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You could go out and experience a bunch of crazy shit and at the end of it all, not know how to put it in words that people will understand. That's what makes w

You could go out and experience a bunch of crazy shit and at the end of it all, not know how to put it in words that people will understand. That's what makes writing a craft. You could write passionately and still not get to what you're trying to say because you don't know how to make the words work for you. But I do agree, there's no point in writing something unless people are compelled to read it.

objclxt 13y ago
> there's no point in writing something unless people are compelled to read it I would probably disagree with this, if only in the sense that there are several works I can think of that at the time of publication were ignored, only to be re-appraised at a later date. It can be very hard to determine whether your writing is compelling, and even if your contemporaries decide it isn't there's no reason it may not be relevant in the future.