Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!
Today’s topic is: Do you tackle current political turmoil in your stories or avoid it?
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The simple answer to this week’s topic is no, I don’t. I embrace various media – films, TV, books and video games. And I consume all of these as a means to escape events going on in the world around me. That doesn’t mean to say politics isn’t a feature in my work. At the end of the day, politics comprise a considerable component of believable world-building. But I don’t necessarily want to write about what has happened in current or recent politics. That doesn’t mean it won’t be subconsciously inspired by real events. There are political undertones in Chasing Shadows thanks to the High Commission, but it’s all a figment of my imagination, in no way inspired or influenced by any one event. I like my fiction to be an escape.
Steven Smith 
You have a similar viewpoint to myself – fiction should be a way of escaping reality for a short while.
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It’s sad, that so many of us feel like we have to escape the real world.
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Politics do give us some interesting to twist to our whimsy.
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Wouldn’t it be lovely if politicians didn’t have the power to destroy our lives so we didn’t need to be concerned with what they’re doing?
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Escape can also be good, and if you’re directly writing about current politics, you definitely time-stamp your work. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
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