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Dystopian fiction is a big thing right now, and YA books like The Hunger Games and Divergent are pretty individual and subsequently are bestsellers. But a lot of stuff is also really cheesy and tr...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:27:51Z (almost 5 years ago)
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T10:27:51Z (almost 5 years ago)
Dystopian fiction is a big thing right now, and YA books like _The Hunger Games_ and _Divergent_ are pretty individual and subsequently are bestsellers. But a lot of stuff is also really cheesy and trite, and is only published to make money. But I really like reading dystopian fiction, especially stuff with political messages like 1984, and I love writing it too, but I can't seem to be able to tell whether my storyline is cliche. I'm drawing inspiration from racial injustice and genocides like the Holocaust and the annihilation of Native American culture, and trying to send a message about the dehumanization of others through the oppression of mutated humans by a fascist dictatorship in my storyline. These types of stories don't sound cliche to me, but would they to others? Or are they too cliched (and done before) to be interesting? Is this kind of topic cliche? And, if so, how would an author fix it?
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System
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2019-01-03T00:09:43Z (almost 6 years ago)
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