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CMV: If whatever makes your character different (sexual identity/disability etc) is your main selling point, your book is probably boring.

Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I'm not talking about race. Some may think race should be included in this, but I don't. I'm not sure why, maybe because the stories I've read (featuring black or black-coded characters) have in some way centred around race and so it adds to the story. I guess as a white person I have that privilege. Anyway, this isn't about race. Knowing a character's race in advance wouldn't put me off, and what I'm about to explain below isn't something I've found (in my experience) to occur in relation to race.

Without further ado...

If the first line of a summary is that a bisexual girl with ADHD enters a realm and- Whatever follows doesn't really matter. The thing you want your audience to know is that your character isn't straight, and they're neurodiverse. These aren't bad things, but if they're your selling points then it tells me you haven't got much more to follow - that your goal wasn't to write a story, but to get something - anything - out there which is representative. This applies to gender, it applies to religion, sexuality and ability.

I mean, in an age where self-publication is a thing I guess it works. But, books can be tagged as LGBT (for example) without knowing in advance who it relates to and people seem to forget this (or, as I say, haven't written anything good enough for the information to be omitted). Same goes for the other groups I listed (except perhaps disability, but there are ways to say things without it just being a dull, monotonous list). As I say, getting character information in advance tells me nothing good. Especially if it isn't relevant to the plot. If it's just a detail then you're either a) trying to 'profit' (not necessarily in monetary terms) off an identity, condition or 'disorder', etc, or b) it's really all you've thought about and even you can't find anything that makes your book otherwise interesting.

I want to meet characters gradually, and get to know them as I get to know their narrative. If it's being spoon-fed before I've even turned a page then the chances are it really isn't worth my time.

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Edit: It would be superb if people had more examples which were novels, rather than TV or Film. TV and Film are marketed differently - trailers exist to add details, and so summaries do not stand alone. Consequently, such examples don't really serve to contest my view.
gpt
I completely disagree. High concepts are interesting. And sometimes, high concept is related to characters. For example, let's take Harry Potter, a fan-fic that ask the question: what if HP is very smart (HPMOR), or a Slytherin, or a Ravenclaw, or a Hufflepuff, or a Goblin, a vampire, a hag, a giant, a house-elve, a veela, and a werewolf? These are all interesting changes, because of how the world works. In contrast, changing HP sexual identity/disability etc, are not interesting, because those are not important things in the universe.

But then, again, there are settings and genre where changes in sexual identity/disability etc, makes things more interesting. For example, an action movie or a spy featuring a disabled main cast makes things very interesting because they won't be able to do the things other people can do, thus the author have to find creative ways to move the story forward. that is a very interesting promise.

Or take for example, dramas which are driven by people. Books open our eyes into lives of different people, with unique experiences. The book "Me before you", cannot be told in any other way, without the illness.