Reddit reviews Writing the Other (Conversation Pieces) (Volume 8)
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Nisi Shawl wrote a great little book about writing about people who aren’t like you called Writing the Other. It’s for exactly this situation!
Check out "Writing the Other" by Cynthia Ward and Nisi Shawl. Here's the link to it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Other-Conversation-Pieces-8/dp/193350000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474140468&sr=8-1&keywords=writing+the+other
> If you're strictly adhering to quotas, it's likely to result in bland characters whose only defining feature is their race, or whatever the quota is about, created only to increase the numbers so the quotas are met.
There are a great many ways to create characters foreign to oneself with sensitivity, complexity, and love. I, as a white male writer, found this book edifying. Why don't you wait until you've seen Saheeli before calling her bland?
> Let people make the characters they want
They did. That's what they're doing here. MtG's Creative team sincerely desires to tell a story that represents the entirety of its player base because they find that both culturally valuable and aesthetically interesting. This was no Hasbro directive.
> If I were a minority, I'd rather have fewer characters of my demographic but very well conceived, that can be used as examples of great character development, than have hundreds of bland tokens.
Again, you know nothing about this one. You just saw a brown woman and started complaining. Does Ashiok's character suffer from being agender? Is Narset more or less interesting for being on the spectrum? I challenge you to feel less threatened by depictions of what you're not and to welcome them as fresh detail in your fiction.