tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post6241569365924118751..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Right to Write Anne CassidyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-36367964228319658162009-04-01T07:34:00.000+01:002009-04-01T07:34:00.000+01:00First of all I thank you very much for following m...First of all I thank you very much for following my blog. I am of the opinion that a writer should have full freedom to share their views through their writing. It is so painful to hear that yongsters are falling prey to drugs. Lack of emotional attachment among parents are children may be one of the reasons for this drug abuse. Hope you agree with me.Geetha Gopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05308342698964286883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-58942847122702263042009-03-31T15:54:00.000+01:002009-03-31T15:54:00.000+01:00Hi all. My feeling on this Julie Myerson is entitl...Hi all. My feeling on this Julie Myerson is entitled to write about whatever she wants to write about, but that she shouldn't complain if people voice & write their own opinions back! Personally, with books having so short a shelf life - ie nothing being thought of as an immortal volume any more - I don't think I'd risk my relationship with my children for the sake of a book. Though, I suppose, if you start by writing autobiographical columns as a young single woman, highlighting amusing tales of your love-life and career problems and so on, it must be difficult to change just because you become a parent with little children, and then you suddenly find that you are writing about children/teenagers old enough to have their own opinions back.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-20785826942198839962009-03-31T13:15:00.000+01:002009-03-31T13:15:00.000+01:00I can see why she wrote it. I can't see why she pu...I can see why she wrote it. I can't see why she published it - except to fulfil a contractual obligation. I agree there should be no limits on what writers write about, but as a Mum I think what she did in publishing this while she and her son are not reconciled, while he still has jobs to get and people to impress, was in her best interests (financially)at the expense of his.Nickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442269757463713048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73822089476961666572009-03-30T13:49:00.000+01:002009-03-30T13:49:00.000+01:00What about her duty as a parent? Doesn't that come...What about her duty as a parent? Doesn't that come before her urge to write? It's not tough love to tell everyone about your son's drug problems. It's just bad parenting and exploitation.Brian Keaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17754984212153946279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73072334401487568372009-03-30T12:21:00.000+01:002009-03-30T12:21:00.000+01:00I think Myerson's book is the ultimate in 'tough l...I think Myerson's book is the ultimate in 'tough love'. To change names or fictionalise would have been to soften it. In fact, in fictionalising she could have been accused of exploitation. As it is, she opened herself up to attack by being open with names. Does anyone imagine that she didn't know she'd be vilified for doing this? But she did it anyway. I'm not quite sure what she's hoping to achieve, but I do believe it's an act of maternal love, however strange. It would have been so much easier not to write it.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-66760581031961392912009-03-30T09:52:00.000+01:002009-03-30T09:52:00.000+01:00Hello all. I disagree. I would hate someone close ...Hello all. I disagree. I would hate someone close to me to write a coruscating expose of all my failings. Of course JM has a choice here and of course writers often do mine their own experiences but everyone's truth is different and while we all may agrue and fall out with close family members having it set out and printed for all time so the issues can be raked over and over again cannot do those relationships any good in the long term.<BR/>So JM has chosen to write about her son, fine. I am sure he can make some money writing back about her. But I would hate that to happen to me so I wouldn't do it. I think one of the best 'writer's virtues' we have is empathy, and I think JM has shown very little if she thinks what she has written can do anything but damage a fragile relationship.catherine johnsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-15054631964956913882009-03-30T09:32:00.000+01:002009-03-30T09:32:00.000+01:00I agree wholly. I think families living through si...I agree wholly. <BR/>I think families living through similar hells will agree too.Colhttp://palimpsest.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-38117799918553744222009-03-30T09:17:00.000+01:002009-03-30T09:17:00.000+01:00I agree that we need books about this - as about e...I agree that we need books about this - as about every other - aspect of life. But I'm not sure your point about using real names: if the book had been published with false names, and it had not been revealed that they were false, would you not have read the book in the same way? It would have prevented the damaging fall-out for the family, though of course she could not have done lots of publicity and spinning. (Perhaps she wanted the damaging fall-out in order to shame her son.) <BR/><BR/>I'm sure she thought long and hard about the implications of the book for her family, and whether or not any of us agrees with her decision or would have made the same one, I am with you in believing it was hers - or oher family's - to make.Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84116732493700321762009-03-29T18:39:00.000+01:002009-03-29T18:39:00.000+01:00Hurrah!Hurrah!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com