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Hettie Ashwin🇦🇺Author🇨🇵 :
i use these assumptions in my comedy. i turn it around and BOOM⚡it blows away the stereotype
2025-07-03 16:50:41
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Kc Davis :
Keep in mind if the only skin color you are describing is when you’re describing bipoc then thats also the assumption of whiteness/whiteness as default
2025-07-02 20:38:41
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Brent Johner 🇨🇦 Author :
I’m still pondering this one. I understand the request. I understand the resistance. While the request is reasonable on its face, granting it comes with obligations that must be respected. It’s not as simple as it should be.
2025-07-02 19:51:21
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Infinitor! :
How do you go about it? Say I have a black wizard in a fantasy novel, I include it with the part that he's a musician amd a traveler? say , "Also he is black?" Furthermore I write multiple first person perspectives so a lead character needs to think 'That man is black.' so awkward
2025-07-02 16:51:33
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C.L. Carner :
I write fantasy so the "races" are elves, dwarves, orcs, humans etc... every race comes in all colors. I use languages for magic casting to indicate where in the real world a character might be from. Dominic's spells are in Swahili, Sophie's are in Latin, Eira's are in Romanian etc...
2025-07-02 17:53:28
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Book Marketing BINGO :
Then again there are often people on the book covers in some way so the race of the main characters is usually somewhat clear
2025-07-05 12:03:34
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Kat T565 :
I get this. Right now I’m kicking myself bc I want to add more diversity, but my WIPs all have main characters that could end up playing into harmful stereotypes or go against my messaging if I make them not white 😅. The funny thing is I recently noticed that my subconscious is using these characters as an allegory for my mixed identity. They may be white but they all have conflicting identities they’re born into & r grappling with 😜
2025-07-03 05:07:21
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Lazarus The Horror Writer :
That's a good point. I typically don't add that detail if it isn't important to the story. Makes sense to do so to overcome the "default".
2025-07-18 16:39:30
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Jordan Stephenson :
What do we do if it’s a fantasy and races don’t correspond to our world races?
2025-07-09 18:20:09
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Mona Bling | kirjailija 📚🔪🩸 :
I'm writing a crime novel and I will write every characters skin color (even white ones) and body size in their description. There are non-white characters, plus size characters and a non-binary character in the story. I want to create representation and do a good job with it. I'm sure it will be worth it.
2025-07-02 23:22:12
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Author A M Leishman :
Uh, if a person of color is assuming a character is white, that's an internal issue for them to resolve. Some authors leave race to interpretation.
2025-07-02 18:36:42
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gabrielle thompson | writer :
I never write, especially in my WIP, the race or general "white" features of my characters. I want each reader to come to their own conclusion of what the character *exactly* looks like.
2025-07-02 17:13:45
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Lady Kessar | Chaos Gremlin :
I’m actually playing with this in my WIP. No where does it state the race. The final sentence it says, “The Dwarves forged identity. The Gnomes danced in spirals. The Humans built walls and called them empires.” It’s an indicator the characters you’ve been reading are dwarves, gnomes, and humans.
2025-07-02 16:21:32
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followthepyro :
similarly if you say hairdresser or receptionist it is assumed to be a woman when it could just as easily be a man
2025-07-02 17:12:41
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KindredHeartS :
As a reader (and person of mixed race), I'm a little on the fence about this. While I do appreciate the author fully detailing a character down to race when it's relevant to the story, it also sometimes goes overboard and hinders my own imaginative process if it doesn't feel relevant or central to the storyline. I enjoy the book being a general guide for the creation of characters in my own mind while leaving me free to use my imagination to flesh out the details. As such, I prefer a general reference to character traits such as skin tone, vocal quirks, or hair color without it being specifically tied into a given race so I'm still free to be creative and imagine the characters in any way the suits me. Sometimes, I might want to imagine a dark skinned character as black, or Latina, or middle Eastern, or even a just a tanned white person. If it's not central to the story or character development, I like to be free to decide.
2025-07-02 17:00:32
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A.W.Barone 📚 Author :
that would be a hard no if the description is not albertly given and it's left up to your mind and you assume something else that's on you
2025-07-07 16:00:28
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James Ross :
How might I do that without anachronism? The characters can't tell you where in the galaxy africa was.
2025-07-02 21:46:24
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🆘🇺🇸ria lynn 🐍📚 :
I’ve never and will never specify race 🥴
2025-07-02 17:11:26
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AuthorUriahRowland✒️📖📚❤️🩹 :
in psychology this is referred to as the unmarked state. The default is white/male.
2025-07-05 04:36:16
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