Writing Advice Please - Tumblr Posts
hey, authors!! specifically Muslim authors!! i need advice!!
so—i really want to add a Muslim character to the book i’m writing. but i have some problems.
i know a bit about the religion but not everything, (i’d do more research if i added a Muslim character) but something i already learned about it was that Muslim people generally aren’t allowed to be close and/or physically affectionate with friends of the opposite gender. and i’m not completely sure if it’s true but i also heard they’re not allowed to be queer.
so that’s just the only thing that makes me hesitate to add a Muslim character, just because in the book i’m writing i have a big cast of mixed gender best friends, who are all very close, and if it’s true that Muslim people aren’t allowed to be close with people of the opposite gender, i just don’t know how i’d be able to write them in?? plus all of my characters are queer and i usually prefer to have a queer cast.
anyways i really don’t want to be disrespectful of Muslim people, so here are my questions:
is it bad or disrespectful to write a Muslim character who is close and/or physically affectionate with characters of the opposite gender??
and is it bad or disrespectful to write a Muslim character who is queer??
it it disrespectful to write a Muslim character who does any of these things?? or could it just vary from character to character??
i hope this post wasn’t offensive to anybody!! i was just wondering so i know whether or not to include a Muslim character, and if i do, how to write them!! (any other advice about writing Muslim characters is also welcome ^^)
Wanna write a long term whump story but I can’t work out what kind of Blorbo I want. This is making me very sad. If anyone has ideas or advice please share.
There are two ways to live my life:
The easy way
And the way where instead of just using Earth which would be totally fine I build a full planet with humans but different countries and land masses for no reason
I don’t know which one to go with