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The advantages are not losing a large proportion of your audience, and not being accused of being a racist, a liar, a hater, a bigot, an ignorant writer, etc. If you use a real country, there will...
Focus on the whatever was special about the group, and make your line at the end, They loved and were loved, and shall not be forgotten. It was a "policy" of my parents to speak often of the ...
It depends on the larger context. I've read your example over and over and don't find it confusing. But the word "therefore" is odd. It implies that there's already a discussion immediately be...
Let me start with an example: It's the waiting that was the worst. The attack would come, they just didn't know when. Could be another minute. Could be another hour. Ben sat nearby, sharpening ...
To a large extent this is will be dependent upon the taste of the person reading - so you have to work out who your target audience is and how you're trying to make them feel. There's nothing wrong...
Something nobody has yet mentioned: you might want to write your story as a tribute to another work. For example, Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald is a tribute to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes sto...
You as an author must be aware of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and other issues that exist in the real world. You as a person need to be aware. How (or if) you depict these th...
I don't think you need to, and I don't include it. Racism is learned, and often by association with something not caused at all by race (like poverty, and poverty that leads to crime). Studying r...
There is more than one way racism can be present in a work. For example, when Star Trek have on the bridge of the Enterprise an Asian pilot, a Russian navigator and a black Communications Officer,...
Another program you may find useful is Archivos. I saw it demo'd at BaltiCon (a local lit-focused con) last spring. https://archivos.digital/ from their "about" page: First, ARCHIVOS helps S...
Create a fictional country if there are no existing ones that meet your needs. Or if you need to change things enough that it would be confusing or off putting to place your characters there. If ...
In scientific academic settings, the original article should be preferred, read and cited, and an effort should be made to do so. It is however acceptable to refer to a more recent one under certai...
It depends on your audience and/or publisher. If this is a paper for a class, you're probably fine. But if this is your thesis/dissertation or something you're going to publish, you need to see t...
I find myself in a similar position with my novel and it's in the modern age (1995, with a couple quick chapters in 1942 and 2020) and in the past in a time and place that actually existed (even if...
The answer I'll give you here is the same as the ones I've already given you and others: write what works for you. If these are who the characters are, then that's who they are. If you're forcing...
My answer is somewhat similar to the ones already given, even from a slightly different perspective. I had forgotten about their races because it wasn't important to me and I had not noticed wh...
If it is a scientific article, or scientific text, then by all means use the most precise term. In this case that would be either Aluminium or Aluminum. Pick the one that you prefer and be consiste...
Like with so many non-mainstream settings or ideas, just present it as normal. Give a minimum of information but allow the reader to figure much of it out. Many works use the troupe of using a na...
Make a spreadsheet. In case you don't know: A spreadsheet is a file which stores data in a tabular form. Popular software for spreadsheet making are, of course, Microsoft Excel or the open source...
In visual media - there's been a few that have worked quite well (either with limited vocalizations, indecipherable vocalizations or none). Some noteworthy examples - Groot (from Guardians of The ...
Why do writers add unnecessary commas to sentences just because they're long? While it's true that some writers, maddeningly, do not use sufficient punctuation, it's also the case that some people...
If you are in pain, you will have a hard time concentrating, which can make a conversation a bit disjointed. You will pause, catch your breath, maybe close your eyes. You will stumble over words,...
The way a character talks reflects their social class, their level of education, where they come from, what kind of people they are and how the see the world. The last one in particular is key - if...
Intelligence is manifested in how one thinks: how one views problems, and how one solves them. Eliezer Yudkowsky, author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, explains his approach to the...
By treating each of your characters as individuals. Gender is an important characteristic, but it's not the only one. If all your female characters speak one way and all your male characters anot...
