Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Was It Something I Said?
How does a writer deal with political correctness and peer-pressured censorship? I want to be able to speak my mind, yet I don't want to listen to other people's hate speech. What is the line? The first amendment protects my right to free speech, but it doesn't clear me of consequences of said speech. How much of your writing is effected by your readers response? And, do you curtail a character to those expectation?
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I know that a writer might feel a need to write what people want to read, but a writer shouldn't censor themselves.
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The line I do draw is anything that is animal cruelty, child porn, child abuse.
There are books I don't want to read because the subject doesn't interest me.
That's just me, though. My motto is life is too short to read bad books.
Don't self-censor. The reader can put the book down or in the trash if it doesn't appeal to them. The vocal mob will make themselves heard, but you don't have to cowtow to them.
All of this babbling is a byproduct of too much caffeine on a liquid only diet today, my apologies.....
Very helpful, and makes me want Starbucks! I agree that we shouldn't self-censor, but what about that recent amazon debacle with the pedophile from CO? Should he be censored at an amazon level? Or what about when an editor changes a characters name to...suit?
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