Talking with other writers

By Delise · Nov 26, 2013 · ·
  1. I almost let my passion get sucked out of me.
    I never really shared my writings with other writers before.
    I took a writing course in my university and thought that it would be exciting to meet fellow young writers.
    In fact it was exteremely exciting that is until the critiques started.
    It went from being very constructive to just down right shitting on each other.

    I suppose though that my writings weren't accepted with the majority because of the nature of the content.
    Pedophilia
    Necrophilia
    Incest
    Cannibalism
    and add a touch of romanticism and you've got a story that no typically raised American would ever want to read.
    Especially if it's a story with incest or pedophilia in a romantic twist.
    The thing about it though,
    The thing is, it wasn't rape.

    That's what people get all huffy and puffy about. I don't like rape. I don't think anyone does but the fucking rapist. But for some reason people think pedophilia or incest and rape are one thing.

    As long as the people involved are coherent and want that other person and agree to the sexual act, then who gives a shit really if it's your brother, your sister, your daughter or your mother.

    Well the parent thing scares me ( my own mother gives me nightmares) but still if that's what they want to do....party on.

    Yet, because of the intense backlash, I've kept my writings to myself.
    However I realized after a year of not writing, that my soul was starting to rot.

    I also was too afraid of ever calling myself a writer because of my shitty grammar.
    My grammar is terrible.
    I'm glad I joined this forum.
    I don't feel like I'm wasting away anymore.

Comments

  1. Laze
    wat? :c

    Are you endorsing incest as long as the two or more people involved agree to it?
  2. Wreybies
    When you choose to tackle any construct that presents as a taboo in the context of its culture, there will be flagrant and dramatic clutching of pearls... in public. Even a prestigious name and place amongst published authors is no guaranty that the public will accept or consider such work. Samuel R. Delany, a giant within the world of Science Fiction and a favorite of mine, has a couple of titles that couldn't get published for decades after having been written (Hogg, Equinox) and even then, one caused police action to ensue upon release. His titles Dhalgren (1975) and Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984) explored very frank themes of homosexuality and even inter-species sexuality, and these weren't passable Star Trek aliens who look just like humans.

    Sometimes the construct of who we wish to be perceived as - which is especially strong when people are young - makes it impossible for others to consider such work in a public manner.
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  3. Delise
    If my daddy was Johnny Depp...

    If people are in love and care about each other however they choose to express that is theirs. Even if they happen to be related.
  4. Wreybies
    Go to yahoo.com (don't bother with google, it's a prude), turn the content filter off and search images of twincest. Brace yourself. Bam! There's plenty of other sibling porn in play across the digital pornway, but the choice of choices is twincest because only with identical twins can the viewer be guaranteed 100% that those two there on the screen having at each other are in fact siblings, not just make believe. Society and culture is glued together and fashioned from different types and consistencies of lies. The internet calls us out on a constant basis for the liars we are. There's what we say in polite company, and there's what we do in the privacy of bedrooms behind closed doors. We lie to each other, but most often and most convincingly, we lie to ourselves.
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  5. KaTrian
    I'm glad you feel like you're not wasting away anymore :) Just write out your soul.

    It's only when you think about appealing to a wider audience that some restrictions come to play. Sometimes you have to dress your story in appealing clothing. But when you look at the bare bones of it, Twilight alone is full of necrophilia and beastiality :p
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