So I have this story I've been trying to write since 2010. Okay, 'trying to write' isn't the best way to put it. I wrote two different versions of this story in 2010, and I've been trying to get it to really work ever since then.
Somehow, nearly 400,000 words in two novels and a plotting document that's stretched to almost eighty pages hasn't convinced me to give up on this story. Heh.
Anyway, this deals a bit with the character I discussed in my last entry. I realized earlier today that she didn't fit in the story. Her moments in the plot were minor at best, and she was mostly around because she added attitude and conflict. And because I'm still trying to find a way to get The Power of Rock to really work in print. (Someday, I swear.) I know by now that, when a character has no real purpose in the story, it's time to cut them out.
So of course, my next thought was if she needed to be replaced, and if so, by whom. I thought back along the lengthy list of characters I'd written up for previous versions of the plot, and realized that one of them would probably work. But how should she be affected by the world-ending event that starts the story?
I had one of those moments of perfect idea, when something comes that fits both the character and the story completely. In the space of a few seconds, I knew what she would be able to do, how it would affect her, how it would fit into the larger plot and help advance it. I knew how it would change over time and affect her, and how she would interact with the larger world because of it. I had a vision of her in her future, and knew just how much her life was about to change.
If I could have idea moments like that more often, I'd have a lot fewer half-finished plots, believe me.
So: progress continues apace on the new plot, with the newish character plugged in and ready to go. For all the doubt that comes with plotting a new story - especially one I've been trying to get to work for more than two years - I'm feeling better and better about this every time I finish working on it. It just needs some more time to really come together, and I need to go over the entire plot with an eye toward making everything harder for our heroes.
I have this horrible tendency to make things too easy on my characters, pretty much always have. But that's another blog entry altogether.
Finally: having an intelligent British young woman in the book means the guy who's a real smartass gets to make a Hermione joke. And get punched for it.
This is going to be fun.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Power and Disability
Ever get the feeling you're worrying about something that most people wouldn't even consider an issue? Yeah, me too. Hence, this.
I'm working on character and plot for a book. In this book, thanks to a major event I haven't fully worked out yet, people gain access to magic. And in this story, human use of magic tends toward them getting a power they want, whether they knew they wanted it or not. One of the characters is a girl who's mute - not deaf, she hears just fine, but can't speak. She learns to manipulate sound, and eventually is able to do so well enough to talk for the first time.
And I'm starting to wonder if this is okay.
Earlier this year, I read a series of stories with a cast made up almost entirely of disabled people. From reading it, I learned a lot about how to write people with disabilities. The disability is part of what makes the person who they are; it affects their life in unavoidable ways, but it doesn't define them. Like all characters, someone who's disabled needs to be fully fleshed-out, not just 'the deaf person' or 'the blind person' or so on.
The character I'm working on, I'm doing my best to do this. I know who she is and how being mute has affected her. I know why she loves music but why she's reluctant to pursue it as a career. I know why school has become hellish for her. I know the last thing she said to her parents before the world sort-of ended. I know why she never uses her full first name. And I know how she reacts when she realizes she can use her newfound abilities to speak.
What I don't know is if this is a good idea.
I talked about this with a co-worker, and he brought up the character Geordi from "Star Trek: the Next Generation". For anyone who doesn't know, Geordi is blind, but has cybernetics that allow him to see everything standard human eyes do and beyond. My co-worker told me how Geordi's improved vision was a plot point in several episodes, something essential to the story. It wasn't just an example of "Okay, this guy's blind, but not anymore, thanks to technology." And that got me thinking.
There is a right way to do this, I'm sure of it. My character's ability to manipulate sound is an important part of the plot on several occasions, and her gaining a voice is an essential part of her character arc - not that it should be any other way. I think that's how I need to approach it. It's not that an issue she's dealt with all her life will suddenly go away. It's that something has changed, and now she has to deal with it. Because whether she realizes it or not, it's what she wanted.
With any luck, writing this book will go better than my last one, so someday I'll be able to talk about how it worked.
I'm working on character and plot for a book. In this book, thanks to a major event I haven't fully worked out yet, people gain access to magic. And in this story, human use of magic tends toward them getting a power they want, whether they knew they wanted it or not. One of the characters is a girl who's mute - not deaf, she hears just fine, but can't speak. She learns to manipulate sound, and eventually is able to do so well enough to talk for the first time.
And I'm starting to wonder if this is okay.
Earlier this year, I read a series of stories with a cast made up almost entirely of disabled people. From reading it, I learned a lot about how to write people with disabilities. The disability is part of what makes the person who they are; it affects their life in unavoidable ways, but it doesn't define them. Like all characters, someone who's disabled needs to be fully fleshed-out, not just 'the deaf person' or 'the blind person' or so on.
The character I'm working on, I'm doing my best to do this. I know who she is and how being mute has affected her. I know why she loves music but why she's reluctant to pursue it as a career. I know why school has become hellish for her. I know the last thing she said to her parents before the world sort-of ended. I know why she never uses her full first name. And I know how she reacts when she realizes she can use her newfound abilities to speak.
What I don't know is if this is a good idea.
I talked about this with a co-worker, and he brought up the character Geordi from "Star Trek: the Next Generation". For anyone who doesn't know, Geordi is blind, but has cybernetics that allow him to see everything standard human eyes do and beyond. My co-worker told me how Geordi's improved vision was a plot point in several episodes, something essential to the story. It wasn't just an example of "Okay, this guy's blind, but not anymore, thanks to technology." And that got me thinking.
There is a right way to do this, I'm sure of it. My character's ability to manipulate sound is an important part of the plot on several occasions, and her gaining a voice is an essential part of her character arc - not that it should be any other way. I think that's how I need to approach it. It's not that an issue she's dealt with all her life will suddenly go away. It's that something has changed, and now she has to deal with it. Because whether she realizes it or not, it's what she wanted.
With any luck, writing this book will go better than my last one, so someday I'll be able to talk about how it worked.
Friday, November 2, 2012
When is it Okay to Stop?
"Be persistent, relentless, and unstoppable, even when you want to stop. Especially when you want to stop." --Adam Warren
"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?!" --Vizzini, 'The Princess Bride'
So, I'm writing another new book, started it this past Saturday. I didn't think that deserved its own blog entry, since odds are pretty damn good I'll start another one at some point in my life. It's a book I've always been hesitant about writing, for a few reasons. The first is that it's the start of a trilogy, and I'm really not sure about writing a book that's only sort-of a complete story when I'm still trying to get published. The second is a much larger issue, and it's why having doubts after only six days.
The book and the world it takes place in were inspired by a video game I played a ton when I was younger, a game that's still one of my favorites. I realized somewhere along the way in the world's creation that I wasn't quite being original in my planning, but I went with it anyway, since everything seemed original enough and I thought I'd changed things around enough to keep it from being obvious.
Now, nearly 20,000 words into the book, I have to admit it: damn, I couldn't be more wrong.
What I've written so far crosses the line from "inspired by" to "derivative of". The book is following the game much more closely than I ever intended. There are tiny moments that shout out the video game that I didn't really intend to put in - they just happened as I was writing. Things like that are usually good, but in this case, I feel like it could get me in trouble. I feel like getting this published would be tantamount to copyright infringement. ...yes, I'm putting the cart before the horse when the cart is still a tree and the horse isn't even a zygote, but you get the idea.
This is why I'm thinking hard about cutting this off before I spend any more time on it.
I don't think stopping now would be a waste. The planning document for the trilogy is twenty-four pages, and I already have a new plot in mind, one that would take place in this world but not follow the story that inspired everything. I just know that there's so much writing advice out there that says not to stop once you've started a story.
But is there really a point to finishing a story when I couldn't, in good conscience, even try to do anything with it? I know not everything's written to be published, but still.
I haven't made my decision yet, though I'm taking a night away from the story to mull things over. Could definitely use some advice.
"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?!" --Vizzini, 'The Princess Bride'
So, I'm writing another new book, started it this past Saturday. I didn't think that deserved its own blog entry, since odds are pretty damn good I'll start another one at some point in my life. It's a book I've always been hesitant about writing, for a few reasons. The first is that it's the start of a trilogy, and I'm really not sure about writing a book that's only sort-of a complete story when I'm still trying to get published. The second is a much larger issue, and it's why having doubts after only six days.
The book and the world it takes place in were inspired by a video game I played a ton when I was younger, a game that's still one of my favorites. I realized somewhere along the way in the world's creation that I wasn't quite being original in my planning, but I went with it anyway, since everything seemed original enough and I thought I'd changed things around enough to keep it from being obvious.
Now, nearly 20,000 words into the book, I have to admit it: damn, I couldn't be more wrong.
What I've written so far crosses the line from "inspired by" to "derivative of". The book is following the game much more closely than I ever intended. There are tiny moments that shout out the video game that I didn't really intend to put in - they just happened as I was writing. Things like that are usually good, but in this case, I feel like it could get me in trouble. I feel like getting this published would be tantamount to copyright infringement. ...yes, I'm putting the cart before the horse when the cart is still a tree and the horse isn't even a zygote, but you get the idea.
This is why I'm thinking hard about cutting this off before I spend any more time on it.
I don't think stopping now would be a waste. The planning document for the trilogy is twenty-four pages, and I already have a new plot in mind, one that would take place in this world but not follow the story that inspired everything. I just know that there's so much writing advice out there that says not to stop once you've started a story.
But is there really a point to finishing a story when I couldn't, in good conscience, even try to do anything with it? I know not everything's written to be published, but still.
I haven't made my decision yet, though I'm taking a night away from the story to mull things over. Could definitely use some advice.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
A Query Letter from Another Universe
...in which Skyborne is a Young Adult paranormal romance:
Shiloh used to think the stories of Abraxas were only that: tales from old books, tucked away deep in her high school's library. It seemed no one else even knew of them. Until the books opened on their own, and created a path to that other world, letting through something horrific. Abraxas's gods of conquest, betrayal, and destruction have decided they want Earth as their new home, and Shiloh may be the only one who can stop them.
Too bad she has no idea how. Tasked by several of Abraxas's other gods with binding the dark gods back into their books, Shiloh finds herself in far, far over her head. The dark gods plan to enact a ritual on the winter solstice that will cast their influence across the entire world, with Shiloh's school as the ritual site.
On top of all that, Shiloh's just been asked to the winter formal . . . by Alexi, a girl from the dance team, sparking feelings Shiloh didn't quite know she had. This only grows more complicated when Alexi reveals she's originally from Abraxas. She's not sure how she came to Earth, but intends to return home once the gods' problems are solved, and would love to take Shiloh back with her. Among Alexi's people, fighting together signifies a kind of marriage, and Alexi is just itching for a battle.
The dark gods' influence quickly spreads throughout the student body - violent classmates patrol the corridors, the student council ousts the teachers and staff, and every parent or authority figure Shiloh can find has fallen under the influence of a web of lies. What little Shiloh is able to figure out from the books of Abraxas suggests a magical way to stop the ritual, but Shiloh has no magic. Doesn't she?
Now, with the dark gods' ritual drawing near, Shiloh must figure out how she truly wants to handle things. Should she destroy the Abraxas books, and hope that ends the dark gods' influence? Should she give the three gods what they want, and escape to her beloved fantasy world? Or should she take a stand, and fight back against the dark gods, with only Alexi to help her? Time is running short, the dance on the winter solstice is coming soon. . . .
And everything changes when Shiloh learns to fly.
It should be clear by now that I have no idea how to write a Young Adult paranormal romance. I came up with this after reading some tweets from Juliana Haygert wherein she talked about the issues with writing summaries for different genres of books. I thought it would be interesting to write a pseudo-query for Skyborne as something very different from what it actually is.
Curious to see what people think of this. And if nothing else, I laughed a lot writing this. High school is bloody ridiculous on its own, adding some vengeful gods might actually be over the top. Heh!
Shiloh used to think the stories of Abraxas were only that: tales from old books, tucked away deep in her high school's library. It seemed no one else even knew of them. Until the books opened on their own, and created a path to that other world, letting through something horrific. Abraxas's gods of conquest, betrayal, and destruction have decided they want Earth as their new home, and Shiloh may be the only one who can stop them.
Too bad she has no idea how. Tasked by several of Abraxas's other gods with binding the dark gods back into their books, Shiloh finds herself in far, far over her head. The dark gods plan to enact a ritual on the winter solstice that will cast their influence across the entire world, with Shiloh's school as the ritual site.
On top of all that, Shiloh's just been asked to the winter formal . . . by Alexi, a girl from the dance team, sparking feelings Shiloh didn't quite know she had. This only grows more complicated when Alexi reveals she's originally from Abraxas. She's not sure how she came to Earth, but intends to return home once the gods' problems are solved, and would love to take Shiloh back with her. Among Alexi's people, fighting together signifies a kind of marriage, and Alexi is just itching for a battle.
The dark gods' influence quickly spreads throughout the student body - violent classmates patrol the corridors, the student council ousts the teachers and staff, and every parent or authority figure Shiloh can find has fallen under the influence of a web of lies. What little Shiloh is able to figure out from the books of Abraxas suggests a magical way to stop the ritual, but Shiloh has no magic. Doesn't she?
Now, with the dark gods' ritual drawing near, Shiloh must figure out how she truly wants to handle things. Should she destroy the Abraxas books, and hope that ends the dark gods' influence? Should she give the three gods what they want, and escape to her beloved fantasy world? Or should she take a stand, and fight back against the dark gods, with only Alexi to help her? Time is running short, the dance on the winter solstice is coming soon. . . .
And everything changes when Shiloh learns to fly.
It should be clear by now that I have no idea how to write a Young Adult paranormal romance. I came up with this after reading some tweets from Juliana Haygert wherein she talked about the issues with writing summaries for different genres of books. I thought it would be interesting to write a pseudo-query for Skyborne as something very different from what it actually is.
Curious to see what people think of this. And if nothing else, I laughed a lot writing this. High school is bloody ridiculous on its own, adding some vengeful gods might actually be over the top. Heh!
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Apologies to a Story.
Dear story I'm plotting:
I'm sorry I ignored you, disregarded you, and otherwise neglected you for this long.
I'm sorry I came up with silly reasons why I wasn't going to write you. I thought writing you would be a bad idea, because I've plotted you and your kin as a trilogy, and writing you didn't seem like a good idea. I'd like to think you'd understand - it's easier to sell a stand-alone story than the first part of a series. I think. I'm not entirely sure, now that I think about it. Would a would-be agent be glad to know the writer has more planned?
I'm sorry for my ignorance, story, because it's led to you not getting written.
I'm sorry I neglected you in favor of something I swore I could make work. Again, I'd like to think you'd understand. I mean, I've already written two versions of that story, so who could blame me for thinking the third time would be the charm? I'm further sorry I deliberately ignored you while I struggled with plotting that other story, all those nights I tried to figure out why it always, always seemed like there was something wrong with the plot. I appreciate your patience while I went through revision after revision.
Though I think I heard you laughing at the relief I felt when I decided to let that other story go. I forgive you. A little bit of schadenfreude on your part is more than warranted.
More than anything, I'm sorry you've had to wait so long. I'm sorry I didn't start working on you two months ago, while I instead wrote 103,000 words I hope to never look at again. Hell, I'm sorry I fought against the basic idea behind you for years, because I didn't think I could pull it off. I appreciate you proving me wrong as soon as I started working on you.
I hope you'll forgive me. I hope we'll work together to create something awesome. And I hope I'll be able to start on you soon.
Dear Self:
I apologize for making a blog entry after I've been drinking.
I'm sorry I ignored you, disregarded you, and otherwise neglected you for this long.
I'm sorry I came up with silly reasons why I wasn't going to write you. I thought writing you would be a bad idea, because I've plotted you and your kin as a trilogy, and writing you didn't seem like a good idea. I'd like to think you'd understand - it's easier to sell a stand-alone story than the first part of a series. I think. I'm not entirely sure, now that I think about it. Would a would-be agent be glad to know the writer has more planned?
I'm sorry for my ignorance, story, because it's led to you not getting written.
I'm sorry I neglected you in favor of something I swore I could make work. Again, I'd like to think you'd understand. I mean, I've already written two versions of that story, so who could blame me for thinking the third time would be the charm? I'm further sorry I deliberately ignored you while I struggled with plotting that other story, all those nights I tried to figure out why it always, always seemed like there was something wrong with the plot. I appreciate your patience while I went through revision after revision.
Though I think I heard you laughing at the relief I felt when I decided to let that other story go. I forgive you. A little bit of schadenfreude on your part is more than warranted.
More than anything, I'm sorry you've had to wait so long. I'm sorry I didn't start working on you two months ago, while I instead wrote 103,000 words I hope to never look at again. Hell, I'm sorry I fought against the basic idea behind you for years, because I didn't think I could pull it off. I appreciate you proving me wrong as soon as I started working on you.
I hope you'll forgive me. I hope we'll work together to create something awesome. And I hope I'll be able to start on you soon.
Dear Self:
I apologize for making a blog entry after I've been drinking.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
It's Not Time to Write that. Yet.
I've seen many experienced authors give a simple bit of advice: write down everything. They offer different reasons for this, but they all amount to the same thing. If you don't write something down, you might forget it.
There's a long file on my computer, called "untitled world notes", because I have no idea what else to call it. The notes themselves started as just a few pages of ideas about a world with a magic system I've never before. Yes, some people say every idea has been done, and the only difference is in execution. (Some won't even concede that last point.) I loved the world and magic I'd come up with, but there was a serious problem: I had no real story. Not yet.
That changed a little while back.
Inspiration strikes in the oddest places. I was at Dragon*Con with friends, at the Tolkien-themed event called "An Evening at Bree". My mind started wandering, and as I was already surrounded by elves, I started thinking of how to do elves differently. What I came up with fit perfectly into the world I'd created several years ago.
All of a sudden, boom, I had something greater - I had the start of a story. No, I had the start of dozens of stories. An epic series in this world started taking shape in my head. When I got back home, I sat down with the old notes file and started taking new notes. I fleshed out as much as I could of the elves, worked out their relations with the humans and some of their history, figured out how they deal with this world's magic. And somewhere in there, I realized something else:
Writing in this world, doing these stories justice and putting together the dozens of elements I want to incorporate, will take a long, long time. There's political and social manipulation going on that will take several books to play out. There are so many things to determine before I even know where to start. To put it simply, not only am I not ready to write this, I'm not yet good enough to write this.
It's a weird thing to realize my limitations like that. My confidence in my writing waxes and wanes, but this is the first time I've ever come up with something and had to admit I'm just not capable of doing this the way I want to. Yet. I have the seeds of the first few stories, I have an idea of where things will go, I have a few characters slowly forming themselves in my head. And I'm writing all of it down.
I don't want to risk losing any of this. The day will come when I'm able to put this whole puzzle together, when I can plan a dozen books in advance and let things play out as they should. When that time comes, I'll still have all the notes I've ever written for this story.
Lots of things will change by then, I'm sure. But I'm also pretty sure it will start with a morbid revelation followed by something blowing up. Seems like a good way to get things going.
There's a long file on my computer, called "untitled world notes", because I have no idea what else to call it. The notes themselves started as just a few pages of ideas about a world with a magic system I've never before. Yes, some people say every idea has been done, and the only difference is in execution. (Some won't even concede that last point.) I loved the world and magic I'd come up with, but there was a serious problem: I had no real story. Not yet.
That changed a little while back.
Inspiration strikes in the oddest places. I was at Dragon*Con with friends, at the Tolkien-themed event called "An Evening at Bree". My mind started wandering, and as I was already surrounded by elves, I started thinking of how to do elves differently. What I came up with fit perfectly into the world I'd created several years ago.
All of a sudden, boom, I had something greater - I had the start of a story. No, I had the start of dozens of stories. An epic series in this world started taking shape in my head. When I got back home, I sat down with the old notes file and started taking new notes. I fleshed out as much as I could of the elves, worked out their relations with the humans and some of their history, figured out how they deal with this world's magic. And somewhere in there, I realized something else:
Writing in this world, doing these stories justice and putting together the dozens of elements I want to incorporate, will take a long, long time. There's political and social manipulation going on that will take several books to play out. There are so many things to determine before I even know where to start. To put it simply, not only am I not ready to write this, I'm not yet good enough to write this.
It's a weird thing to realize my limitations like that. My confidence in my writing waxes and wanes, but this is the first time I've ever come up with something and had to admit I'm just not capable of doing this the way I want to. Yet. I have the seeds of the first few stories, I have an idea of where things will go, I have a few characters slowly forming themselves in my head. And I'm writing all of it down.
I don't want to risk losing any of this. The day will come when I'm able to put this whole puzzle together, when I can plan a dozen books in advance and let things play out as they should. When that time comes, I'll still have all the notes I've ever written for this story.
Lots of things will change by then, I'm sure. But I'm also pretty sure it will start with a morbid revelation followed by something blowing up. Seems like a good way to get things going.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Figuring it Out - Emphasis on "Out".
Warning: the following blog entry contains a link to a TV Tropes page. Your free time may be at risk. Please attempt to avoid clicking the link if you have things you want to get done today.
Aside from the obvious distraction and "ooh, that sounds interesting" uses, I use TV Tropes a bit for research. It often helps to know how something's been done elsewhere, so I can better figure out how I want to use it. So when I found the page for Coming Out Story, I started reading with Skyborne in mind. In my book, the two main characters are both women, and they end up together in the end. But reading through the page made me realize something.
The whole "coming out to someone" thing? It doesn't work for Skyborne at all.
The main character, Shiloh, only truly realizes what she feels for her companion, Alexi, toward the end. And seeing as how Alexi makes no attempt to hide either her sexuality or her attraction toward Shiloh, it wasn't like Shiloh could just say "Oh, by the way, it's all mutual now" or something equally ridiculous. I started really considering Shiloh's sexuality, and realized she had the same issue some of the people discussed on the TV Tropes page had:
Shiloh needed to come out to herself.
Where Shiloh grew up, there's an emphasis on getting married and having children, and people who don't have kids are seen as selfish. It takes meeting Alexi, who's from a much more open culture, to make Shiloh realize how restricted her home life was. It takes being around Alexi to make Shiloh realize she was never interested in the people her culture said she should be. And it takes their journey together to make Shiloh realize what she never felt for anyone else.
I've been writing these two in one form or another since 2002. In their stories, it's never a question of if they'll get together, only when. But Skyborne is the first of their stories I've truly tried to get published. So getting this right has become very, very important to me, and in the edit/polish I'm doing now, I think I've finally figured it out.
Another reason why I'm doing this entry now: another author with LGBT main characters, Adrien-Luc Sanders, is doing a promotion for his book, From the Ashes. He's trying to get it into Amazon's top 100, a worthy goal for any author. Drop by and take a look, won't you?
Win $500 or $250 Visa Gift Cards or a manuscript crit if From the Ashes reaches the Amazon top 100!
Contest Rules / Entry Page | Buy on Amazon | Add to GoodReads
Aside from the obvious distraction and "ooh, that sounds interesting" uses, I use TV Tropes a bit for research. It often helps to know how something's been done elsewhere, so I can better figure out how I want to use it. So when I found the page for Coming Out Story, I started reading with Skyborne in mind. In my book, the two main characters are both women, and they end up together in the end. But reading through the page made me realize something.
The whole "coming out to someone" thing? It doesn't work for Skyborne at all.
The main character, Shiloh, only truly realizes what she feels for her companion, Alexi, toward the end. And seeing as how Alexi makes no attempt to hide either her sexuality or her attraction toward Shiloh, it wasn't like Shiloh could just say "Oh, by the way, it's all mutual now" or something equally ridiculous. I started really considering Shiloh's sexuality, and realized she had the same issue some of the people discussed on the TV Tropes page had:
Shiloh needed to come out to herself.
Where Shiloh grew up, there's an emphasis on getting married and having children, and people who don't have kids are seen as selfish. It takes meeting Alexi, who's from a much more open culture, to make Shiloh realize how restricted her home life was. It takes being around Alexi to make Shiloh realize she was never interested in the people her culture said she should be. And it takes their journey together to make Shiloh realize what she never felt for anyone else.
I've been writing these two in one form or another since 2002. In their stories, it's never a question of if they'll get together, only when. But Skyborne is the first of their stories I've truly tried to get published. So getting this right has become very, very important to me, and in the edit/polish I'm doing now, I think I've finally figured it out.
Another reason why I'm doing this entry now: another author with LGBT main characters, Adrien-Luc Sanders, is doing a promotion for his book, From the Ashes. He's trying to get it into Amazon's top 100, a worthy goal for any author. Drop by and take a look, won't you?
Win $500 or $250 Visa Gift Cards or a manuscript crit if From the Ashes reaches the Amazon top 100!
Contest Rules / Entry Page | Buy on Amazon | Add to GoodReads
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