Most of the time, violence in the arts disappoints me.
A chalk art festival in Utah included drawings of cowboys and guns. Why couldn't the artists have chosen something more creative?
The same goes for the endings of too many novels and movies. Good guys kill bad guys. It happens over and over.
Not all depictions of violence are formulaic. Guernica, the famous painting by Picasso, is powerful.
I'm penning a young adult novel. It's an adventure story set in the Appalachian Mountains. No violence occurs in the story. I'm relying on an assumption: Readers fancy psychological conflict over physical conflict.
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