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Q&A Weaving VERY IMPORTANT OPINIONS into a story without murdering it

There's nothing wrong with weaving your personal opinions into your writing. The trick is to be subtle about it. The reason Assigned Male Comics is... not exactly well-received, to say the least.....

posted 7y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-12T21:42:31Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:54:41Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T06:54:41Z (about 5 years ago)
There's nothing wrong with weaving your personal opinions into your writing. The trick is to be _subtle_ about it.

The reason Assigned Male Comics is... not exactly well-received, to say the least... is because it has absolutely no concept of subtlety. It's so heavy-handed with its message of trans acceptance that, in my experience, it often provokes the _opposite_ (i.e. transphobia, usually levelled at its creator). Obviously that is not okay, but the point is that instead of coming away thinking "Wow, transphobia is bad", people read Assigned Male and come away thinking "Wow, this person really hates cis people".

From your mention of killing Mao Zedong, I'm guessing the message you want to convey is something along the lines of "Communism is bad". In that case - and I hate to bring up such a clichéd piece of advice - write a story that shows that rather than just telling your audience that you think communism is bad. If you write a story where the protagonist is oppressed by a communist/socialist regime, readers will come away with the intended message. If you just write a power fantasy about murdering communist leaders, people will come away with the message "Wow, this guy really hates communists". Maybe you do, _but that's not the message you want to convey._

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-08-18T10:34:32Z (over 7 years ago)
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