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To: Alia
"Ask yourself: Would I write books containing incestuous pedophilia in my free time?"

I might if I were trying to paint a character as a disgusting, contemptuous POS. I'm sure Tom Clancy would never bomb the Super Bowl, but he wrote about characters that would. Its called F-I-C-T-I-O-N.

152 posted on 10/27/2006 7:34:26 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
I might if I were trying to paint a character as a disgusting, contemptuous POS

A writer with virtuous goals can portray evil for what it is without gratuitous pornography.

154 posted on 10/27/2006 7:38:08 AM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Natural Law
Um actually, "non" on the Fiction part.

Happening live, right now, Webb is being interviewed

"Second caller asks why Webb had to include sexual content in his book. Webb says I saw it, it happened, author has a duty to write about it, there was nothing sexual about it. "

155 posted on 10/27/2006 7:46:11 AM PDT by Alia
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