Comments on: You Are What You Write (Or Not) https://booksquare.com/you-are-what-you-write-or-not/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=you-are-what-you-write-or-not Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/you-are-what-you-write-or-not/#comment-40168 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:11 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/14/1087/#comment-40168 For me, I prefer a certain sense of mystery (I am reminded that I do not like to meet actors or, especially, lead singers of rock bands [drummers are fine — rarely a surprise there] because I am left wanting and that something special is lost). That being said, the beauty of writing is that there is something to appeal across the spectrum. Some people like the authors who open veins and share. Some people like a little less reality.

If it’s just one person involved, the vein approach is fine. When others are affected, then the ethics question arises. I don’t mention the husband by name here — and while I talk about him, it isn’t on a personal level and I (might) blur the facts to protect the innocent. He has become a character here like all the others.

I’m hoping others have thoughts or ideas on this. It feels like we’re bumping up against a boundary.

]]> By: Sandy L https://booksquare.com/you-are-what-you-write-or-not/#comment-40160 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:40:20 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/14/1087/#comment-40160 I had read an earlier Salon column by Ayelet Waldman where she confessed to something that I really wished she hadn’t told me. There are some things about authors that I really don’t need to know. And I am not convinced that author’s need to tell us everything.

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