This post is part of the monthly blog hop/therapy session known as the Insecure Writers Support Groupfounded by the one and only, Alex J. Cavanaugh. If you're a writer, insecure, or just supportive of writers—insecure or not—please join us. It happens the first Wednesday of each month. It would be sweet of you to visit at least a dozen or so new blogs and leave a comment. Your words will be appreciated. Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.
Thanks to our awesome co-hosts for the April 7 posting of the IWSG! PK Hrezo, Pat Garcia, SE White, Lisa Buie Collard,
and Diane Burton!
April 7th's question, if you'd like to answer it, is: Are you a risk-taker when writing? Do you try something radically different in style/POV/etc. or add controversial topics to your work?
Hmm?
Let’s see...
Do I take risks when writing?
Try something radically different?
Use controversial topics?
Yes...
Uh huh...
&
Yup.
I’ve blogged before how stories just come to me...
And sure enough, about a year ago...
Disjointed notions came to me fast and furious...
And I wrote them down...
Not caring about punctuation or spelling.
At first they were quotes...
One-liners...
Two-liners...
Then a paragraph, or a poem...
Even some flash fiction.
A while went by...
And I went back and read what I had written...
Many were humorous, some poignant, some thought provoking...
While others were…well… adult...
That smacked my reality in your face...
And I thought—what has gotten into me?
So, I researched and found this:
Dirty realism is a term coined in 1983 by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a new voice in a North American literary movement. Writers of this sub-category of realism use an economy of unadorned language with a disturbing detachment at times verging on comedy, irony, and can often be savage. Dirty Realism is considered a variety of Literary minimalism.
Charles Bukowski was a master of this
I love writing this kind of stuff...
Especially my quotes...
But I got to tell ya...
It ain’t easy taking the criticism...
When I read my stuff...
And people are expecting something pretty...
And all I give them is dirty...
Realism, that is.
Here are two my softer ones:
Sadness’ of the past resurrect
into physical pains dressed up in
emotional costumes - Leigh Caron
What does it mean when the only time he tells you he loves you is when he’s drunk?
I don’t know either
But I sure as hell am going to give him lots of drinks.
Often - Leigh Caron
So?
Have you ever taken any risks with your writing?
Do tell.
Always,
Em-Musing
