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Oct. 22nd, 2004 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13I forgot to mention one of the things that Richard Van Camp said in his opening banter. He talked about how he started writing because he was a reader and he didn't see anyone writing about his life. He grew up in a northern community. "No one was writing about going to school on a skidoo, or fighting in the snow," he said.
This is one of the main reasons why I want to write fiction. I read and I read, but I don't see my experiences. Very few people write about growing up in a mixed race family in a small city. I read and I read, but I never see myself.
This is one of the main reasons why I want to write fiction. I read and I read, but I don't see my experiences. Very few people write about growing up in a mixed race family in a small city. I read and I read, but I never see myself.
How specific does he want to get?
Date: 2004-10-23 10:31 pm (UTC)Yep, it's me, Darren. What are we talking about here? There's plenty of contemporary writing about the Canadian wilderness and rural life--David Macfarlane, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, plenty of others (it's not work that I seek out, so I'm admittedly short on names). If it's First Nations writers, Thomson Highway, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Thomas King immediately spring to mind.
That's not to mention Canadian television, which is (and has been for years) full of shows about growing up in small towns.
Not a big deal, but I don't think Richard's got a lot to complain about. DB.