April 22, 2003
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i’ve had a story kicking around in my head the last few days. it’s a fiction piece, but mostly falls into the genre of “just really fucked up“. i’m at ends with myself whether or not to post it here or to seek publishing/posting elsewhere.
why?
mostly because of its adult nature and at times, graphic nature.
sure, i could say “well, this is my weblog. i’ll post what i please, when i please and screw you if you don’t like it. first amendment!”
but freedom of speech is not license of speech. with personal freedoms come personal responsibilities and knowing that i have quite a few younger readers….that just makes me wary of posting it here. maybe i’m overly concerned. maybe i’m not.
advice and input would be appreciated. after all, you’re the readers.
Comments (28)
i have this really cool story but im not going to tell you…
very cool layout! and i’m not just saying that because i’m a clueless bystander to those artsy types….
Make them promise to have their parents read it with them.
Dude….now how easy was that? I can’t come up with all the good answers all the time, you know.
i’m pretty sure that if they wanted to see anything of graphic nature, they’re going to get their hands on it anyways. granted, you’re spoon feeding it to them, but come on, its a literary masterpiece, right?
put a disclaimer at the top, or format it like one of your clicky posts. say, you must be XX age to read this and by clicking here you are agreeing to that. okay, so that’s a corny idea. dammit, just do what you want.
you don’t know me but i say go for it man
That’s a toughy. Personally, my goal is to expose myself with as little censoring as possible in order to know myself better and be honest to my readers. If I’m going for popular fiction route, I’d rather write about someone else’s life.
maybe you should post under a different name and invite the people you do want to read it
well i know i’d like to read it
don’t let that fiction piece go, even if it means you gotta write it down here (i understand your discomfort you’ve got such a large audience) you just never know what it’ll amount to,
something bigger, and then you revise, and then you finish it, keep it from us so we won’t plagiarize, and then voila, maybe a novel maybe a collection maybe publish and money later, wee
Send it to me! Send it to me! I’ll read it via email, and I’m already fucked up so nothing you write will make it worse.
and my flesh begins to crawl with suspense.
I say post it so we can critique your skilllllz, but then I’m not one of your “younger” readers presumably, so I think that decision has to be yours.
put it on that other site you have
I say post it. If the younger readers read it and their parents would get angry look at it as they should’ve been monitering their kids computer use closer. That’s not your fault.
I don’t know exactly how young your readers are BUT this “young” reader has had her exposure to much talk, stories, movie etc… dealing with adult topics; so, i highly doubt anything you could write would be SO graphic that i’d be taken aback and say, “whoa buddy”
everytime i get an underage subscriber (and i have a few that are thirteen. thirteen.) my eyebrows go up a bit. where, exactly, are your parents, i ask. but that’s not really my problem, is it. if i only talked about stuff i thought was appropriate for thirteen-yr-olds, well… puppies and kittens are nice, but damn.
bring it on, baby. raising the world’s children ain’t your job.
You know you wanna do it. If worse comes to worse, you can always privatize it.
Heh….I said privatize.
Meh… if its a work of art its a work of art. Cannot argue with art O_o
I’m with rache… unsupervised children are not your responsibility– besides I’m sure they’ve read or seen worse. So post it already, willya?
Thanks man. You know how I get when there’s adult stuff hanging about.
Phew! Dodged the bullet there. Don’t have to read no fucked up story. Now I can get back to my life.
Wait, I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with any fucked up story??? Oh hell, I might as well read yours, as mine is just knocking the stuffing out of me.
POST IT! POST IT! POST IT!
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I agree with rache, its YOUR site. you should put something nasty and raunchy and sticky and… what were we talking about?
monkeys? mmmm monkeys.
I’d be more than interested in reading some decent short fiction via Xanga. The internet is such a free for all, I doubt anything in your story would rival the hot oil wrestling midget porn which is only a google away.
methinkith you should post it. ::grin::
hehe fuck those who think that you can’t post certain things. do it anyway.
Hehehehe……. do it. >:-}
i dig.
keep someone locked up in a while room, with no windows, no mental stimulation. keep them there. then, all of a sudden, kick them out into the world on 42nd street. lets see how traumatized we can make them. lets see how they adjust. “therapy anyone?” post it man, for the love of mankind, my god we are raising a society of little wussies.
*yes, I know, but better late than never.
I believe the younguns have operable eyelids.