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Episode 93: Queries and Quandaries

Worldbuilding for Masochists

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Character Based Question From Krista Kristia Writes Building Vendors

I started out writing a world where the villain was the patriarchy essentially and there were lots of small figures that embodied that throughout the book but there wasn't like a central antagonist figure. I essentially had to like distill down all the ugly things that I wanted to be talking about and give them a spokesperson you know put them in a single character's mouth most prominently to have that guy be the target. Very few villains are just cackling and you know raising their gallblint and saying gentlemen to evil I've actually come to love writing him because he justifies everything to himself with this one has this guy has no hesitation no conscience he's so firmly convinced of his rightness it's a weird

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