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Thanks, I think that might have given me some lost perspective and belief back
 
You beat me to this. I highly recommend everything the Tale Foundry puts out and a binge of their back catalog is well worth your time.
 
I watched the world-building one too which can be described as tips for giving necessary exposition without info-dumping. Also excellent. Thanks for the link :)

(The last bit, in the world-building one) about them including in the story how a man made a character an AI when all the story needed to know was that she was an AI chimes with me. I think I've done that, but, at the moment, I'm too close to the story to undo it. Must lay it aside and return to it.)
 
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