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part 3 of putting together a collection of paintings for my upcoming art exhibition

'love, death & all her friends' sep 19 - oct 24 at corey helford gallery, LA

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Propagande Haddock :

Le gars, un minet journaliste avec son chien surdoué lui est tombé dessus, il a dit "Personne n'en veut ?" tout en ayant déjà rempli les papiers pour les garder, et a accepté oklm le professeur perché qui allait avec, déjà karma fois huit mille. Ne recule devant pas grand chose et surtout pas faire une confiance aveugle à son ami même quand celui-ci se met à parler au soleil.

Argument qui suffirait à lui tout seul : le bougre a une page wikipédia dédiée à son vocabulaire tant celui-ci est d'une richesse incommensurable en terme d'insulte, vraiment, un fleuron du sel et de la verve francophone.

Also : Bachi-bouzouk de tonnerre de Brest.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.