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Q&A Is my story "too diverse"?

Creating characters with diverse backgrounds (sexual, racial, gender, etc.) should be worked into the story if it makes sense and it should be done well. Anything else would come off as low effort....

posted 5y ago by Grumpy_Gay_Author‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:30:29Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41309
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Grumpy_Gay_Author‭ · 2019-12-08T10:30:29Z (over 4 years ago)
Creating characters with diverse backgrounds (sexual, racial, gender, etc.) should be worked into the story if it makes sense and it should be done well. Anything else would come off as low effort. Just putting them in the story for the sake of having the representation can positively affect the community but at the same time can open it up to criticism. This sounds like the type of story that the Alt-Right would co-opt as being perfect for a literal holocaust. If the character's were superfluous and shallow in nature would they be wrong?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-01-14T22:23:16Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 2