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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
Some say that a dystopian story is characterized by loss of freedom, independent thought, and restriction of information. You may also see a leader who is zealously worshiped. There’s another characteristic that you may find in dystopian stories. Fear of the outside world. The only source of safety is within the confines of where you are. This keeps people from seeking outside information and thus dismantling the disinformation needed to maintain the dystopia. In a weird way isn’t M Night Shyamala’s The Village a dystopia? They had a big lie to keep people in the village. They limited the freedom and restricted the information those in the village had. The limitation of information limited the thoughts of those in the village. They didn’t have dreams beyond their village. Their world and their lives were very small. Fear of an outside world can mean a lot of things, can’t it? In my story, it means outside of what they call the shadowland. Anything outside of the Tower’s protective shadow (they’re in a desert so a shadow would actually be seen as protective) is frightening. But to those in the MC’s world, her sheltered privileged world, anything outside of that is frightening. Those in that world can’t imagine life outside of their own lives. They are housebound which is like an aristocracy. They are caged by their own privilege but will also do anything to maintain it. And by anything they do. This is not a story with lots of nice, happy people. I’m in no way saying that you need to feel sorry for these people for their cages. At least I wouldn’t feel sorry for them. The main character is nice to some but ... not really for particularly selfless reasons. I’m not sure anyone is particularly selfless. But. Distopia. #amwriting
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Blessed are the weird people:
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”

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