EClark1894 posted at 10:41PM Tue, 21 February 2017 - #4298058

AmbientShade posted at 10:24PM Tue, 21 February 2017 - #4298040

I do this when I'm writing. Not really deliberately, it just happens that way most of the time. But I'm also a bit of a perfectionist, so when I do go back to re-read it, I think it's trash and start over. This is probably why I've been writing the same novel since the early 90s.

Okay, yeah, that I do. Probably just one of the many reasons I haven't sold a script. There are plenty of reasons, sure, but that's a major one. I'm still working on a couple of scripts that when I started them they might have been considered unique and touching. With things the way they are now politically, they might actually be considered offensive.

I wouldn't be too concerned about offending people, especially if you have a message you think should be heard. Everything offends someone to some extent or another. That's the point of art, imo. If every artist or writer or musician was afraid of offending people then we wouldn't have anything to talk about. And sometimes people just need to be offended to wake them up.