Happy holidays, everybody! For this end of the year Drollerie Blog Tour, while you’re all sipping your holiday nog and listening to seasonal music on your MP3 players, we’re hoping to shake things up a bit with a theme of dangerous writing. Enjoy!
- John Rosenman visits Sarah Avery’s place, and shares with us the tale of a book that cost him two jobs
- Elisa Diehl is hosting David Sklar, who writes of angering his college paper and the birthing of monsters
- Sarah Avery drops by Nora Fleischer’s journal to post about how her first foray into writing was dangerous–to herself
- At Imogen Howson‘s site, Nora Fleischer explains the danger for her of writing paranormal romance: telling others what her story is about
- I’ve got a post from Imogen Howson all about Hades and Persephone and the dangers of how to write for a YA audience
- Heather Ingemar visits John Rosenman with a post about how writing itself is inherently risky
- And lastly, David Sklar hosts me, with a bit about one of my short stories
As always, thank you all for coming by, and we hope you enjoy our posts! More to come in 2010 with the new year!
Wonderful posts all, and an interesting subject–dangerous writing.
I write mostly erotica, which doesn’t seem particularly risky these days. I appreciate David’s comments about exploring the fringe of erotic writing by dealing with nonconsensual sex. Real life and real sex deals with real conflict. How twisted that the nonconsensual act of being murdered is fine to write about in detail and from the murderer’s point of view even, but nonconsensual sex is not.
Still, I have the most respect for YA writers these days. Imogen’s post was well-stated. I wouldn’t even try it! I’ve made my own criticisms of YA stories with bad messages–like anything in the Twilight series–but literary criticism shouldn’t mean authors avoid writing what speaks to them.
As David intimates in his post, readers need to be critical thinkers (be aware, for example, of the “unreliable narrator”). As I told my nephews who loved the series, Twilight readers need to understand the world presented by the author is not Truth but her own idea of women’s power & role (which I hated), and readers are free to accept or reject that world-view.
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