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I am wrong.
You see, I had this wonderful perception that writing wasn't about words, but about emotion. About telling people about yourself, and your mind.
But I am wrong.
For you see, writing isn't about any of those things. It's about description.
Because if you describe something with enough words that you have to look up in a dictionary to understand, then you can communicate with people.
And there was me thinking that you know, it was just the ability to grab someone, and talk to them for a while without them getting bored. That's what reading is, surely? You shouldn't have to really, really concentrate to read something? Does a film maker force you to keep your eyes and ears open through the whole of the film? Does a musician ask for you to be silent while he sings? No, because these things we want to listen to, we want to watch. We have that decision to make, and we can make it ourselves.
Except when it comes to writing. In order to win a competition, you don't have to write something that people want to read... you have to write something that only the elite can read. Yes, the ones that enjoy writing because it's an intelligent past-time. All the kids with their greased down hair won't pick on you now, will they? You've found your religion, and a thousand other idiots just like you. All followed the wrong roads, believe they're superior.
Superior fashions, "We're not like them, because there are thousands like me." Comfort in finding something different, but still not being yourself.
What sparked all this off? I've been searching for competitions. Seeing what's won them.
Things you have to go back and re-read a few times, just so you understand it. What the hell is the point? Writing is about communication... trying to speak to thousands. No wonder hardly anyone reads, the writers are driving them away.
Don't they want their work to be read?
"No, I'd rather have my audience of INTELLIGENT people, thank you. I don't write books for children."
Easy to understand, of course, makes something childish. Something that you don't have to re-read a thousand times while the author bangs one off in the corner because he's so fascinating and hard to understand... he knows nothing. An artist. Someone who wishes to be alone, to inspire no-one but himself.
People like that make me sick. And the world is full of them. And they're winning competitions.
It's going to be a damn hard time to find someone who enjoys my style of writing. Instead of seeing "Hmmm... well, that's good, but his vocabulary is a little slim...", seeing "Hell, I want to read that again." Because that's all I want really. Someone to just pick up something I've wrote, and to read it.
Or pick up something I've made, and watch it, play it, use it. I have no intention of trying to segregrate myself from society so I can go to wine parties and be told how amazing my mind is.
Sure, it's a nice compliment, but people who are told that don't care. They don't care about you, they just know that they can write any old crap, they can do it inbetween the news and Emmerdale, and they can still sell books.
Word word word word word... instead of wordy word word, worrrrd, word wordy wordy word. They speak in different languages, they quote in phrases that they know nobody understands, but they had to look it up themselves to know. If you can write something, using words that people understand, but still confuse them, THEN, you are a genius. But we shouldn't confuse people. Just try to help them understand a bit more.
Communication can lead to a united people. Why is everyone so afraid?
You see, I had this wonderful perception that writing wasn't about words, but about emotion. About telling people about yourself, and your mind.
But I am wrong.
For you see, writing isn't about any of those things. It's about description.
Because if you describe something with enough words that you have to look up in a dictionary to understand, then you can communicate with people.
And there was me thinking that you know, it was just the ability to grab someone, and talk to them for a while without them getting bored. That's what reading is, surely? You shouldn't have to really, really concentrate to read something? Does a film maker force you to keep your eyes and ears open through the whole of the film? Does a musician ask for you to be silent while he sings? No, because these things we want to listen to, we want to watch. We have that decision to make, and we can make it ourselves.
Except when it comes to writing. In order to win a competition, you don't have to write something that people want to read... you have to write something that only the elite can read. Yes, the ones that enjoy writing because it's an intelligent past-time. All the kids with their greased down hair won't pick on you now, will they? You've found your religion, and a thousand other idiots just like you. All followed the wrong roads, believe they're superior.
Superior fashions, "We're not like them, because there are thousands like me." Comfort in finding something different, but still not being yourself.
What sparked all this off? I've been searching for competitions. Seeing what's won them.
Things you have to go back and re-read a few times, just so you understand it. What the hell is the point? Writing is about communication... trying to speak to thousands. No wonder hardly anyone reads, the writers are driving them away.
Don't they want their work to be read?
"No, I'd rather have my audience of INTELLIGENT people, thank you. I don't write books for children."
Easy to understand, of course, makes something childish. Something that you don't have to re-read a thousand times while the author bangs one off in the corner because he's so fascinating and hard to understand... he knows nothing. An artist. Someone who wishes to be alone, to inspire no-one but himself.
People like that make me sick. And the world is full of them. And they're winning competitions.
It's going to be a damn hard time to find someone who enjoys my style of writing. Instead of seeing "Hmmm... well, that's good, but his vocabulary is a little slim...", seeing "Hell, I want to read that again." Because that's all I want really. Someone to just pick up something I've wrote, and to read it.
Or pick up something I've made, and watch it, play it, use it. I have no intention of trying to segregrate myself from society so I can go to wine parties and be told how amazing my mind is.
Sure, it's a nice compliment, but people who are told that don't care. They don't care about you, they just know that they can write any old crap, they can do it inbetween the news and Emmerdale, and they can still sell books.
Word word word word word... instead of wordy word word, worrrrd, word wordy wordy word. They speak in different languages, they quote in phrases that they know nobody understands, but they had to look it up themselves to know. If you can write something, using words that people understand, but still confuse them, THEN, you are a genius. But we shouldn't confuse people. Just try to help them understand a bit more.
Communication can lead to a united people. Why is everyone so afraid?
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Bah. :0D
No, sometimes I really like stuff like that. It's when they do it ALL THE WAY THROUGH is when it annoys me.
They write as if it's a dictated term, that's the problem. They only have the one style, which is the "standard English style for writing fictional pieces". I have a style, and it's just called "Grix". :0D
On another note, my IT coursework was labelled as the most fantastic piece of fiction my teacher has ever read in his life. I was very proud. The database on which my project was based was supposed to be for him, and I faked letters from me to him and back again. :0)
Back on topic: French Connection is great, I've told you that. But that's communication lined again though...
The only problem I really have with films like that, is that I find it difficult to hear what they're saying sometimes, so I feel I'm missing quite a lot.
When, on the other hand, look at Raging Bull. You don't even need to hear what words they're saying, you can just watch the whole film from the tones in their voices. Fantastic film.
But books are on the whole dull and depressing. Probably why I've been avoiding trying to write, because I don't really fit in with the horrible styles they use. Mainly.
I'll say it one more time though, you got the wrong end of the stick when I talked about artists not communicating because they're full of themselves... writing on a "higher" plane, and putting something in that forces you to think, and ponder, and not come to a specific answer, is different. That's called allowing the reader/watcher/soldier/spy to use their imagination and mind. Completely different to talking down at someone.
No, sometimes I really like stuff like that. It's when they do it ALL THE WAY THROUGH is when it annoys me.
They write as if it's a dictated term, that's the problem. They only have the one style, which is the "standard English style for writing fictional pieces". I have a style, and it's just called "Grix". :0D
On another note, my IT coursework was labelled as the most fantastic piece of fiction my teacher has ever read in his life. I was very proud. The database on which my project was based was supposed to be for him, and I faked letters from me to him and back again. :0)
Back on topic: French Connection is great, I've told you that. But that's communication lined again though...
The only problem I really have with films like that, is that I find it difficult to hear what they're saying sometimes, so I feel I'm missing quite a lot.
When, on the other hand, look at Raging Bull. You don't even need to hear what words they're saying, you can just watch the whole film from the tones in their voices. Fantastic film.
But books are on the whole dull and depressing. Probably why I've been avoiding trying to write, because I don't really fit in with the horrible styles they use. Mainly.
I'll say it one more time though, you got the wrong end of the stick when I talked about artists not communicating because they're full of themselves... writing on a "higher" plane, and putting something in that forces you to think, and ponder, and not come to a specific answer, is different. That's called allowing the reader/watcher/soldier/spy to use their imagination and mind. Completely different to talking down at someone.
I know what you mean. Stories where they just end and you think what's the point that this person's trying to make. But you're not entirely right...
In the French Connection the ending is enigmatic. But it's a good ending because the story you've been told has enthralled you throughout and the ending has just made you think, well goddam maybe there's more to this here film than I thought. It adds a dimension that you can explore if you wish. Some writers just end stories abruptly and expect you to go back and figure out whatever obtuse point they're trying to make. They don't let you enjoy it on a basic level and that's the problem.
I like reading books that are beautifully written. You don't need long words to write beautifully; it's just about sounds and rhythm and the way sentences ebb and flow. Communicating beyond words. And I have to go and my tea now but i'll resume this later...
Cheer up :-)
In the French Connection the ending is enigmatic. But it's a good ending because the story you've been told has enthralled you throughout and the ending has just made you think, well goddam maybe there's more to this here film than I thought. It adds a dimension that you can explore if you wish. Some writers just end stories abruptly and expect you to go back and figure out whatever obtuse point they're trying to make. They don't let you enjoy it on a basic level and that's the problem.
I like reading books that are beautifully written. You don't need long words to write beautifully; it's just about sounds and rhythm and the way sentences ebb and flow. Communicating beyond words. And I have to go and my tea now but i'll resume this later...
Cheer up :-)
I am wrong.
You see, I had this wonderful perception that writing wasn't about words, but about emotion. About telling people about yourself, and your mind.
But I am wrong.
For you see, writing isn't about any of those things. It's about description.
Because if you describe something with enough words that you have to look up in a dictionary to understand, then you can communicate with people.
And there was me thinking that you know, it was just the ability to grab someone, and talk to them for a while without them getting bored. That's what reading is, surely? You shouldn't have to really, really concentrate to read something? Does a film maker force you to keep your eyes and ears open through the whole of the film? Does a musician ask for you to be silent while he sings? No, because these things we want to listen to, we want to watch. We have that decision to make, and we can make it ourselves.
Except when it comes to writing. In order to win a competition, you don't have to write something that people want to read... you have to write something that only the elite can read. Yes, the ones that enjoy writing because it's an intelligent past-time. All the kids with their greased down hair won't pick on you now, will they? You've found your religion, and a thousand other idiots just like you. All followed the wrong roads, believe they're superior.
Superior fashions, "We're not like them, because there are thousands like me." Comfort in finding something different, but still not being yourself.
What sparked all this off? I've been searching for competitions. Seeing what's won them.
Things you have to go back and re-read a few times, just so you understand it. What the hell is the point? Writing is about communication... trying to speak to thousands. No wonder hardly anyone reads, the writers are driving them away.
Don't they want their work to be read?
"No, I'd rather have my audience of INTELLIGENT people, thank you. I don't write books for children."
Easy to understand, of course, makes something childish. Something that you don't have to re-read a thousand times while the author bangs one off in the corner because he's so fascinating and hard to understand... he knows nothing. An artist. Someone who wishes to be alone, to inspire no-one but himself.
People like that make me sick. And the world is full of them. And they're winning competitions.
It's going to be a damn hard time to find someone who enjoys my style of writing. Instead of seeing "Hmmm... well, that's good, but his vocabulary is a little slim...", seeing "Hell, I want to read that again." Because that's all I want really. Someone to just pick up something I've wrote, and to read it.
Or pick up something I've made, and watch it, play it, use it. I have no intention of trying to segregrate myself from society so I can go to wine parties and be told how amazing my mind is.
Sure, it's a nice compliment, but people who are told that don't care. They don't care about you, they just know that they can write any old crap, they can do it inbetween the news and Emmerdale, and they can still sell books.
Word word word word word... instead of wordy word word, worrrrd, word wordy wordy word. They speak in different languages, they quote in phrases that they know nobody understands, but they had to look it up themselves to know. If you can write something, using words that people understand, but still confuse them, THEN, you are a genius. But we shouldn't confuse people. Just try to help them understand a bit more.
Communication can lead to a united people. Why is everyone so afraid?
You see, I had this wonderful perception that writing wasn't about words, but about emotion. About telling people about yourself, and your mind.
But I am wrong.
For you see, writing isn't about any of those things. It's about description.
Because if you describe something with enough words that you have to look up in a dictionary to understand, then you can communicate with people.
And there was me thinking that you know, it was just the ability to grab someone, and talk to them for a while without them getting bored. That's what reading is, surely? You shouldn't have to really, really concentrate to read something? Does a film maker force you to keep your eyes and ears open through the whole of the film? Does a musician ask for you to be silent while he sings? No, because these things we want to listen to, we want to watch. We have that decision to make, and we can make it ourselves.
Except when it comes to writing. In order to win a competition, you don't have to write something that people want to read... you have to write something that only the elite can read. Yes, the ones that enjoy writing because it's an intelligent past-time. All the kids with their greased down hair won't pick on you now, will they? You've found your religion, and a thousand other idiots just like you. All followed the wrong roads, believe they're superior.
Superior fashions, "We're not like them, because there are thousands like me." Comfort in finding something different, but still not being yourself.
What sparked all this off? I've been searching for competitions. Seeing what's won them.
Things you have to go back and re-read a few times, just so you understand it. What the hell is the point? Writing is about communication... trying to speak to thousands. No wonder hardly anyone reads, the writers are driving them away.
Don't they want their work to be read?
"No, I'd rather have my audience of INTELLIGENT people, thank you. I don't write books for children."
Easy to understand, of course, makes something childish. Something that you don't have to re-read a thousand times while the author bangs one off in the corner because he's so fascinating and hard to understand... he knows nothing. An artist. Someone who wishes to be alone, to inspire no-one but himself.
People like that make me sick. And the world is full of them. And they're winning competitions.
It's going to be a damn hard time to find someone who enjoys my style of writing. Instead of seeing "Hmmm... well, that's good, but his vocabulary is a little slim...", seeing "Hell, I want to read that again." Because that's all I want really. Someone to just pick up something I've wrote, and to read it.
Or pick up something I've made, and watch it, play it, use it. I have no intention of trying to segregrate myself from society so I can go to wine parties and be told how amazing my mind is.
Sure, it's a nice compliment, but people who are told that don't care. They don't care about you, they just know that they can write any old crap, they can do it inbetween the news and Emmerdale, and they can still sell books.
Word word word word word... instead of wordy word word, worrrrd, word wordy wordy word. They speak in different languages, they quote in phrases that they know nobody understands, but they had to look it up themselves to know. If you can write something, using words that people understand, but still confuse them, THEN, you are a genius. But we shouldn't confuse people. Just try to help them understand a bit more.
Communication can lead to a united people. Why is everyone so afraid?
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