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"If I were an agent..." I totally agree! Grit. Real s***. I wish it were that way too. I think there's a huge market for it. I've read so many books that are so similar that it's disappointing. They don't want to touch something that almost needs to exist. Escapism can be built into documented reality. IMO. Great video as always! Thanks!

Some of the best historical art is based around confronting and accepting the situation at the time it was created, right? Art is great when it's a lens used to view a point in time through! Can't wait to read it!

I think there's still a huge market for dystopian stories, so I'd be interested in reading yours :) Also, dystopian is a way for people to escape the reality and think "sh**, it can really be worse." I mean it can remind us that there's always worse than what we are living.

When I hear the words ‘dystopian / post-apocalyptic’ I have to roll my eyes. All too often it’s a lazy zombie/‘infected’ storyline with a small band of survivors trying to avoid getting bitten. Thank you Walking Dead / 28 Days Later - great shows but pretty much all there is to be said on the theme, for me. I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale more and it was probably you who mentioned it to me years ago as a more disturbing vision of how things might be some day (infertility being another repeated, but more plausible, theme in this genre). But for me, I love the realism of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Written in six weeks. Little punctuation and no speech (at least quotation marks), as is the author’s sparse style of less is more. The description of the lead character -The Man - watching a solitary bird fly across a lake in this desolate world stopped me dead.

I appreciate a good dystopian story :) just not with zombies because it gives me nightmares. But I think people are choosing escapism because they're afraid that the ones they read in the books (for example, a global pandemic) has actually happened and maybe they couldn't handle it. But I would love to read the story you wrote :) especially when you said it deals with a family :)

I'm working on edits for a dystopian trilogy, thd final book is due out next year but it was, obviously, written years before this all happened so it'll be interesting to see how its recieved

I've said in my video about how to write pandemics and I feel like we're going to have lots of this real-world type of scenario once ppl stop being so triggered by it. That, or we'll NEVER see it again 😂 But I believe at some point it'll become cathartic for people an esxapism like you say. People will get to that point where it's just as enjoyable to write a dystopian as any other type of books. Definitely a cool discussion!