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by Guest9999 » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:48 am
Yes scobienz, agreed that there may well be a book there. However, the closer I get personally to such characters, the more tired I begin to feel.
When I've just met, they do have entertainment value. When I barely know them, it's more the random curiosity that might generate your book's readers - first I find myself doing basic story logging, looking for clocks striking 13, then, after that has happened thrice, or 13 times, casually trying to map out the mental pathways behind their stories. But once they transition from distant acquaintances, to closer ones, alarm bells, in my own brain sound and grow more urgent, "Warning! Warning! Warning!"
It is a hard thing to care too much about crazy people. If I have a choice, sorry world, I've learned to back quietly away.
Internet forums maintain 'distant acquaintance' well. If I had the mental health traning to write that Cambodia book, running some clever algorithms through public forum data wouldn't be a crazy place to start.