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> “You have to write as though your parents are dead.” The "dance like no one is watching" for writers. Young novelists have, in the back of their mind, what
by tlb 6y ago
> “You have to write as though your parents are dead.”
The "dance like no one is watching" for writers.
Young novelists have, in the back of their mind, what their parents will think reading their book. By contrast, hackers of my generation mostly didn't have to worry about our parents judging our work. I wonder how much of a damper on creativity it will create for my kids (now in college studying CS) that I am reasonably able to criticize theirs.
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- m463 6y agoI wonder if the creative window is between moving away from the parents and setting an example for kids ... or if it's later in life after the parents are gone and the kinds are grown.
- cafard 6y agoIn Roth's novellas Zuckerman Unbound and The Ghost Writer, there are outspokenly offended parents and I suppose uncles and aunts. Some years after those were published, I read a piece by Roth saying that his father had never complained about his fiction, had in fact always supported him.