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Originally Posted by WillAdams
I've always respected Steven Brust's decision to put his own political opinions into characters which he as an author doesn't like, and which he expects to be unsympathetic to the reader --- as he notes, it keeps him honest.
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Novelist Kathy Acker used to teach that method as an exercise: Give ideas you hate to a character you love. Give ideas you believe in to a character who repulses you. Continue to do this until no individual character is wedded to your POV.