Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:58:07 GMT
Anyone who writes stories cannot have inhibitions . A writer is a creative person, and creativity does not work with brakes, with vetoes, it does not like prohibition. All this kills the writer's creativity, all this harms the stories he writes. Inhibition is unconscious, therefore it does not exist. It exists because we are the ones who give it shape, who justify its presence. Indeed, we created our inhibitions, placing obstacles and impediments to our creativity. When I read Lansdale 's Drive-in trilogy , I saw the author's creativity in full force. Those stories are a clear example of how a writer has trampled on his inhibitions, has eliminated every mental block from the writing – if Lansdale ever had inhibitions and mental blocks, but I suspect not. Some of the following inhibitions have surfaced in my writing, but over time they have diminished until they disappear completely. What I often say is that an author, if he wants to improve, must aim for a healthy indifference.
When he writes, at least. The shyness of the novice writer Many readers have written to me privately explaining this problem, which was also mine and maybe it was yours too. The shame of having one's writings , one's stories read. It's natural that there is this shyness at the beginning, perhaps because we see the writer as someone so different from the Special Data others - and perhaps he really is, after all we are inventing stories, and when you think about it this is really strange. Being shy, however, leads us to give up our dream of becoming writers , of publishing our stories and novels. Of course, one solution could be to use a stage name , but does it really have to come to this? I don't know how this shyness can be overcome. This is how I won: by publishing my stories in a forum, no one was looking at me at the time. So what did I have to be ashamed of? The specter of "political correctness" Take away cigarettes from Tex Willer, because smoking is not educational.
I had heard something about it many years ago. We agree that smoking is not educational, but «Tex» is a historical comic and in the Far West people smoked a lot. If we have to take away Tex's cigarettes, then let's take away his guns too: killing people isn't educational either. What comic would "Tex" become without smoke and guns? Being politically correct limits any creativity in every art form, therefore also in writing. In fiction. Remember the publishing house that wanted to purge Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ? Censor those novels because they contain the offensive term "nigger", not caring about the historical context in which the events take place and the historical period in which those novels were written. Offensive terms, of any kind, exist, so they must be used. This doesn't mean deliberately offending someone or some category, but making the writing and story realistic .
When he writes, at least. The shyness of the novice writer Many readers have written to me privately explaining this problem, which was also mine and maybe it was yours too. The shame of having one's writings , one's stories read. It's natural that there is this shyness at the beginning, perhaps because we see the writer as someone so different from the Special Data others - and perhaps he really is, after all we are inventing stories, and when you think about it this is really strange. Being shy, however, leads us to give up our dream of becoming writers , of publishing our stories and novels. Of course, one solution could be to use a stage name , but does it really have to come to this? I don't know how this shyness can be overcome. This is how I won: by publishing my stories in a forum, no one was looking at me at the time. So what did I have to be ashamed of? The specter of "political correctness" Take away cigarettes from Tex Willer, because smoking is not educational.
I had heard something about it many years ago. We agree that smoking is not educational, but «Tex» is a historical comic and in the Far West people smoked a lot. If we have to take away Tex's cigarettes, then let's take away his guns too: killing people isn't educational either. What comic would "Tex" become without smoke and guns? Being politically correct limits any creativity in every art form, therefore also in writing. In fiction. Remember the publishing house that wanted to purge Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ? Censor those novels because they contain the offensive term "nigger", not caring about the historical context in which the events take place and the historical period in which those novels were written. Offensive terms, of any kind, exist, so they must be used. This doesn't mean deliberately offending someone or some category, but making the writing and story realistic .