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The other thing I wanted to mention about this video is his discussion of 'appropriate' / 'inappropriate' topics/situations/stories. It rang a bit of a bell for me because I've been reading/studying many other fiction instruction books/articles/works. Two things just today. A discussion in "Reading like a Writer" about Chekhov and objective writing - letting the bad guys be bad etc. making fiction real not having a moral or 'correct' perspective and also an essay by Charles Baxter called Dysfunctional Narratives which covers some of the same ground of how a writer must be 'objective' and just tell the story, let the characters do what they are going to do whether it is moral, ethical, right or wrong....
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