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    Writing a homosexual character?

    My character is an artist in Nazi Germany. He closets himself and no one suspects a thing because outwardly he's the perfect portrait of an Aryan citizen. He's kindly but sort of apathetic, more inclined to worry about his own little section of the world than about people he knows are suffering...
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    Anyone read this book?

    Has anyone read Hitler's List: An Illustrated Guide to Degenerates: Jews, Bolshevists, and Other Undesirable Geniuses? It's by John Minion. If so, do you recommend it? Is it informative? I ask because I'm writing a novel about an artist who is blacklisted by the Third Reich and I'm looking for...
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    Writing a novel in a diary format?

    Do you put dialog in a diary entry, or do you kind of just paraphrase what the characters say? Of these two examples, should I do this: "I asked her, 'what do you think?' 'Nothing.' 'Nothing at all?' 'No, nothing.' She seemed annoyed." Or this: "I asked her her opinion, but she said she...
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    How would you have become a college professor in the 1960s?

    Is the process the same as it would be today, or has it changed? I'm writing a book, and one of the guys wants to become a professor in this time period.
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    Opinion on a frame story? Plus character names?

    Good evening, all: I'm working on a story that takes place in WWII Germany. The thing is, I'm uncertain where to start. I was thinking of beginning in modern times, with the main character in America with his daughter. Then I was thinking of two possible ways to flash back: 1) the main...
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