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Originally Posted by dull boy
It's nothing. I said something that had little to do with your piece directly and was more about how we write to masturbate and I called your writing masturbation, which was overly harsh, and by saying that I don't mean you're too pussy to handle it, but that it was just more crass than I wanted to project. I'm laying in bed thinking about how nearly all new literature or anything we see really was generally made with a purpose of consumption. We have thoughts and ideas, which are best at inception, and only muddled by our attempts to feed them to others. I think maybe our packaging of ideas and thoughts take away from personal revelations that could build ourselves into better ideas of ourselves for those we directly impact. Our maybe that's just me and I'm projecting. I hate how the internet used to be a world that existed at a desk in a corner that only existed when you were at that desk, and now it's constantly in my pocket. Leave me alone, I need to sleep.
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I'm gonna write a post about this. No joke. Not because it's ironic to do so, but those are thoughts I've grappled with before, since my ultimate ambition is to write fiction for a living. Hard to avoid that mental teeter totter of whether or not your writing loses value when you push for it to be read (inorganically, like posting links on a message board).
I appreciate and respect your thoughts. I don't want people to read my shit and say yay you're awesome good job. I want discussion sparked, thoughts provoked, etc. Crass or not (I tend to think not), your input is excellent.