[stylist] What is allowed or not allowed on NFB lists

[Joe Orozco]

What I find interesting is that it seems very few people actually share
their writing on the list.  The debate is almost comical considering people
are running every which way before it even starts raining.  Writing is an
artistic expression, and does art really distinguish age?  A sculpture of a
naked body, for example, is nothing more than a depiction of nature, but it
would appear some here would find its display obscenely offensive.  It's a
matter of perception, I suppose, but art is either free or it is nothing
more than an assignment.  Conforming to specific rules is not an exercise in
creativity.  It is bending to someone else's view of what art ought to be.
I'm sorry that some are opposed to strong language, violence and
descriptions of sex, but if you are completely opposed to the content before
it has even been given a chance to be shared, and if you are opposed to it
even with precautionary warnings, you are living in a protective bubble.
You need not agree with the material to be able to take what works for you
and learn from it to strengthen your own preferred style of writing.  It
almost seems like sharing material here is more trouble than it's worth.

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 11:26 PM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: [stylist] What is allowed or not allowed on NFB lists

List members, 2 things:
 
First- I have written the NFB webmaster, David Andrews for an 
accounting on
what we or any one can post to an NFB mailing list. Soon we 
will know what
our limits are, no matter if we personally or as a Division 
want one thing
or another, the higher authority will rule.
 
Second- There again, guys, one way to share that avoids any list rules
and/or one individual's personal dislikes, is to ask for 
volunteers and the
author sends his or her work via attachment to those who are 
willing to read
the work. 
 
 
 
Robert Leslie Newman
President NFB Writers' division 
Writers' Division Website-
http://www.nfb-writers-division.org 
<http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> 
Personal Website- 
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
 
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