Don Winslow: The Complicated Ethics of Writing Violence in Fiction

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Bestselling novelist Don Winslow explores the tricky ethics around depicting violence in fiction

There are some hard ethical questions in the writing of crime fiction.And if so, how do you do it with some sense of morality?

And maybe I’m wrong about not sanitizing the violence. There is, after all, a place for the cleverly plotted, suspenseful whodunit with its witty dialogue, exotic locales, and intriguing characters. It’s fine, as long as we know it’s a game and we play by its rules and know its conventions. So if Colonel Someone kills Lord Someone Else in the study with a monkey wrench, we don’t expect to see the blood and brains and we don’t feel much from the grieving family except anticipation of the will.

Not necessarily. Many readers of crime fiction go to books for an escape from reality, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a legitimate choice on both the writers and reader’s part. I’ve made that choice myself, in pieces that were never meant to depict real events. that were so horrific as to be surreal. I didn’t think the reader would even believe them. But, in all candor, the larger reason I didn’t was that just couldn’t bring myself to write them. I just couldn’t do it to the reader—or to myself.

There were still times when the story required that I write the actual violence, but I started more to write the funeral, the wake, the feelings of the survivors., the effects over the course of years. Maybe I’ve just softened over time myself, I don’t know.

 

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donwinslow Screenwriting + Writers + Poetry Don't you dare call us serial killers (Winslow), we just interview or imagine death row prisoners (etc) trying to imitate Jodie Foster in the Silence of our Thoughts, hourly for most.

donwinslow What about the ethics of writing racism into every tv show or movie ? Young black boys growing up watching shows that show them being racially abused & battered every week from imaginary white policemen 🤷‍♂️ Sowing the seeds of hate

donwinslow There are some excellent points raised by this issue. As a writer, I have voluntarily jettisoned some plot twists that would have made a good storyline but might also have incited someone to “copycat”. Restraint isn’t necessarily a bad thing sometimes.🤷‍♀️

donwinslow apanya yang fiction.... sudah terbentuk belum....

donwinslow It is not complicated. It is fiction.

donwinslow Horses 'wink' with their vaginas when they are horny.

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