Yes we've established I'm different to most of you and define 'good writing' in different ways.
A member of a site commented on my work saying P5 'A woman wouldn't do that'... BINGO! That's what I'm after! I want to be able to write from any POV with any amount of bias. We are told to engage the reader and allow them to empathise with a character. In a rapidly contracting world empathy takes on new meaning. Look at other 'Art' industries to see the effects.
The Spice Girls couldn't actually sing, however care was taken to ensure the line up included at least one band member every young girl could identify with. - Massive success.
From the Telly:- Heroes, massive $$$ global success. In the cast you've got more races than the opening ceremony of the Olympic games. If we want to use these characters, we need to get them right.
You can always stick to what you know and remain within your comfort zone but here's the problem. While we've been frantically bashing away at our keyboards a whole generation has passed believing books are boring! You all want a book deal in an ever decreasing market. Maybe we (authors) must force the editors and publishers to expand the market.
Whenever I bring this up (colour), people get upset – I used to read as a teenager, in retrospect I may have stopped because in all the books I read. I wasn't in any of them.
I've also realised the cocooned authors who don't get out much, limit the dynamics of their own writing. Maybe there's a whole new style of dynamic writing which gives the more worldly TV addicts an advantage.
“Why you got to be coming all up inside here, bringing up old shit. Y'all have keep doing that. Every time up in here with old shit.” - New York African American.
“Is difficult to know, is best I call five-o? Jesus, we don't see im for 2 days. I think maybe is a problem.” New York – Hispanic.
“Excuse me young lady, I think I know you, or your mother or your sister, how are you? Have you seen my briefcase. It was here only a moment ago.” - Nigerian.
Having been fed samples of these characters by other media. Can a TV reader hear these characters better when reading than the classic bookworm?