We writers dream of danger and put it into our works. We murder innocent fictional victims left and right, sometimes for a reason, sometimes for no reason at all
Last night in Aurora, Colorado, someone walked into a movie theater, tossed a smoke grenade and drew a machine type weapon and sprayed the audience during the midnight showing of a Batman movie.
According to this morning's news, at least 12 people are dead and some 50 wounded, though these figures are probably not accurate.
Makes you, as a writer, wonder--do I have too much violence in my stories? Are the movie scripts we create full of unnecessary blood and gore? How would what I write or create possibly affect the reader or viewer?
My heart goes out to the innocents in Aurora, the young people, the few children who were there and the adults who will have this memory for the rest of their lives.
My advice--perhaps, to those in Aurora and its surroundings--think twice before you blithely send your kids off to the movies that are full of violence. To those who were there...seek counseling.
God bless you all.
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