"Yep." -- Steve Martin as a sociologist.
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I combed through Chapter 1 and polished it as much more as I could. Chapter 2 was written awhile ago so I have to look through and rewrite all of it.
While thinking about this book over the years, I thought about creating a character that was exuberantly, self-destructively Gothic in the literary sense, and so I came up with Alistor. A hot-headed, androgynous, superhuman drug-dealer with a history of religious abuse. I have another idea in mind for a villain, so I don't know yet if Alistor will be the main villain or appear more of an anti-hero.. Or if there will be a main villain, the decentralization of that in Game of Thrones has definitely inspired me.