Here's My Red Flag

Today I was reading Laurell K. Hamilton’s blog and happened to be browsing the back entries when I came across the one dated 7/6/06. It was titled Authors and the Trolls. And as I was reading it, I became a little nervous—worried.

First, let me summarize what the blog was about.

So often times there are things written that not everyone agrees with and because of that it flares controversy and disdain. For instance, in Laurell’s blog she was discussing an incident that happened on a blog site to MaryJanice Davidson, a friend of hers and a very good writer. Apparently, they really dug into her and were just plain nasty. They didn’t like her books. So, in an attempt to make her friend feel better, she wrote her a very encouraging letter, stating that she too had been lambasted more then once or twice on the public domain of the internet.

This got me to shuddering.

I myself have decided to write in a similar genre of the two authors and the thought of being hauled out publicly and paraded around on a proverbial, internet cross really got me going. I truly do not think I could handle being called names. I might hurt someone.

I agree with Laurell. If you don’t like what someone is writing, then by God…DON’T READ IT YOU MORON! Eww. I am not tolerant of stupid people and bigots just plain piss me off. About the time someone started crap with me on the net they would be in boatload of shit. There is this thing called slander and it doesn’t just apply to the spoken word. I would be on them like white on rice. They would have lawyers crawling up their little posteriors so fast they wouldn’t be able to sit right for months.

God bless you MaryJanice. You keep writing and keep doing what you’re doing because some people just need to get a life and stop worrying ‘bout someone else’s backyard. And you know, most people who find offense at certain things, they themselves are fighting an inner demon along the same lines of the subject matter they are hootin’ and hollerin’ about. It makes them a very sad, pathetic, and miserable person, and not just to other’s around them. They usually can’t stand to be in their own skins.

Nope. I don’t plan to change my writing style one bit. I hope I get published so I can wave the red flag in front of the bull too.

Here is Laurell's blog:

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/07/authors-and-trolls.html