[ SECRET POST #4520 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4520 ⌋

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[Reservoir Dogs]


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[Fight Club]


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[James Dean and Marlon Brando]


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Comments

Re: Writing question about race

[(Anonymous)]

Because it was literally the biggest project of my life, that I was trying to pitch to a bunch of people (kind of like a play?), I'd already done months of research and prep before making the pitch, but was rife with insecurity and genuine worry that I could pull it off...

And this exceedingly well-intentioned person was telling me, over several weeks, that any attempt I made would be Insulting, So Insulting Y'All. I mean, there's having concern that a culture will be portrayed accurately, and then there's dismissing all good-faith efforts to do that accurate portrayal, and throwing a few insulting image macros into the mix just to make sure they get the point.

So... I'd say that a lot of my extreme reaction is tied into the stress and anxiety I was feeling at the time (and rereading my above comment, yes I was extreme). And, a lot of people have been burned with sloppy portrayals in media in the past (Chakotay from Voyager, for example), so I absolutely understand why the concern is there.

But shit, does that negativity go a long way. It almost killed the project - a good-faith effort to portray a historical period - before it started from sheer fatigue on my part.

And every time I write a character with an ethnicity not my own, the shadow of That Guy still makes me flinch a little. That Guy shifted my creative process from "How do I honour the people I'm writing about" to "How do I protect myself", and I hate the ingrained defensiveness that I have now. Defensiveness isn't supposed to be the point.

Does that make sense?

Re: Writing question about race

[(Anonymous)]

(Different anon)

That Guy is such an asshole. It's too bad that the writing community (especially the YA community) is full of people like this nowadays.