Do you ever feel that sometimes you could do with a collapsible soap box available to you when you come across an issue that winds you up? You could just do with getting onto the soapbox and spouting your opinions about the issue. As a writer, you have the ideal platform.
There are a couple of ways in which you can broadcast your
feelings from your metaphorical soapbox when you’re writing. You can actually
write the whole story, weaving the current affairs issue into the narrative.
This could involve your characters taking positions that you identify with
yourself. Or you can insert relevant paragraphs that express your opinions
literally. In Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune, he uses the latter
strategy very effectively.
As I have written about on many previous occasions, it is
your duty as a writer to produce some commentary on current affairs. It
certainly fits into the category of writing from where you're at, and as such, you are providing information for future historical reference.
In fact, it can also be a great deal of fun to indulge
oneself in this type of exercise. (Unless you live in Russia.) In fact, some such commentary remains relevant almost 200 years since published. Try Dickens writings in the 1840's and more recently 1984 by Orwell, which have attitudes reflected in what is going on in the USA currently.
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