While I'm here at 4am my time, I just want to pull this out for a moment to look at. Not to rerail the thread, just to clarify and bounce around how fat characters fit within this idea of 'diverse' writing. You see this statement a lot in writers of all experience levels and ages, and it often goes hand-in-hand with 'damned if you do/damned if you don't' arguments. So, my first question, and I'm throwing this out to all and sundry, not just pmmg, is what would you consider diversity in your writing, and what is your plot reason for avoiding it?Is the point of this thread to ask that we consider more diversity of weight in our stories? I don't include diversity unless it makes sense to have it. To include it otherwise is just silly and the wrong focus. But the world is a big place, fat people have appeared. If they go off on an adventure with my peeps, they probably wont stay fat.