Day 23

Today’s discussion is about the writer’s point of view.

This is different to the point of view, like writing in the first person.

I’m not sure as Rod Serling puts it, “The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience”.

Maybe if you’re going to intertwine the dilemma of climate change advancing upon us in a practical sense through the pages of a novel, though if you are well versed in what climate change is going to do, it might serve as a warning, and help slow it down.

It might also be used to highlight the very real effect of women being treated badly in a number of situations, at home, at work, and in general.

It might also highlight the very real problems that people in the United States are going to be subjected to in the wake of the ‘two genders’ proclamation. Knowing several transgender and non-binary people, it seems to me that it is an affront to their dignity. A story that highlights their plight might go a long way to educating others about their situation.

There are a great many themes, some of them controversial, that could and are aired from time to time, and it is a path you can go down, but a lot of research is required to get an accurate picture.

As someone who is closely associated with a transgender, and who has travelled the rollercoaster ride of discovering who they are, the discussions with psychiatrists and doctors, the ‘exercises’ that the subject undergoes, long before the operation to change gender, the surgery, the aftermath, and the reaction from those closer and not so close, I can say from experience that it is brutal and sometimes leaves the subject questioning everything.

It is not surprising then that the suicide rate of transgender people alone is one of the highest in the world.

Perhaps I will get around to writing that story sooner rather than later.