[ SECRET POST #1660 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1660 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[goobbledigook.livejournal.com]

Taking risks in your writing is up to you to decide. I'd just like to say that having a different skin color doesn't make a person something you cannot possibly relate to, and to say that is kind of extremely stupid. If you're familiar with how people act in their everyday lives then why wouldn't you know how someone of different skin color acts?

[citrusy-fun.livejournal.com]

+1 totally.

I was coming here to remark on their stupidity. Honestly, what I'm getting from this secret is that they have the idea that every single person of color is going to act in a way totally un-relateable to the author. There is a difference between writing a someone of a different ethnicity from another country, and writing someone who has grown up here.

In a fantasy setting, if this person is writing for a fantasy statement, unless racism is addressed in the world, or the characters treat different ethnicities different, I can't see why these characters would be un-relateable.

I'm thinking I'm losing my point here... but I'm just confused by this secret.

[elica.livejournal.com]

Well, you know that on F!S there always will be someone to say that if you're not a PoC, you will never be able to write a PoC right, hence you're a whinning white racist.
But this is F!S. Opener should just write what (s)he wants to write, and have good characters.

[judo-creature.livejournal.com]

I agree but I don't think it's stupidity, nor is it fair to call it stupidity. It's ignorance due to lack of exposure, something that is relatively easily cured.

OP, a suggestion: Skin colour determines absolutely nothing about your personality. Don't try to write black characters, white characters, or hispanic characters. Just write characters, and just attempt to naturally let them be diverse instead of all the same race.