: Re: How to build suspense or so to establish and justify xenophobia of characters in the eyes of the reader? I am asking this as a general thing, be it a race that is never seen but heard about

This isn't inherently 'hard', but you'll have some people use their higher brain to fight back against this no matter what. You use the same techniques propagandists use. You just point at something that happened that was bad and was done by the 'other'. Boom, you've got the majority of humanity on board there. You just need to make sure you describe the 'other' differently also. Even if they are other humans then you need to generally describe them in a more animal, evil, or different way.

The minority of humanity is the group that realizes that just because 1 person does wrong doesn't mean the whole bunch is necessarily rotten in terms of a race of people. To get them on board you need systemic underhanded racism, have members of the other race refuse service, talk down, in general be petty when dealing with the protagonists. Things a person knows to be racist but they might have experienced themselves, though the reason was not necessarily racism. The villains that are hated most are those that in general are often petty and relatable to real world scum bags.

If your protagonists raised in an environment like that and you show the reader this while people may not agree with the protagonist, they will understand his point of view.

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: How do you "develop characters" using an event driven format? For instance, in my high school novel, I have the main characters attend a football game, the Homecoming Dance, the basketball game,

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: Is it okay to have a sequel start immediately after the end of the first book? The sequel to my first book is supposed to start immediately after the end of the first book. Zero time gap.

: I don't understand the dilemma, just write it the way you want. Ultimately if you want a strong women that embraces her femininity, you are going to put her in a dress, have her pay attention

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