17.46: Monstrous Awakening
Writing Excuses
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The Removing of Agency Is Horrible
There are distinctive shifts in point of view and authorial empathy that can avoid some of the pitfalls. Lesson I learned from Mary Robinette. It's one of the best ways to to introduce that horror is not to make the removal of agency related to someone's weakness. You make it related to their strength. Their strength can serve them can do nothing for them in this scenario.
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