That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.