It’s always easier to address your thoughts and feelings in something that isn’t to viscerally real…
Since you’re aware of it, it’s best to check it against real-world issues. Not because an android is anything like what we face now, but because people project and its better to be prepared for what will upset people who project their own cultures onto what they read.
It doesn't even have to be big.
For example, in To Make a Kinder Children’s Tale, the pale human (not even the right species) was being targeted for not being “noble enough” (not an Aelif (Elf)). The human figured it was a reasonable, the heir to the throne possibly implies it’s reasonable, but one dark Aelif snapped that there was nothing right about it.
The first time I wrote that scene out, I thought it was pretty clear that it wasn’t Earth, that they were taking care of the issue caused without having to address this targeting that could be seen to be only about skin color (though it wasn’t).
I thought about it and decided that at least one person had to say “this is wrong”, just because some random reader might have issues without it…and that was as far as I wanted our world to intrude on their issues.
Not like anyone has read it or said anything about it, it’s just there in case people do read it and decide that I must have x worldviews because I didn’t. At least now, with multiple views in that semgent, you have to be particularly obtuse to assume the worst about the writer. Shrugs
I don’t know how many times I’ll write a conflict that people will see what they want in it instead of letting the story be itself. We will see.
There’s never enough hours. You have to set aside time for things that are important and selectively peruse posts when you can’t be 24/7 invested. We all do that.
Man, the stuff I’ve let go of, in just the 2 days of travel and 2 days of Disney hell is crazy.
Can I say this? I really don’t want to care about how others will perceive this story. I am trying to get to point in my life where I can care less what others think if they aren’t all about helping me out.
Another thing is that, if is not based on any real life issues at all. I steer clear of things dealing with Earth.
Sorry if my comment came off as rude, I am just getting a bit tired of caring about things that don’t matter all that much.
Yes, you can. I hate catering, period. But this is also why Wattpad and places like it will start talking “safe spaces” and “we need to do better than toxic blahblahblah”.
Honestly, write what you write. I only changed mine because it wasn’t “Captain Obvious”.
I’m torn on what to do. I aim to read at least 300 chapters of Wattpad books by the end of this month for a book club, but at the same time I have a 100K-word novel to write and I’m far from halfway done I really want to binge this month instead of July. Hmm. I’ll see how I’ll divide my time
Hi there! Long time, no update. Been months since I last wrote anything for my story properly, but I note down scenes whenever something springs up in my head. Uni, temp jobs, volunteering, and trying (and failing) to get my driver’s license is taking up most of my life and it’s not easy to get back into it. I really hope I get the chance to write again.
I streamed writing on a Discord server I’m in, and I managed to add about a couple hundred words to my next chapter during that time. Not a lot, but it’s something!
I really want to binge this month instead of July. Hmm. I’ll see how I’ll divide my time 
technically you can enter it then. Milk it and split it into two lol
Can you write a novella and stretch it out?
I really hope I get the chance to write again.