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SGT_Conti posted...

Just keep in mind I say this as someone who doesn't really read all that much at all anymore, and never went much into literature to begin with.

It's better to have a character show their frustration toward a society through rebellious or disrespectful attitudes than to have them monologue or soliliquize. It's boring to read about a character info dumping their beliefs and it treats the reader like a fool who can't tell what a character is like without being explicitly told.

Oh, I agree. I'm about 5,000 words into my story and I'm not doing anything like preaching. Just telling how the world is reliant on technology for everything. No one has intimate relationships anymore because they can get everything they need from technology and all entertainment is simple and bite sized. Everything is artificial, including births, food, trees, everything organic replaced out of convenience. The main character doesn't like this, but is painted as an outlier who wishes things were like they used to be. Recycling centers exist where books and other objects deemed useless are burned and converted into fuel for the city. He's not preechy, just depressed and obsessed with the past mostly.
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