[ SECRET POST #3039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Starsky and Hutch]


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(legend of Zelda)


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[Ernest Hemingway (and his cat)]













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Comments

[iceyred]

I always thought EH was overrated. Never under his appeal.

[vethica]

Yeah, same. I just found him kind of boring. It doesn't help that he's big into sports and nature, and I'm... not.

[iceyred]

Nature is fine, but his prose is so bland and stark I couldn't get into the story.

[sarillia]

I'm not that fond of his style, and it's annoying because my own writing tends towards a very terse style that I need to go back and add to but all the writing advice I come across assumes that everyone is too wordy and should try to be more like Hemingway.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not really a Hemingway thing, that's a Raymond Carver / Gordon Lish / The Iowa Writer's Workshop / the last ~40 years of American prose writin gthing

[sarillia]

True

[iceyred]

That style is kinda irritating. I mean, prose doesn't have to come in all shades of violet, but I like a little bit of pretty description.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's more the preening romanticism that people attach to mentally ill artists like Hemingway. Speaking as someone with mental illness and as an artist, shut the hell up! You don't create great art because of your mental illness, you create mental art in spite of your mental illness! Also, there's the obvious argument that maybe Hemingway would have produced more great art and not blown his brains out if he had been properly medicated and gotten therapy for his issues.

I know I sound so angry, but like I said the preening romanticism pisses me off.

[iceyred]

OMG don't you realize how ~pretty~ it is to be tormented by your own brain?

[lb_lee]

I hear you completely. Romanticizing mental illness pisses me the hell off. Especially the, "medication will destroy your creativity and make you a zombie!" bullshit. Yeah, for some people, meds hurt creativity, but when I'm off my meds, I can't do fucking ANYTHING, creative or non.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Especially when it is coupled with excusing/overlooking abuse because art.