Cass (they/them) on Nostr: Normally I just shrug when ppl say writers shouldn’t write books where the ...
Normally I just shrug when ppl say writers shouldn’t write books where the protagonist is a writer, until I reade a book where the protagonist is a writer and complaining about political correctness in marketing or something like that, and then I nod and go, “Yep. Maybe you shouldn’t make your protagonist a writer.”
This always feels like a self-insert thing to me unless it’s very clearly meant to be satire. I can’t help but roll my eyes.
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2023-07-30 21:30:48Event JSON
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