: Re: Writing diversity I am writing a military sci-fi novel about an international military force facing aliens. My cast is very diverse: the MC is Yemenite-Israeli, his love interest is German, his

I can tell that you've seen the risks, and as Dan says the big Thing To Avoid is the appearance of tokenism. It's worth mentioning that the diversity so far looks to be national rather than ethnic or religious, but maybe you already have that covered. Interestingly, we don't know from the first paragraph description that you don't have a black or Muslim character - I know some black Irishmen, and I'd love to read about an Islamic Israeli.

The unpleasant character? It's a contrived device, but they could share certain of the nationality/ethnic group/religion characteristics with another character, and have significant philosophical differences. That way it would be clearer that you were talking about a German, and not The German (for example).

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: I think you've come up with a good answer. My main suggestion would be to keep the excerpts as short as possible to avoid distraction from the story - a second suggestion would be to make

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: Is it okay to use â€œOff Thisâ€”â€œ in a spec script? I feel like itâ€™s a great tool for transitioning scenes. Off the Sargentâ€™s grimacing faceâ€” Off the dead cheerleaderâ€™s tramp stampâ€”

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: Using colloquialisms the reader may not be familiar with I'm from Ireland, most of my stories take place in Ireland, and many of my characters will speak with Irish accents and/or dialects to

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: I'm also going to agree with the third suggestion. The idea of a pronunciation guide is a good one, and you could do as others have done and make it part of the dialogue (for example "My

: Re: Writing diversity I am writing a military sci-fi novel about an international military force facing aliens. My cast is very diverse: the MC is Yemenite-Israeli, his love interest is German, his

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: I think you've come up with a good answer. My main suggestion would be to keep the excerpts as short as possible to avoid distraction from the story - a second suggestion would be to make

: Is it okay to use â€œOff Thisâ€”â€œ in a spec script? I feel like itâ€™s a great tool for transitioning scenes. Off the Sargentâ€™s grimacing faceâ€” Off the dead cheerleaderâ€™s tramp stampâ€”

: Using colloquialisms the reader may not be familiar with I'm from Ireland, most of my stories take place in Ireland, and many of my characters will speak with Irish accents and/or dialects to

: I'm also going to agree with the third suggestion. The idea of a pronunciation guide is a good one, and you could do as others have done and make it part of the dialogue (for example "My

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