Sally Carbon
Truth be told, I'm having a dig at society. I started writing Australian Team Series because I was becoming increasing annoyed at societies misinterpretation of sportspeople. We want our athletes to be different, to be the best, and to be risk takers...on the field. And then, we are asking them to faultless, giving and calm...off of it. Unfortunately the second side of this argument is winning out in our society where opinions are making and breaking it. We are dulling down a sportsperson's ability to succeed on the field. We are, and will continue, to get an average sporting outcome, because we are watering down the possibility to be brilliant. This is why I was inspired to write this series. I wanted to get readers to completely and utterly sit within an athletes mind, body and soul and have empathy for what they're going through.
This issue is not just having impact in high performance sport. We're creating the same type of conundrum in the workforce and within our education systems. 'Stick to the rules' we say, then, in the next breath, we inspire with 'dare, its okay to be different, have a go'. But jeepers, if you do that, we'll tell you how 'bad' you've been---just you wait.
Its this message I have used to structure TEAM MATES as well. I deliberately didn't use a romance formula (90 000 words, five sex scenes, third person, boy meets girls, have a problem, solve the problem). I actually cant stand this formula because it isn't real to me. I NEED REAL. I NEED WARTS AND ALL REFLECTION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE. Through sport I've been taught to cope with real. Real is often slow and fatiguing, real is happy, real is heart breaking, and real can be bloody fantastic. But I will not pretend and hide from this real world.
This issue is not just having impact in high performance sport. We're creating the same type of conundrum in the workforce and within our education systems. 'Stick to the rules' we say, then, in the next breath, we inspire with 'dare, its okay to be different, have a go'. But jeepers, if you do that, we'll tell you how 'bad' you've been---just you wait.
Its this message I have used to structure TEAM MATES as well. I deliberately didn't use a romance formula (90 000 words, five sex scenes, third person, boy meets girls, have a problem, solve the problem). I actually cant stand this formula because it isn't real to me. I NEED REAL. I NEED WARTS AND ALL REFLECTION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE. Through sport I've been taught to cope with real. Real is often slow and fatiguing, real is happy, real is heart breaking, and real can be bloody fantastic. But I will not pretend and hide from this real world.
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