(10-19-2011, 09:54 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: Are you suggesting that a novelist must explain the hows, whys and wherefores in order to ethically write a novel?No.
(10-19-2011, 09:54 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: Or that the novelist cannot write the novel without disclosing whether it is fact or fiction? This is a very small ethical box.It would be, if that's what I was suggesting.
(10-19-2011, 09:54 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: If it resonates, zenmaster, it is truth.Sure. Everything is truth, therefore even if you don't resonate with it, it doesn't matter. But that's not the point.
(10-19-2011, 09:54 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: I The source is of no consequence. A zen master should know that.A zen master would probably know that, and most people too. But that's not what I was talking about.
What I was referring to was the unethical depiction of truth.
(10-19-2011, 10:31 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: You ever get into the story that puts the responsibility of a creator on your shoulders? It can sometimes be too much for me.Well, since a creator's responsibility is a conscious choice, I'm not sure what you refer to as being 'too much'. It's probably not responsibility, but an imbalance with respect to the story.