@chaosprime SRSLY? Maybe because if a character is unlikeable, we don't feel like spending a book hanging around with him.
@StevenBrust …now they're in the "unlikeable" bucket and no one wants your mss. Which kinda seems like the real problem to me.
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@chaosprime Agreed. Different problem if it is editor or public taste, but sure. But I wish people were more aware of when they're jargoning -
@StevenBrust Yeah. I'd like to know if we're talking about likeable-the-actual-thing or likeable-the-acquiring-editor-screening-criterion.
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@StevenBrust Prolly not strictly YA, like I really doubt@veschwab could have sold Vicious with a Victoria Vale lead, but it seems to be… -
@StevenBrust …this huge thing in YA, that any female protag has to fail to conform in *just* the right ways and not any unapproved ones.
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