does/should literature take risks?

[cacian]

are you a risky or a frisky writer?




by risks I mean divergences.
out of the norms out of the usual the hostile the macabre or even the unthinkable.

or
and as the saying goes
it is better to be ''safe'' then sorry.
by safe I mean stretchy but not etchy.
by etchy I mean put an idea in someone's head.

this in contrast with simplicity minimalism that is effectual.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Well, this time, the question isn't on a real place, because Risky isn't to a writer mode or personality it is for way, but frisky it can be, so everyone I think tends for frisky style.
For instance, if I wrote something related to violence or anything of oppression then my word tend to be somehow sharp words, am I risky writer or risky poet?
I think not because as we are writers we have been affected by people feelings everywhere and we convey in our poems and our writing their sufferance and their gloom.
Thus we are writers and who doesn't affect by the surrounding environment isn't writer.

[foundleigh]

Not many readers will read texts that make them feel safe. For example, most contemporary novels are not set in a contemporary world. I live in the UK and I think one novel on the Booker long list was set in the UK during this current epoch. When readers read they seek to learn, understand and escape.

Its interesting that we don't get many novels about work. To many this subject will make a horrendously dull novel . Yet its where we spend most of our days and earn our crusts. Perhaps it is because work is overly familiar, that readers feel no desire to read what they know. The reader goes to seek other worlds and other epochs to understand, through another persons eyes, how the world is. This helps explain the current success of fantasy and crime genres.

[YesNo]

are you a risky or a frisky writer?




by risks I mean divergences.
out of the norms out of the usual the hostile the macabre or even the unthinkable.

or
and as the saying goes
it is better to be ''safe'' then sorry.
by safe I mean stretchy but not etchy.
by etchy I mean put an idea in someone's head.

this in contrast with simplicity minimalism that is effectual.

I don't know, but I liked the way you phrased the question.

[cacian]

I don't know, but I liked the way you phrased the question.

lol YesNo haha thank you :)
if you liked the phrasing then the rest should not matter :D

[ennison]

You have an eccentric question style - not a bad thing . A lot of literature is risky ; some of it is frisky . Outsiders write more riskily and insiders more friskily. Outsiders seek to challenge the status quo; insiders are happier, more relaxed and more likely to write for the fun of it. Some insiders in some societies write dull insipid stuff and some outsiders are extremists who have hair-brained notions but get carried away. There's room for both and both have produced valuable stuff.

[Eiseabhal]

You are correct to a point about "insider" literature. It is often not challenging but can be very entertaining. It depends what sort of "culture" that the insider is inside. A lively vibrant optimistic culture or a dead puritanical politically correct culture. In Russia for seventy years almost all the good writers were either persecuted, invisible or in exile. Those insiders who produced decent work either compromised themselves eventually, died young or worked in genre. Look them up!