Oof! I missed this somehow! Sorry, things have been a little nuts.And yeah, ScriptFam last I checked did not have one, but your best bet for advice on writingĀ āracial and ethnic diversityā in your stories is @writingwithcolor ! WWC is a blog run by POC from various backgrounds; as they can tell you, those are not going to be interchangeable experiences, so my advice on where to start there is:- please THOROUGHLY read all of their FAQ materials. This ensures youāre definitely not asking something thatās been asked before, or that is disrespectful, both of which are categories that can get your Ask or Submission ignored/deleted- this includes many links from their FAQ to general advice posts (such as their guide to respectfully describing skin colors, and posts discussing the pros and cons of certain approaches such as the āmake moreā solution to representation), which again, may answer a lot of your questions off the bat and are in many cases just straight up awesome advice!- also do give a read through to any potentially-relevant categories via their navigation links on Stereotypes of given groups, as those will answer hopefully a lot of yourĀ āeasierā questions! I know it did for me! It also might give you some interesting ideas of non-hurtfully subverting stereotypes, which Iāve found useful sometimes for fleshing out characters, especially since some of them would seem non-intuitive to people not from those same backgrounds.-if you still have questions at that point, please check the mod and part-time mod lists to see if they currently have someone who shares background elements with the character(s) you wish to depict, because if they donāt, they may have to bounce it to their followers (for instance, last I checked, they had no mods of Japanese or Japanese-American background), and if you show recognition of that fact, itāll be appreciated :)Good luck with your story!
