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May 22, 2006 | Mur Lafferty | Comments 8
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I Should Be Writing 2.0
The podcast for wanna-be fiction writers by a writer who’s still learning. Writer Mur Lafferty discusses rejection, cover letters and getting the oomph to keep going.
congolia | May 22, 2006 | Reply
This makes my blood run cold. People have enough problems distinguishing between the “artist” and the “art”.
It is as if we are all slowly slipping back into a culture based on superstition.
To be fair, I do think that Stephen King killed his first family with an ax, while caretaking a hotel in Colorado. The book was an alibi
Lambo | May 23, 2006 | Reply
I could understand if the police “somehow” came across the story and notice similiar things so they wanted to investigate the possibilities.
The police had no right to threaten, or to make the comment on the subject manner. Especially, since the article hinted they had no search warrant.
heygabe | May 23, 2006 | Reply
Part of me wonders, however, why the LiveJournaler, whose decision not to cooperate with the investigators I support by the way, doesn’t just turn over his fingerprints and be done with it.
I understand that there are certain presumptions of innocence made in the American legal system but I don’t see the harm in just turning over a fingerprint sample if that would get this admittedly overzealous monkey off his back.
Jarrod Henry | May 24, 2006 | Reply
Aww, this isn’t real police. This is Campus Police. I’ve never seen campus police be anything but annoying wannabe cops who secretly believe they are Columbo or brilliant profilers.
In the end, it’s just campus cops doing what campus cops do. I remember when I rode a bike to class here at Middle Tennessee State, that a University Cop pulled me over for failure to signal a turn. I had signaled a right turn with my left arm as taught, and he didn’t know what he was talking about. His superior was pissed.
Ramzi Nashashibi | May 24, 2006 | Reply
I agree campus police are the most thing, besides carrot top. I found your blog and I can relate to it since I know the pain of rejecion.
Anonymous | May 25, 2006 | Reply
Well, if his story bears a striking resemblance to an existing murder, I could understand why the police would want to talk to him, but forcing him to give prints and DNA without any evidence he was involved apart from a piece of fiction (circumstantial evidence at best) is dispicable.
The board trying to drive him off Wikipedia over it is even worse. Wikipedia is about the edits, not the editor. Don’t drag people’s personal lives into it.
I’ll never understand why some people like to destroy someone’s life….
I am SO angry now.
Please post something more fun to make up for this depressing thing.
Sarah from Charleston | May 25, 2006 | Reply
“Part of me wonders, however, why the LiveJournaler, whose decision not to cooperate with the investigators I support by the way, doesn’t just turn over his fingerprints and be done with it.”
It’s a question of rights. As an author, an artist, he has a right to write about whatever he chooses, be it raping babies or little green happy bunnies with marshmellow tails. Can’t guarantee that it will be receieved well, but its his right to write about it and publish it as he sees fit.
Just becuase a person writes about murder does not mean that he is a murderer — which brings me to my next point.
“Well, if his story bears a striking resemblance to an existing murder, I could understand why the police would want to talk to him”
Basically, they are using this non-criminal’s work of FICTION to put his information in a database next to other criminals and suspected criminals so that they can compare it to every murder that has taken place in the span of time this kid was alive.
The point is… you DO NOT have to give up your personal information without a WARRANT, and no one is going to issue a warrent over a work of fiction.
this is the EXACT same thing that is happening wiht the Da Vinci code — people are mistaking it for truth, when it is, in fact, ficiton.
FICTION!
i think people should start going back to the library more becuase they clearly have forgotten the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
and shoot, if this kid DID murder some people, and was … um.. bold enough to write about it.. then kudos to him for knowing the legal system.
Anonymous | Jun 8, 2006 | Reply
must be bloody good writer if the police think his book could be a real story.
and i wouldn’t hand over finger prints could implement me somewhere along the line…