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>Main Character of the novel is an unrepentant and unsympathetic asshole.
A part of me wants to continue writing, another part of me wants to change the Main character because it would put potential readers off.

Is there anything controversial in your novel that makes you feel and think the same?

>> No.12538996

>>12538963
I guess if you add a character with opposite characteristics you may add balance to the story

>> No.12539005

>>12538996
I am, but the problem is that the novel is first person.

>> No.12539008

>>12538996
>Is there anything controversial in your novel that makes you feel and think the same?
race change in a sci fi existential realism novel in a parallel universe where ww1 never happened and Adolf Hitler became a painter philosopher and author
Till me about controversy

>> No.12539011

>>12539005
That would be even cooler

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12539195

>>12538963
Being an asshole is outplayed

>> No.12539222

>>12538963
>>12539005
you can still make characters like that interesting even if they're 'unlikable', so long as they're likable in other respects, like intelligence and/or productivity. In fact making it first person is probably the only way you can make them sympathetic, by having them manipulate the reader.

like HH in Lolita, or Francis Urquhart in the original House of Cards tv show