[TML] Smart Vilani dogs?

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 28 Feb 2008 at 6:43, Garry Ward wrote:

> >>  An author writes what makes an interesting book, or what he wants to 
> >> provoke
> >>  thought about, etc.  Doesn't have to *hold* those views.
> >
> > I am not a pro author but I have written a few short stories. You
> > would not believe how many times people have said to me, "WOW, I did
> > not know you thought that!" In reference to something some character
> > did or said. Of course I didn't think that way at all, often it was
> > the opposite of what I thought. It seems though that most people
> > believe that authors write characters that are nothing but shadows of
> > themselves.
> 
> Yeah; you should see the looks I got when, for the last NANOWRIMO, I said 
> that I planned to get in touch with my inner serial killer....

Yeah, and then there were the folks who wanted to lynch me as some 
sort of pedophile because I wrote some sttories with teens having 
sex. Never mind that they were having it with each other or that I'm 
far from the only person how had fantasies of having sex when I was 
that age. I *had* to be "projecting" and wanting to have sex with 
kids.

I wonder what the folks giving you the looks and the ones giving me 
grief think about Steven King? Or the guy who wrote Silence of the 
Lambs?

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com