Seeing this one a lot. Fuck this. Writing has always been political for me. I write horror and crime, but I write about otherness, racism, homophobia, injustice, etc. My fiction is shaped by my politics. Been getting hate mail and threats for a decade. Not stopping any time soon.
Russian troll farms are working overtime.
Sit down and shut up never really worked with me.
If only that poster could have discouraged writing about controversies in time to save Dickens' career. Or Twain's. Or Harriet Beecher Stowe's Or... (Jesus god what a literary decerebrate)
I aim to alienate and draw the right people in equal measure with every post.
“Don’t pour yourself into your art” Fuckin dipshits
Someone who votes Republican isn't going to like my work for about seventeen different reasons, and frankly I'd feel bad if they did.
Sure, think of all those trump supporting readers. You could potentially lose tens of book sales.
Good art is political. Storytelling is political. Creators who don't stand for something create stuff that's almost never worth consuming.
If I lose friends or followers because I dare have an opinion about you know, my life, then they really aren't my friends and they can feck the right off. With these people it's ALWAYS style over substance. nonsense.