BlackHeart Biohazards

Take this as a confession: I changed several of my characters names from being very obviously poc, because I just couldn’t deal with the commentary about me overstepping as a white author, and some other comments very much just focusing on me instead of my effort as a writer. In my head they’re still the ethnicity I gave them in the beginning, but constantly having people being rude about me writing what I wanted, even in “safe space” writing groups just really didn’t pair well with my anxiety and other issues. So it’s just easier to not even try and make it obvious I wanna write “outside” of who/what I am. It’s a fantasy setting, and I try to build a lot from the ground up, but always try to do my research for the things that are inspired by real things. The names are/were also actual names, triple checked and made sure I got the spelling right and even a note with the right pronounciation.I hate it. I don’t write to publish, I write for myself, my friends, and those who just like my writing, but very negative comments just really takes the fun out off writing outside my own experiences.