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1. Writing is hard.
2. You get no points for doing your best.
3. Readers award no points for difficulty. (Suggested by Greg van Eekhout.)
2. You get no points for doing your best.
3. Readers award no points for difficulty. (Suggested by Greg van Eekhout.)
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Date: 2007-10-21 07:27 pm (UTC)3. Readers award no points for difficulty.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:31 pm (UTC)Good point.
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Date: 2007-10-21 10:31 pm (UTC)Hell, at the moment I'm taking points away as fast as I can.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:13 pm (UTC)1. Writing is fun!
2. You get no points for trying too hard to be fancy.
3. (some) Readers will love your work if you love your work.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:20 pm (UTC)Bring it on :-)
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:22 pm (UTC)3. If you write with joy, your readers will read with joy.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 09:30 pm (UTC)3. If you are COMPETENT and write with joy, your readers will read with joy.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 09:35 pm (UTC)(I'm basically describing myself as a writer there: I write competently, but with joy.)
(or if not with joy, with much happiness most of the time)
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 09:41 pm (UTC)For me it's putting the words in an order so that they make sense.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 10:02 pm (UTC)Like, for example, dare I say, the writers who write the experimental narrative because it's safe, because they don't actually know how to write plot and character, which is, maybe, dangerous?
You know they're out there.
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Date: 2007-10-21 10:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 09:36 pm (UTC)This is why I apply the principles of wabi sabi to my writing, making sure at least one fundamental aspect of the story is royally screwed up, thus making it more human and beautiful.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-21 09:41 pm (UTC)It's an interesting idea in theory, but stories are mechanical at the level I was thinking. In the sense that, you can't apply the aesthetic principle of wabi sabi to something that must "go." If it doesn't go, it doesn't work, and it's aesthetic value is meaningless.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:31 pm (UTC)I do believe in a something similar, however, which is that, all things being equal, if you write about a subject passionately, you may be able to make the reader passionate about the subject as well. But I don't think it's a certainty, just a good bet.
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Date: 2007-10-21 09:58 pm (UTC)And (some) readers will simply think you are a massive wanker! Alas.
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