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    Quote Originally Posted by Cap'n Gravelock View Post
    I know. If you haven't noticed, I also listed my nationality as Filipino so we might not have the same political climate. I just wanted to make sure is all.

    Thanks anyway for the reply.
    To answer your original question, of course a politically themed story can be interesting. Good writing, a solid plot, and intriguing characters will make any story interesting. It's just not easy to do or all authors would do it.

    We in the West forget sometimes how free our political climate is. In some countries, as you are probably well aware, it is VERY dangerous to write a political story. Sometimes, the only safe way is to disguise it as fantasy or science fiction.
    "We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scarlet Knight View Post
    To answer your original question, of course a politically themed story can be interesting. Good writing, a solid plot, and intriguing characters will make any story interesting. It's just not easy to do or all authors would do it.

    We in the West forget sometimes how free our political climate is. In some countries, as you are probably well aware, it is VERY dangerous to write a political story. Sometimes, the only safe way is to disguise it as fantasy or science fiction.
    THAT'S what I'm talking about!

    Thank you!

    Oh and it IS a fantasy story like Order of the Stick but with more elements of horror and a larger cast.

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    Last edited by Roland St. Jude; 2018-04-09 at 10:23 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morty View Post
    It would have been awesome if the writers had put as much thought into it as you guys do.
    The laws of physics are not crying in a corner, they are bawling in the forums.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reddish Mage View Post
    ....If you agree with any one of them....

    Oh.

    I suppose I didn't read as deeply as I thought (I had particular works in mind), so apparently I agree some with all, or with none of them.

    Anyway, I thought at least one had policies that I agreed with but fiction that bored me, and that there was at least one who's fiction I liked, but policies I didn't.

    If your very curious PM me an e-mail address and I'll share more than I will here.

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    Sheriff: Real world politics is an inappropriate topic on this forum. Avoid it regardless of the context or circumstances.
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