{"id":890,"date":"2012-11-03T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:36:23","slug":"go-read-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Go. Read. Think."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard authors say, \u201cWell, we can\u2019t take responsibility for what a reader will take from a book. It could be anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris could have been reading Judy Moody just as easily as The Catcher in the Rye.<\/p>\n

It’s a tempting idea for anyone who has ever written anything. You write what you write. Readers take whatever they want from it. May the reader beware.<\/p>\n

No one blame Author X if kids start filleting one another in the woods (or Author Y if they start fellating).<\/p>\n

That is absolutely fair. But as any workshop or football coach will tell you, don’t accept the compliments if you won’t believe the criticism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Probably one of the more interesting discussions you’ll have with yourself today: are YA novels getting edgier? And, if teens are responding with increasingly edgy behavior, is it the fault of the authors? Do we hold books responsible? Do books have a power for evil? Because, surely we all agree that books have the power for good… don’t we???? Caveat lector<\/a> at CBC Diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard authors say, \u201cWell, we can\u2019t take responsibility for what a reader will take from a book. It could be anything.\u201d Dylan Klebold…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7317,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}