Tag: literature

Basic Important Law of Writing;

If/When you put minorities in it (in your stories, your world building, your character roster), you need to make sure you keep it BALANCED

If you make the majority of your minority characters in the villain/antagonist slot and not a single one in the heros/protagonist slot (or for that matter, making it that there are more villain minority characters than there are ones that are heros), then there’s a very big problem.

You’re making a message about minorities that should not be; that they are not the good guys, that they are and always will be the thugs/thieves/villains that the irl world so often tries to unfairly portray them in. <- that message there, is not right in the slightest. It is a big slap to the face for a huge potential amount of your reader base.

If the only major female/LGBTA+/POC/disabled characters in your world/story are the ones which are the bad guys, that is not the least bit right.

It’s not even not that hard to fix if you catch it soon enough; simply either add some protagonists/heros which are of the same minority or change some of your existing protagonists into characters of minority (making it that you may not need to change the villains/antagonists at all), or change the villains/antagonists so that they are no longer a minority character. Populate your world with ordinary civilians / background characters which are of the minority. Minority does not mean they don’t exist.

If you think it’s too hard to balance out your use of minorities in your literature, then you are no longer writing properly. I won’t necessarily say your biased or homophobic/albiest/racist for not fixing such errors (though it may not hurt to assess your existing worldview on the matter), but I will however say that you’re being very sloppy/lazy in very a bad way for your writing. To do that is a great disservice to your writing skills as well as your story/world in question if you ignore such a writing problem/challenge.

Be aware of your writing, it will benefit from it.

THE GREAT BOOK MIGRATION- *bricked*

It is SO DAMN NICE to have a tall enough wall to actually be able to put my books in a legitimate bookshelf against the wall.

I’ve shown you the plant/gardening book collection in the past, but here’s a revisit, with them moved into some “new” shelves (they were used for video cassettes in the living room before) along with all the other books that I have in my book-hoarding claws. With the house addition, I get to take over the new basement as my new bedroom to settle into eventually, so we got ahead of the game and got the books moved down there. I just realized there’s one plant book out of the shot; a tall book on roses that’s put on top of the shelves due to its dumbly huge size, but I think most of you can just use your imagination to put it in the archive of books.

The amount of unread novels/manga should make it apparent as to why I haven’t been buying or wishing for any books anymore (that is, unless they’re new plant reference books), cause my novel devouring is sadly not what it used to be, I do however plan to fix that once I move into the new bedroom as the new shelving makes it less messy/dangerous to un-shelve books for casual reading.

EDIT- also realized I got part of the plant section highlighting wrong but it’s a small bit of that so it can be overlooked *had already deleted the source file I was using for this*