[ SECRET POST #2510 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2510 ⌋

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

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Comments

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[caecilia]

1. Read more stuff written by POC. Autobiographies especially. People (all people) tend to default to picturing characters as whatever they're used to. I've noticed that I can change that based on what I'm reading or watching. When I read a book by a Japanese author and then I go to write, all of my characters look Japanese, and I sort of naturally start developing unique characteristics, physical and personality-wise. If I play Pokemon for eight hours, they...all look like Pokemon characters. It's all about what you have exposure to and if you're a writer, even if it's just for fun, you should be reading a lot.

2. Try this as a writing exercise: write about a bunch of people, don't describe anybody's skin except for the white people. Some great food words include: milky, vanilla, whipped cream, eggnog, plain flavored Greek yogurt, unsalted butter, mashed potatoes, resembling the inside of a fresh Pillsbury dinner roll. Non-food but similar in tone: snowy, tissue, freshly-bleached linen, as white as the lightest, softest beach sand, ivory, as white as puffy clouds on a nice summer's day, white like an endless void, pearl

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[starphotographs]

tissue

...WAIT.

Isn't all skin the color of tissue? XD

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's time to go to bed because my sleepy brain took way too long to get that. (But then I laughed.)

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[caecilia]

yeaaaaaaaaaaah but I figured they could say like, "as white as tissues, like the kind you blow your nose with, but we're not naming any trademarked brands here or anything"

also: marshmallow fluff

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[(Anonymous)]

Eggnog sounds like a severely unhealthy skincolour to have...

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[caecilia]

But so delicious.

Re: Writing characters of color while showing not telling and not pissing people off

[(Anonymous)]

So does cloud-white. And anything bleached. Although I guess milk-white and snow-white are traditional, and they're just as bad.

...I guess I just really hate most "poetic" descriptions for skin. Especially the food-based ones. It doesn't look like milk or chocolate or chocolate milk or honey or caramel or peaches, it looks like skin. If not, the character probably needs to see a doctor.