Little literary thoughts
Some random small thoughts provoked by nothing in particular and collected over the last few months.
- should write a post about my ideal writer cooperative community
- I bought poetry I'm not that into because I think my city ought to be able to support a poet laureate. We should be capable of that, as a place
- I'm not sure why the writing group has dwindled again when I think a lot of people are really into writing? And really want community?
- chapbooks are cool. More people should just print and staple their work and put it out there
- we need to remember there has always been stuff written to market, tropes, trends, dross, fandom, celebrity authors, cash-ins, adaptations, franchises. None of this is new. It might be different now but it's been around for centuries
- writing is probably the cheapest creative endeavour and maybe along with drawing the easiest to do on your own, seems to me
- but also doing writing with other people, for other people, alongside other people, is amazing
- experimenting with form should be more mainstream
- bring back proper omniscient pov. People are so scared it will be seen as head-hopping. It's an art! A beautiful thing!
- non-fiction is still telling us a story
- creating stories and sharing them with people is so innate
- might as well write something a guaranteed audience of one, me, will enjoy
- reading aloud is an undervalued skill to the point it's barely seen as a skill but it is
- no one is fact-checking your anecdotes. Don't pause the whole thing to figure out what day of the week it was or who was with you in which branch of whatever restaurant
- but more stories should be more fact-checked, it has been recently conclusively proven
- scandal sells
- there are too many types of writer's block to ever talk authoritatively about writer's block. Probably all eight billion of us have at least ten unique types each
- I blame "show don't tell." For what? For most things
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