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Topic : Re: How does one write a character smarter than oneself? How does one write a "genius" character? I don't mean a scientific genius, or someone who is a prodigious talent in math or chess or something - selfpublishingguru.com

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As an example, Susan Elia MacNeal, the author of the Maggie Hope mysteries, didn't know anything about code-breaking when she started writing books about an American mathematician who ends up in WWII London and becomes a British spy. But she did have lots of friends at MIT, so she started asking them about cryptography. She used their help to make Maggie brilliant at seeing and cracking codes.


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