing:

Weird pronunciation of languages. As a Korean person, I always get turned off by works (mostly badly written fanfics, yes, I read those...) that try to transfer Korean dialogue directly onto the page without even checking for the correct way to spell them out. A similar example would be pinyin for Mandarin. Please, this makes the character sound stupid throughout...

Character sticking out almost painfully. If your character isn't from the region but have lived in it for a long time, what reason do they have not to blend in?

Relying on variety shows/dramas as reference. Media representation of diverse characters that are meant for entertainment is not the best source for authentic research. I die every time someone lists a number of Korean rom-coms they've watched for "research". IT DOES NOT COUNT.

As a last note, remember that there's no limit to the kind of characters a writer can writer. Accept that our job as writers is to step into other people's heads, not seeing things from one (our) perspective - and it is not going to be easy.

Hope this helps :)

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soldier-conference-prevent-wit · 8 hours

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size-attention-memory · 1 day

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#katekyo hitman reborn #classic car #skateboard #needlework #maisie williams #writers block #ff14 #dead #sims 4 clothes #bohemian rhapsody

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alonewolf52 · 3 days

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Don't let your need for closure keep you from moving on from something that has already ended.

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patronsaintofhomosandpain · 1 day

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All that shit you don't want people to know? Write it.

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There are a lot of topics people don't like to talk about, right? Whether it's stuff society has taught us to not talk about, like sex, or stuff that's just really personal, that we'd like to keep to ourselves. That's totally fine, but you shouldn't keep that shit bottled up.

A great writing and mental health exercise is to explore that by writing it.

For example, I've never liked to think about or talk about death. So I dove right in and decided to write a very short story about the processes of death in a way that was more palatable to me.

It was a great way to confront the big scary on my own terms, and while I don't feel completely exorcized of the anxiety, it's great to get some of it out.

You could even take this one step further and burn it or rip it to shreds as a physical and philosophical way of destroying all of it.

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addicted2coke-theothercoke · 15 hours

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The writing process(for me):

-Have an interesting idea

-With minimal mental planning, just wing a chapter or two

-out of that, a million new ideas have formed, proper in depth planning and research required

-Stagnate???

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novlr · 2 days

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theywhowriteandknowthings · 1 day

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Having some serious writers block. Send good vibes (praise k!nk Soap x F!Reader is almost done!!) but goddamn is the brain not braining right now.

Real footage of me getting distracted at my PC at the slightest thing:

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writing-unrequited · 2 days

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It is hard to be found when no one is looking for you. Get lost in a forest and no one would know. But, it is hard to get lost when someone is there at your side to strengthen you and guide you.

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writersmayhem · 2 days

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We made a deal, that the loser must let the winner ask for anything. I only ask for one thing...

Let me love you.

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writers-potion · 3 days

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I was wondering if you had any tips for how to write scenes where a character is hearing gossip about them? Like an example is they're walking through the halls and they're hearing people whisper about them.

Gossiping Scene Idea Prompts

Hi :) Thanks for dropping by my little blog (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

Here are some scene ideas when a character overhears others' gossip about them:

Standing at a crowded party when the character suddenly hears their own name in a group standing nearby

Character half-asleep in the backmost row of the library/classroom, unseen, when the gossipers enter the room

Character presenting in front of the classroom when they notice a few people snickering at the back

When a character walks up to a group, they suddenly fall silent

When a character walks up to a group, a few of them hurridly leave

They hear a second-hand account from their friend about this wierd gossip going around...and they realize it's actually about them

The character takes a video of themselves/their surroundings for a vlog/short flim/school project, etc. and when they re-watch the footage, they hear something they didn't expect

Overhearing conversation at one of the tables at their part-time job as a waitress, realizing that it's about them.

Character borrowing their friend's phone/tablet/laptop and suddenly...they see a chat popup about them

An anonymous school community where the character realizes that an anonymous post is actually about them

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graceless-writing · 6 months

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“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”

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so-many-ocs · 5 months

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"why does writing take so long" because 60% of it is coming up with a sentence, realizing that sentence doesn't work the way you want it to, and staring at a wall

#🌿 writing #nanowrimo's going great #writeblr #writer memes #writers block #writing memes #writing humor #writer problems #bangers

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lyralit · 5 months

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repeat after me

I WILL FINISH MY WIP

#writers block

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patronsaintofhomosandpain · 3 days

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For the love of God, STOP MAKING SENSE!

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Nothing has to make a lick of sense!

Go fucking nuts, write all kinds of bullshit! Have fun! It doesn't matter!

If it's awful (which it isn't, I swear), you can delete it if you find something good edit it! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or whatever, I don't know, I'm so tired.

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addicted2coke-theothercoke · 3 months

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I long to kill the writers block fairy

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