{"id":5646,"date":"2017-10-06T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2017-10-06T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:55:17","slug":"trigger-warnings-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5646\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigger Warnings in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via someone I follow on Twitter who is quite possibly mentally ill comes trigger-warnings in books:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Triggering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Triggering-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Triggering-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Triggering-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Triggering.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what a reader is supposed to do here. Do they simply skip the chapters in question, in which case they are either missing something important or the chapters shouldn&#8217;t have been included in the first place? Or do they line up a row of multi-coloured prescription pills and brace for impact as the offending chapter nears? Perhaps they&#8217;d be better off reading something else altogether.<\/p>\n<p>And 40 chapters in a book that size? Actually, I&#8217;ve checked Amazon and it&#8217;s 43 chapters in a book with 312 pages. A new chapter every 7 pages. Not surprising it comes with a warning.<\/p>\n<p>My own book, which is currently with an agent who will hopefully point me towards a decent editor, will not come with any such warnings. Although I am quite certain it will piss a lot of people off, particularly women with sympathetic leanings towards deranged, third-wave feminism. As one author I know responded to criticism of his book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t care if you <em>liked<\/em> it, hell I don&#8217;t even care if you <em>read<\/em> it. I just wanted you to <em>buy<\/em> it!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via someone I follow on Twitter who is quite possibly mentally ill comes trigger-warnings in books: I&#8217;m not sure what a reader is supposed to do here. Do they simply skip the chapters in question, in which case they are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5646\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}