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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay so let me get this straight. Writing in a way that feels natural and helps one write easier is "using a crutch?

So everyone is supposed to just write in a style that hinders their progress and doesn't feel normal to them because "it's the RIGHT WAY?" Well fuck that noise. First person is a legit style. Yes, people have misused it in terrible stories. Does that make it automatic bad writing. No.

Also when someone is 'poetic' all the time in their writing it's really annoying and sounds pretentious.

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's easier, less informative, and quite frankly, I know a lot of people do it because they are simply poor writers.

Poetry does not need to be poetic. I'm sorry for you.

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*Poetry does not need to be pretentious.

[(Anonymous)]

Well that's something, that can be revised in the editing stage. When i'm in the initial getting the stuff down stage I use first person. Sometimes I use limited third. Whatever works. Sometimes it's a choice because it works for the story and the character's perspectives are actually part of the story itself.

It may not always be but with that "I pity you" line you're being awfully pretentious yourself. I don't need your pity for having a different opinion. I do not hate poetry itself, but I do find that when some try to aim for poetic they do it wrong leading to a carnival of "how many fancy words can I use at once" rather than just being real and having their own voice, Often people fall into needless purple prose because that's their idea of poetic.

Poor writers do a lot of things. That does not make the things bad if so many poor writers use them. In that case, well with the long history of literature, everything would be poor writing. Avoiding it because you find it weird is one thing. But declaring someone a lesser writer and or saying that "works that use it are mostly shit" is being, quite honestly, a snob.