What is an author allowed to do?
Hey guys, I'm an "author" at crowdbook. I'd like to hear your opinion on what an author is allowed to do and what not. I'm currently writing two stories, one about a seriously disturbed stepfather and his stepdaughter who accuses him of murdering her mother, and the other is about a student who went on a rampage at her junior high school. So I wanted to ask if authors are allowed to write stories about all kinds of violence and tragedy, or are there limits. My name on the app is Victoria von Milke, if you want to take a look at what I've written.
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You can write what you want. But you want to write everything?
Own rules could be good. For example, I do not want to spread ignorance. Readers should be able to google something (if it happens) and find the same/similar explanation in my book. That’s important to me.
I don’t want glorification either. Any violence or abuse is cruel. If the antigonist finds it great, okay. But the others and society shouldn’t find that good. And this point also supports platforms like CrowdBook and Storyban. They reject texts with violence.
I hope you have a better spelling in your stories? Have fun.
In the end, it is at the discretion of the author, which topics he wants to address in his stories. Art makes it possible to explore the human experience from different angles and to raise difficult questions. But this freedom should always be exercised with care and empathy for the readers. I want to say that you have a lot of power and great power should always be used responsibly.
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After Goethe had written the sufferings of the young valiant, he released a wave of suicide among German youths – you can write everything that people make of it, stay left to them / if you first consider what you can and what not, nothing more useful comes out.
And you’ll find a suicide wave like that?
Of course you can’t foresee everything, but you don’t have to write a guide or call for violence.
Nowadays, ‘the suffering of the young valuer’ is quite harmless to read 🤷 ♂️ or?
The author is allowed to write everything whether it comes to social acceptance is another chapter.
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But it was less about acceptance, rather that one should not glorify violence and that something should not be brought into the role of intention or indifferent.
But of course you cannot forbid or prevent this
You can write everything. Of course, such violence, the bookshelves are full of it.
I would not recommend to write violence
Not exactly a guide to crimes
🙀 then you should definitely not read Sebastian Fitzek!
You don’t have to
Violence should never be supported
There’s always madness to heat up that kind of thing.
AvD, Navi, … are the best examples of how such glorification drives its flowers
This is not at all, there are books that were formerly societal and are today world literature, such as ‘the sufferings of the young Werther’ or ‘Lolita’.
What you don’t feel because you’re too sensitive to this literature is absolutely no matter 🤷
But I’m staying
I would not recommend
I don’t know what your problem is.
If you need such books – there is a cure
Well – artistic freedom 😬🤷 ♂️