[TML] Smart Vilani dogs?

[Knapp]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
>  --
>  Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
>  shadow at shadowgard dot com

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Douglas E Knapp
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