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1. merchantHelios (merchanthelios@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 14:39:11 JST merchantHelios
   the problem with writing, imo, is that comparative to other forms of art meant to shape the mind and influence the emotions, it has a very low bar of entry. extremely easy to be a wordcel. not so easy to be an artist, or musician.
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   • WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 14:39:10 JST WhiteExodite

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     @merchantHelios I disagree. writing has to work with ideas and concepts and weld them in an evocative way that commands a good deal of literacy.

     But Language cannot, all the same, be dismissed. The incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in our world coeval. The human mind, endowed with the powers of generalization and abstraction, sees not only green-grass, discriminating it from other things (and finding it fair to look upon), but sees that it is green as well as being grass. But how powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty that produced it, was the invention of the adjective: no spell or incantation in Faerie is more potent. And that is not surprising: such incantations might indeed be said to be only another view of adjectives, a part of speech in a mythical grammar. The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter’s power — upon one plane; and the desire to wield that power in the world external to our minds awakes.

     film works with images. paintings work with colors. music works with sounds. these are all fairly easy for any mind to grasp, and we see soundcloud rappers, film contests, and abstract paintings. writing, on the other hand, has to create colors, sound, and images all on its own through vocabulary and similes and so many other tools, and then tell a story through those. it started as oral traditions and still remains the greatest human presentation of ideas.

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   • Bixnood (doonxib@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 15:27:00 JST Bixnood

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     @merchantHelios Writing with any degree of proficiency, let alone being able to produce interest in the work is a very challenging artistic pursuit. Almost no one who set out on the "path" are prepared for what they need to do or understand the particulars of it, and end up as second rate hacks or suffer from any number of shortcomings in their work. Hence why most modern TV shows, movies, and even "books" are abysmal. Another problem that emerges are those that achieve technical mastery, but are completely deficit in delivery or content of what they're writing. I've read countless "English Major" novels that were unreadable.
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 15:29:58 JST New Janny in Town

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     @doonxib @merchantHelios a lot of writers suffer from bad execution and thinking that writing what's in your head without forming them into readable sentences are good. It's why I avoid local literature and turn into western stuff, they're just not fun to read.