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Protagonist Careers
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: 13x13 on December 24, 2007, 02:41:30 PM ---So what do you do when your protagonist has a career that you aren't familiar and isn't the typical career for a urban fantasy protagonist(cop, private investigator, etc).
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Research.
This is one I'm not engaged with, thankfully; anything I write in a contemporary setting, the protagonists will be programmers of some sort, because that's the job I know, if they're not authors, students, or independently wealthy. There's only so many directions of research it's fun to do at once.
The only problem that leaves, is that, while "wrrite what you know" is good advice, writing what you do every day so that it's fresh and makes sense to someone who doesn't do it is also a challenge. But I do enough teaching the stuff I know to be relatively comfortable on that one.
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