AMBW, Grammar, Dialogue and more about Characters
Ranting & Raving*Sigh* Okay, Black people. This one is primarily for you. Let's be honest with ourselves. Why do you think AMBW(Asian Man/Black Woman)stories have the lowest number of readers and subscribers? I can give you several reasons. Let's get it going.
Please, please, please, please for the love of GOD and in the name of all things holy, STOP USING THE N-WORD!!!! OMG! I CRINGE when I see it and stop reading from there. I'm black, yeah, I've said it a few times, but COME ON! Really? In this setting? There are SO many other words in the English language . . Use those. And even more importantly, stop having Zico and Jay Park say it! You know if one of them said it to you, you wouldn't find that ish cute or funny. You would slap him. It's not okay. Stop that.
And diversify your characters. I don't want to always read about Rap Monster, and CClown, and Jay Park, and Bang YongGuk. Are they the only ones we find attractive? Or is it that they're the only ones we think find us attractive? I'm still puzzling that one out.
This ties into grammar and dialogue. *Sigh again* I know how we speak to each other, that's cool. We do have a tone and way about our speech that makes it ours, but do we have to write that way? Really? How can anyone get into what you have to say if they can't understand it?
It's important to write to your audience, I know that. I also know that since I have an ambw tag, most of my readers are black
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