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@deeprun

Haha, yeah. Amish fiction is occasionally good and mostly bad, in my experiences. Having a romance with ‘normal’ people is all fine and great, but I don’t want morally and ethically perfect characters. (Not that Amish people are… but that’s the general portrayal. The farthest it seems to go against the grain is giving the MC a “streak of rebellion” or something cliche like that.)

I honestly struggle with it a lot still. It’s not that I don’t want diversity – I just honestly don’t really think about it. To me, what makes my characters diverse are their personalities and cultures, not the color of their skin or their looks. So it’s just something I don’t really think about. In my main fantasy WIP, I have some different looking characters, most looking more “middle eastern” with some that look more “white” or “islander” types, but I’ve yet to have a black character. Honestly, I just haven’t found a reason to make a character black or a specific culture that I think would work well. And my four main established characters are already very fleshed out and thought-out, and I’m not going to make one black for no reason other than that. At the same time, I feel like I should have black characters, simply because it’s realistic. I just don’t want to squish them in “because” and I haven’t found somewhere to put them yet, or a reason to put them there.

We’ll see what happens. I’m not sure what I’ll do, but eventually I’ll make my way through the issue.

(Also, your love interest is absolutely hilarious in how well he resembles just about every single male MC I’ve read in action novels/seen in movies lately. XD I love a good anti-hero, but that’s just poor writing. I personally have to laugh when people try to portray things like mental illnesses and just go completely overboard. Like, not only did this one character grow up as an orphan and was abused or something, he also has depression, anxiety, and OCD. And special powers, but he can’t harness them because of “mental obstacles”. He’s an amazing character. *sarcasm drips off*)

I’ll check out Ted Dekker. I don’t think I’ve ever read him! I really like Peretti, but it’s hard to find people who meet his quality.

@pensword

Ooooh, yeah. That honestly drives me crazy. I’ve personally struggled with depression for pretty much my entire life past pre-teen and on, and the way it’s portrayed is not only sickening but sort of… insulting. When people treat it as something that can be simply fixed by falling in love or getting a friend, it’s kind of depressing in itself. Because it’s really not that simple, and pushing the message that falling in love cures depression/etc. is just unhealthy. It’s not a message that should be pushed, at all. All that does is gets young girls and boys to think that if they aren’t in a relationship, then they’ve got something wrong with them or that they need to try and find “love” at all costs. And that is not only toxic, but leads to a lot of sin.

@naiya-dyani

Haha, it is fun. But I enjoy being in public school, so it’s a little annoying to be home. And it’s difficult to try and learn Physics by myself… XD