if textceeing was a viable career, would you do it?
 

like, if you battled/participated in tournaments etc 5 days a week with comparable hours to your job now and for comparable pay.


if yes, what would you tell people your job was?

@Certain pretty much does this anyway

think he calls himself an editor but all he essentially is is a full time topical writer lol

I'd do this.

Just tell ppl I'm a writer.

If they ask what I write, THEN I'll explain to them about text battling & it's history. But only then.

Thatd be a dope job.

I'd no call no show tho.

lol @ no call no show


get paid what i do now to text battle? absolutely. i don't really like what i'm doing at the moment so that isnt a hard decision.

y? do u have a plan????????

I haven't written a full verse in six months.

But considering that I have been doing this for more than half my life, on and off, the answer probably would be yes, if it paid well enough. I imagine it would be a system where money was earned through a mix of winning battles/leagues/tournaments and running them. I would do both and even be a professor of this shit because you know some school would have a class on it.

me neither yo :(

last thing i attempted was a verse about Vsaya after seeing it as a topic during the winter topical or something

its not finished, just a start

i might come back to it at some point

Vsaya

The story begins with him dismissing the rumours
wafting through the poorest of cities on the river Yamuna.
A little community with little to show for it
as he fidgets profusely trying to think of an opening.
He sits for a moment and contends with his anxiousness
watching the fisherman's only daughter ferrying passengers.
The vessels immaculate sculpture second only to her
slender anatomy and copious curves.
He motions the girl to come ashore once she's finished
rowing in earnest between the source of the river.
He calls to the fishergirl "Lend me your hand!"
supporting her figure while she leapt onto land.
Her flesh was the sand-coloured peaks you can see
on a deserts expanse in the far reach of the East.
"I need you," he briefly paused "to help me across"
- though immediately, she could tell what he wants!
She felt her astonishment beginning to soar
as the smell still prolonged from the fish she had caught!
The lingering pause only making her blush
and filling his thoughts with insatiable lust.
Her gaze was enough for the mullah to start
embracing the young Yamunayan in his sculpturesque arms.
Their culture regarded charmed
impulses were charged
They were
He embraces her
The ???? couple
she hadn't
pull her hijab



The question marks and off phrases at the end are how I write. I keep searching for the perfect rhyme that fits until I reach one I'm happy with, then I continue the rhyme. I usually throw in question marks to substitute in rhymes when I come back to them later. It's a very, very laborious process but i'm a perfectionist and won't put down anything I don't feel is right.

I'd do it and freelance gig a lot more

Say I'm a professional musician to avoid that conversation with some people

Def would. I board @ work so I get paid to txt already, but yea I would do it as a career like live battle rappers

lmaoooooooooo useless wouldn't earn shit

first text rapper to be picking up his P45, guaranteed

this motherfucker would prob get a written warning over "textual harassment" for his horrid forced wordplays and butchering of concepts

ole YOU'RE FIRED ass faggot

roflzzz

Lmaoooo

I would legit write text battles or topicals 24/7 if I was being paid.

We should all be working on ways to make it a viable career. Have you ever thought how much time you've sunken into this non-paying hobby? It's embarrassing, actually.

Shit id be #1 in the game boyyyyy

lmao.

Anyways, who wouldn't do it. Only thing is, how much worse would your writing get? Writing that much I think will strain your creativity.

But yeah, make it happen.

I wasn't joking!! If you spent as much time on learning to fix cars or computers as you did on learning on how to rhyme 4 straight syllables without sounding terrible, you'd be able to make money off it by now without a doubt.

And that question you posed is one that faces every new writer who leaps from writing in their spare time to deciding to do it as a profession, but there's still many that persevere and carve out careers.

The idea of making money off text just sounds funny to us because there's been no viable revenue stream for it over the past 20 years it's been around. People used to say the same thing about battle rap too, though. Now those guys get thousands per appearance. The problem with what we do is that the community is so insular.

Good post. This is one of the reasons why I've taken a step back from this wonderful hobby. I need to think about my own present and future financial stability.

I write for a living anyway, and I do think this hobby helped that career path.

It's a young man's game.

I'd partake

I always said if I had the means I'd host a tourney w/ a huge prize

Problem is ..eradicating cheating

Iono if it's possible

@Richard corey @SCRYPT

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I have much to say about this, for one a collective understanding of progress would have to be established. Ncs patriarch with rb synergy, etc.

The secret is there is no end to secrets.

Teach us the ways old wise one

how so?

It fostered creativity, forced me to read and write more (even if it mostly was bad, in the scheme of things, it still counts) and made me more critical in evaluating writing.

Wouldn't that just make us.....poetic bloggers?.....idk where the battlers would fit in lol

I got you. I feel like it helped me figure out how to meet deadlines, but as for my actual writing I can't say any type of textceeing really helped me much.

Everything helps or hurts. There's no way to write as often as we have and allow it no impact on the rest of our writing.

Agreed. I probably tailored my topical writing to voting trends too much, which made me successful in leagues, but I developed some bad habits as a result.

Tailoring your writing to actual readership can be a massively important skill.

Jeez, which one of us is the hippy now, Mr. Silver Lining?

nah that's true. I was more referring to my tendencies to be heavy-handed and over explain things, which are weaknesses in my writing that I somewhat attribute to my time in topical leagues.

I can see that. But it's better to over-explain than leave readers wondering what the fuck you're talking about.

I think developing your style to the tastes of readers is the best thing you can do and the most valuable asset this site offers us. You write for the readers. Otherwise, why write?

Art is a catharsis—or a needle to a vinyl vein—
Scratching the surface . . .

Sometimes I don't know I was thinking a certain way until I write it.

And sometimes if I am obsessing over whatever, as I tend to do...it's only when I write it down and read it back I see how absurd it is, which helps me let it go.

The world never sees these writtens obv, not even my topical friends.