I've had a lot of trouble since I got kicked out of a public forum for posting a story that dealt with homosexuality. Two friends who happened to be gay faced family for a holiday, and it was really pretty bland and boring (rated B for Bad :) ). No sex in the story. But they were homosexual, and homosexuality is verboten in a lot of places.
The whole thing came as a big shock because on the whole I'm a pretty mild-mannered person and my characters are not rude boys. Working class and middle class, mostly. Those just aren't the kinds of stories I tell. I hope they're intense and mean something, and I certainly won't back off whatever language is necessary if that's what the character uses. But it's really got very little bearing on whether the story is any good.
And it's all the author's choice. If a reader doesn't like it, they can read a different book.
Let's have a big round of applause
Date: 18 Mar 2005 01:04 am (UTC)The whole thing came as a big shock because on the whole I'm a pretty mild-mannered person and my characters are not rude boys. Working class and middle class, mostly. Those just aren't the kinds of stories I tell. I hope they're intense and mean something, and I certainly won't back off whatever language is necessary if that's what the character uses. But it's really got very little bearing on whether the story is any good.
And it's all the author's choice. If a reader doesn't like it, they can read a different book.
--bonnie