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  • anghara
    13 Aug 2015, 18:29
    An anniversary approaches.
    Yes, that. Because I remember gultily offering up a thought, or a prayer, or whtever it was or to whomever addressed,during my father's final difficult weeks when the cancer was taking greatchunks of…
  • eneit
    13 Aug 2015, 08:23
    An anniversary approaches.
    *hugs* Next January it will be five years since my mother passed, and in December this year it will be 21 years since we began the slow inexorable process of losing her to the Alzheimers. Even now,…
  • pameladean
    28 Jul 2015, 01:35
    Likeability
    My problem with Thomas Covenant was not that he was unlikeable. It was that he was boringly unlikeable. He wasn't funny, he never made any effort, he never changed, he was portentous and…
  • bunsen_h
    27 Jul 2015, 22:14
    Likeability
    My reaction to T.C., and analysis, are much like yours. If you've got a genuinely unlikeable protagonist, you need to give the reader other reasons to continue, outweighing that negative reaction.…
  • seawasp
    27 Jul 2015, 19:56
    Likeability
    In general, a character has to be likeable for me to spend much time with them. It's not *IMPOSSIBLE* to overcome this, but a nonlikeable protagonist is akin to making the author swim while connected…

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