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Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
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If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.
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If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
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There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.
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So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.
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Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
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I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can’t reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
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Don’t use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively – but if so, they’ll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you’re in trouble.
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If this power could be used for good, it wouldn’t be this power.
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