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detectivenyx · 1 year ago

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the 19th century: our publishing houses have so much work to do! A whole 4,500 books were submitted for publishing this year :( the invention of mass production makes things so hard.

modern publishing houses: hooh, slow day today. we've only got 6000 books to decide on the yay or nay to go to publish. better still keep an eye on the 2700 self-published novels though

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

#not to mention all the 'modern writing advice' is taken from like. youtubers on tier with fucking lily orchard #none of it exists in actual creative writing classes. literally none of it.#the classic literature first bit is also literally the beginning of danganronpa right down to 10 'pages' of where makoto met the bastards #which was published in 2010 #joker was about a guy progressively becoming Worse #a film from 2019 #the thing was watching awful bastards fuck things up but still act as logically as they could under the circumstances #a film released in the late 20th century #and i recently spoke to an author who is a well known aussie crime author who graduated from my uni #and her novels are Look At These Bastards #almost like if you extend your knowledge of writing criticism beyond #'unmarried/divorced youtuber in their 30s whose entire frame of writing reference is children's media from their era or this one'#you quickly get writing advice that is actually useful and you get some disinfectant for the brain rot #shit like shit published in the 19th century is still going!#but additionally you have to take into account that there is far more accessibility to way more media!#we're literally drowning in Content and have to spend our time wisely now #ultimately: don't write to a fucking formula. just figure out why you're using certain writing conventions and what purpose they serve.

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