SSDD.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

There's a lot of ways to write antagonists. Delving into people's self-justifications for petty bigoted behavior can be engaging even if it doesn't remotely put them in the right, and the ways they clash with protagonists can reveal a lot about the assumptions of the characters and their society.

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Ultimately "good" writing is all about execution and figuring out which tropes, writing techniques and lexical fields work out for the specific setting you have in mind. Figuring that part out is always a tricky process but it has to start with appealing to you to

Alternatively the villain can be as pathetic as the protagonist is, or a lot cooler, or anything really, as long as it serves some purpose within the story (which doesn't necessarily has to be explicit to the reader by the way, it's perfectly viable to write them to appeal to your own tastes and

If there's no option but to incur debt as an investment in the hope it will pay off, it's not a choice. Many professions/jobs require an undergraduate degree to access the further training to meet licensing rules to practise. It's not irrelevant that record levels of debt are forced on young people.

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