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    Is redeeming a really nasty villain this way good?

    Redemption is easier and more believable (for an arch villain) if you hint at unwillingness or mitigating reasons for the evil all along - and then the reader discovers them as a kind of twist. Aaah! He didn't mean to do all that bad stuff it's because of X, Y, Z etc In fact he's a kind of...
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    marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published

    Without having read through the whole thread, I'm going to offer a somewhat different perspective... As a straight, white male it is difficult for me to get into the heads of other cultures/subcultures unless by observation and imagination. That's what we do as authors all the time, it's just...
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    How to NOT get discouraged from writing when faced with the genius of others?

    Your English is far better than my German, aber wenn man mehr langsam spricht kann ich besser verstehen. Don't be intimidated by genius, be inspired. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.
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    What makes you give up on a book?

    I really needed to get to the dry cleaners, but couldn't decide whether to walk or get the bus.
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    Suspicious followers on publishing websites (like fiction press, AO3 etc)

    That's exactly what a bot would say...
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    Suspicious followers on publishing websites (like fiction press, AO3 etc)

    I've said before that there are are handful of new members over the last year or so that don't seem like real people the way they talk/ask questions. And keep asking similar questions. On another writers' forum I've seen discussions of bot forumites which ask similar generic questions which...
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    Eidetic Memory

    Que?
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    Most recent books you bought.

    My most recent sci-fi novel features the Cathars.
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    Most recent books you bought.

    Cheese/Worms is a fascinating account regarding the unorthodox cosmology of common people in the C16. Sourced from the records of the Italian Inquisition.
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    Seduction attempts so bad that it wraps around and becomes adorable....

    As an aside... In my first ever published novel there was a long scene which was absolutely hilarious - easily the funniest scene in a book which has many humorous incidents / lines. Trouble was, the publisher said the book was way too long and he wanted me to cut it down (a lot). After much...
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    Most recent books you bought.

    The fact that they are hard to find is probably the number one hindrance to exploring commoner stories. I presume you've read The Cheese and The Worms by Carlo Ginsberg?
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    Publishing Announcement

    AI is going to kill publishing, as we know it, nothing more certain. Therefore we need to create a new form of publishing.
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    Most recent books you bought.

    Seems a bit of a generalisation for someone of your edification. Name 748 boring nobles as compared with 99% of their obscure subjects.
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    Most recent books you bought.

    In short there's simply not...
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    Most recent books you bought.

    Michelangelo invented the pizza oven.
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