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Okay, can we talk about the importance of diversity in your characters, please? And by diverse, I mean gender, race, sexuality, and personality.

Amateurwriter01 (K.Essler) I think diversity is very important. It adds depth and keeps your story from being to bland. I try to make all my characters in my story unique. I will try to use multiple races, genders, even sexuality. I can understand when there might not be a ... See More

lot of diversity. Like if your writing about a certain part of the world, or maybe a tribe where other races might not be present.

𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 i really try to be as diverse as possible but it’s hard to do it in a politically correct way. i don’t want to make any stereotypical diverse characters, and i definitely don’t want to accidentally make all my diverse characters villains or annoying ... See More

to the main characters. one of my main characters is a minority and one is italian (idk if that counts) so i think i’m doing okay?

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