Jabrosky
Banned
I write explicitly non-white characters all the time, but that's mainly because my interests have always gravitated towards the more "exotic" non-Western civilizations. I don't advocate nonsensically inserting characters of color simply out of political correctness.
And why must the non-whites still be a minority in your world? I'm sorry, but this screams tokenism. You claim to seek diversity, yet you still surround your characters of color with larger numbers of white characters. Why can't the non-whites demographically dominate a setting for once?So my co-writers and I are all white, cis, (mostly) hetero people writing a novel that embraces multiple fictional cultures. On a readthrough of our first draft, I realized that I hadn't noticed that the single non-white race in the whole realm had darker skin, and that prompted us to make some sweeping changes in the second draft.