Kendall20
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30/08/2007 | Those are people dumb and ill-informed. Don't listen to them! |
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easywriter58
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30/08/2007 | No way man! I am a woman and I write about rape from a man's point of view-guess I have a screw loose, hehe.
Write what you want and what comes from your mind and soul. Who cares what you do to make money?
I wouldn't put it pass a pimp to write about religious things or a priest to write about erotica.
Writing is stress relief for me. I can murder people I hate, have sex with movie stars and drown cats in a poem and get away with it.
Be free with your writing and don't worry what others think.
Of course, you may have to alter that last line if you want to be published. |
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Teri
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30/08/2007 | Haha. I got blasted not too long ago for writing a first person piece from the POV of a gay man. Write what you want, Dewi, and thumb your nose at those who don't understand or try to control you. If not, we're all going to be writing the same rigidly-worded schlock over and over ad nauseum.
*hug*
Teri xo
PS - It's great to see you back. You've been missed. |
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mindofryan
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30/08/2007 | *gasp* You would dare write about wizardry and not be a wizard yourself? Blasphemous, I now curse thee, be wizard!
There you go, now you can write about wizards and stuff... : ) |
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yican
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30/08/2007 | *hugs too*
Thanks Autie. I miss my friend in ER too.
Ha, it's good to know I'm not alone in this. I guess those kinds of comment are thrown by non-writers who haven't had the chance to experience the faboulus life of a writer. |
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Teri
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30/08/2007 | We're supposed to have fabulous lives? Okay, I missed that part of the lecture.
*looks under desk*
Where? I got a big ball of cat fur, two paperclips that keep stabbing my toes, my male cat got into the garbage and now has stinky gas and this maniac over here is smoking a really smelly cigar and playing this freaking HARP.
Fabulous? *cries*
Post edited on: 30/08/2007 08:03:00 PM |
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GLWard
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30/08/2007 | Whoever said that doesn't know the FIRT thing about being a writer. If we were stuck writing that way, I would give up. I hate retail. I could never write about it.
Do what Teri said. |
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mindofryan
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30/08/2007 | Smoking a cigar and playing a harp... sounds like a well versed man with taste, not a maniac. |
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Teri
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30/08/2007 | Of course he has taste. He's with me. *cough* |
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yican
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30/08/2007 | LOL @ Ryan. Now I'll use my magic to shut those people up. *uses magic!*
Of course it's a faboulus life, Auntie. You have a man who smokes cigar AND plays harp! Now that's what I call taste LOL
I agree with you Guin. I'd give up if I'm forced to write about aviation *shudders*
Ahh, it's good to be back in ER with you guys. |
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ThePenguin
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30/08/2007 | I use writing as a way to explore - ideas, emotions, whatever. If it means exploring wizardry, then great. If it measn exploring avionics, then great. There's no subject that is not available to a writer! Even the taboo ones...
They writers should write about wht they know, but really that saying should be writers must write about what they are learning! |
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yican
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31/08/2007 | Well said, Peter. Writing means researching. I wouldn't mind researching about things I normally avoid (such as politic, for example) if it's needed for my story.
For me, the saying should be writers must write about what they want, even the taboo ones. |
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31/08/2007 | JG Ballard used to read brochures for science parks, specs for buildings and technical journals in order to adapt their cold, mechanical blah into a 'sinister poetic'. I think it's great when authors recycle language from different fields. "Suture" is probably my favourite technical borrowing at the moment, |
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gmarco
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31/08/2007 | Suture is a fantastic word.
Also, I'm allowed to write fantasy because I'm a mathamagician, Horror because I'm afraid of spiders, and Science Fiction because I from yesterday's future.
I am barely know myself; how am I supposed to write only things I am if I don't know what they are?
Answer, as it always is; Magic.
-Garrett |
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alien
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31/08/2007 | They say write about what you know - I mean, what you know (jobwise) might come in useful in some of your faery/wizard/elf/orc/troll/pixie tales. If it does, bonus! If it does not, so what?
I love faeries and elves.
You write what you like, kiddo, and have fun while you're at it :D |
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Kerosene
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31/08/2007 | I write from the POV of a stapler and rocks....just goes to show how much is going on upstairs for me...
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