Let's Do This: Political Censorship | Episode 34

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Censorship in Fictions | Episode 33

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Let’s Do This: Political Censorship in Fiction

1. Are there certain ideas in your fiction that a government might want to suppress or has historically suppressed? Even if your setting is different, might this suppression enter as a kind of tension or comment by a character?

2. What is the state of journalism in your setting (real or imagined)? What are the laws about media and free speech? To what extent are journalists punished (by the state or by citizens) for what they have to say?

3. How can censoring characters sometimes say more? Can you create moments of dramatic irony in your text where the unsaid is said to the reader in narration?

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