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What Should A Writer Write? What Should A Reader Read?
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Apr 02, 2008 04:14AM
Naidia, this teacher you might no
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a kid said he had nightmares about her after school(this was the same kid in Ms novac)
Because of several attacks and threats to writers, one would like to know the answers to the above questions. Just to take two examples—male and female.
Salman Rushdie got the fatwa for his “sins” in writing Satanic Verses, what Muslims considered as insult to their prophet and religion.
In the same way, the Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasreem, went into hiding in India when Muslims started hunting for her on account of her defaming writings.
Questions: What is freedom of expression? How far should it go?
I think the best a reader will do is to send a riposte to any deemed offensive writing. Or not to read t all.
In the context of the above, Jews and blacks might even ask for the author of Queen Esther to be hanged. Because in the book, Esther was black, not Jewish; and it was the Jews that were decreed to die in Persia, not blacks.
But does it matter? Which is more important: the message or the method of conveyance?
Arthur Zulu is the author of HOW TO WRITE A BEST-SELLER and QUEEN ESTHER.
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ms. foot!!!! she needs to go on maternaty leave NOW!!!! she is getting so anoying!!!!!!!
I despise her. She was absoulutely mean to everybody in cluster 4 at least.
at lunch every day she says "i have those home room seat signs sitting in my office, and i can bring them down here very easily" it's so anoying!!!
she's the pregnant 6th grade administrator w/ a lousy atitude and brown triangle shaped hair
This is true and how to handle its situation is well said before me. It’s idiotic to think anyone who can read, will resort to the things we claim to suffer. It’s dumb. And the problems just don’t seem to have the rights to just to just crop up like it does. Isn’t it misunderstood and unreal? Who’s to blame when and why, where we are to be kept ignorant even still after so much effort has us assuming all these things.A non fiction writer is obvious, and is forced to express idle esteem. What more can anyone expect. Is it not granted it is difficult to follow a train of thought? As a reader who’s at all lucky, narratives are a simple choice. A true story will come to its end. But we seek the weakest end results. To glamour our own egos, to protect our own names we can look into non fiction and true stories but only because we are seeking out a truth.
She got pregnant? She never did last year. And yeah, she is wicked annoying.
she's so crabby and anoying. she's going on maternity leave this week!!!!! so now we have some teacher who's shorter than me and is really anoying too, but i can't remember her name.
A writer's only obligation is to tell the truth to the best of their ability. All the backlash, all the political incorrect rehtoric and all the verbal assaults cannot/should not stop the writer from their commitment. This goes for everyone; from "The Turner Diaries" by William Luther Pierce to Ann Coulter's ridiculous comparison of Barak Obama's "Dreams From my Father" to Hitler's "Mein Kempf" (see the article here: http://www.anncoulter.com/), the job of the author is to find the truth that resonates to their chosen purpose.
Do I agree with "The Turner Diaries" or ANYTHING Ann Coulter says? NO!! But I am a writer who believes that to write a sense of truth (as it pertains to the perception of the writer) is a sure fire way to find someone in the world who will oppose you. Not every one's going to like you; and in the end, that's ok, as long as the writer has commited themselves to their responsibility.
I agree with you completely. When a writer is writing realistic fiction, especially, Truth is a contract between the writer and the reader. Beth Fehlbaum, author
Courage in Patience, a story of hope for those who have endured abuse
http://courageinpatience.blogspot.com
Chapter One is now online!
"A word after a word after a word is power."- Margaret Atwood
As a novelist, my duty is to entertain the reader with a powerful plot, colorful characters, and a sense of time and place.
As a reader, I also do some editing for a couple of publishers, and I am astounded by the number of manuscripts which lead nowhere. Cute, folksy dialogue, flickers of life in rural America, etc. do not constitute a good read. I keep looking for the conflict, and if not a happy ending, then a satisfying one.
Marilyn Morris
As a reader, I also do some editing for a couple of publishers, and I am astounded by the number of manuscripts which lead nowhere. Cute, folksy dialogue, flickers of life in rural America, etc. do not constitute a good read. I keep looking for the conflict, and if not a happy ending, then a satisfying one.
Marilyn Morris
i change my mind, ms foot is SUPER nice and understanding and actually respects us more than most teachers.
ARE YOU SERIOUS??? YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!!!
no i'm not......she has been the nicest teacher!!!!!!!!! she is actually somewhat kind and nice about the whole situation w/ ms radley...she actually listened to our opinions!!!
Wow.....................................................................
she's super nice if you talk to her face to face and have an actual conversation...
You could say that again...NOTE: Used to, not anymore
SHE HAD HER BABY LAST NIGHT......and named him......OWEN....
I'm just reading "The Four Agreements" and one is about possessing the integrity to speak the truth, in that our word is essentially all we have. As a writer, I know I have to follow what is true for me or the words will die on the page. I say 'what is true for me' because I'm thinking of the book "The Liars Club." A lie (the truth colored by imagination and necessity) still expresses truth in story telling. The dressing up doesn't change the heart of it.Kathy-Diane Leveille
http://kathy-dianeleveille.com
Author of Roads Unravelling and Let the Shadows Fall Behind You
