Firstly the weekly w-count, that is lame this week. Only 4174, but overall I’m still ahead of the goal (which after four weeks is 21000) with 21212. Lovely number, but as you can see my “ahead” is just-just.

Now, two quotes of martyn44  , because they seem to fit together in one general meta.
 

“People like to read about people, at least some of whom they can empathise with” by David Gemmill,
and “I try to create sympathy for my characters, them turn the monsters loose” by Stephen King

And though I think Stephen King meant the outer monsters, I’ll talk about the inner ones.

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