{"id":2321,"date":"2020-04-23T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2020-04-21T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:44:29","slug":"writing-topic-no-nos-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/23\/writing-topic-no-nos-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing topic no-nos #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CreatingThis week\u2019s blog question is whether there are any topics you won\u2019t write about. Sure. I won\u2019t write about politics, religion, or another person\u2019s spouse. One of my earliest pieces of advice came from my dad who lived most of his adult life in close quarters with a bunch of other men on naval ships. He said those three things were topics no one should ever discuss. I assume because they were hot buttons that would cause fights. I\u2019ll take that to mean I shouldn’t write about them, too. They\u2019re nothing but trouble.<\/p>\n

There are also topics I won\u2019t address because I simply couldn\u2019t do them justice. Same sex romances, for example. I read them, and there are some \"Don'tgreat romances in that genre. But I know my limitations and I would not be able to write a same sex romance that would be good enough for anyone to read. This is also a problem with stories that have strong animal characters. I love dogs and cats but I don\u2019t have all that much experience with them, sadly. Would I be able to portray them as main assets in a book? I fear not.<\/p>\n

\"Burning<\/a>Other than those things I should never address in writing and those I don\u2019t think I can do well enough, I don\u2019t think there is anything else I avoid\u2014other than the things stipulated in every publisher\u2019s submission guidelines, and you know what they are. For the longest time, I refused to write about anything having to do with Vietnam. The period of the war was just too painful. But I\u2019ve gotten past that\u2014I made myself get past it with a novella (Coming Home) and using it as part of the background in my book, Burning Bridges<\/em> (written as Anne Krist).<\/p>\n

What won\u2019t you write about? Or as a reader, what won\u2019t you read?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a>
\nBurning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist: old letters put the lie to Sara\u2019s life. Now, mending her past mistakes while crossing burning bridges will be the hardest thing she\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n

One Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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