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Maybe no form of _non-fiction_ writing benefits from it, but that's not the only type of writing there is. Let me link a clip from Dead Poets Society regarding
by apeescape 2y ago
Maybe no form of _non-fiction_ writing benefits from it, but that's not the only type of writing there is. Let me link a clip from Dead Poets Society regarding this: https://youtu.be/WfZu-Um9PV0?feature=shared https://youtu.be/WfZu-Um9PV0?feature=shared
- tomrod 2y agoPeople post fiction on the internet?
- nemomarx 2y agoYeah, well the time? Plenty of sites dedicated to that. You get feedback on your writing quickly, although if it's serialized there's some drawbacks for pacing.
- ffsm8 2y agoWeb fiction as a draft has essentially become the norm for light novel type books (<300 pages ultimately published as epub) Random example: https://www.ironteethserial.com/dark-fantasy-story/story-interlude/prologue/ https://www.ironteethserial.com/dark-fantasy-story/story-int...
- fwip 2y agoThere's more fiction on the Internet than there is in print.
- strken 2y agoThe poetry I like is by nature beautiful. Beauty is not created by taking a thesaurus and shaking it upside-down over your keyboard. Are you morose? Perhaps you are sad, very sad in fact, but find that you are neither glum nor morose, not disheartened nor heartbroken, not anguished nor stricken, not unsure of how you will go on nor distressed, and neither grieved nor aggrieved nor yet maddened with grief. Perhaps your feelings of sadness are to be expressed quietly and without intruding.
- apeescape 2y agoI'm sure there's a sensible middleground between never using big words vs. using them only to add complexity.
- strken 2y agoThat's absolutely true. I would like them used in an intentional way, though. If you just slap them down anywhere then you end up with a sentence like "Obscurantist verbiage is a calling card of the intellectual qua gatekeeper, in that necessary role serving to further the creeping and not unimpenetrable calcification of human linguistic torture" and anyone who has to read your writing will wish you were dead, which is bad, or copy you, which is worse.
- dukeyukey 2y agoBig words are like specialist power tools - they have their place, and if you know how to use them, add a massive amount of value. But if you don't, or if you can reasonably use simpler words, don't use the big ones.