#and I am very sceptical of the content-ification of fiction | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

obstinatecondolement · 1 year ago

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me: I hate how creative writing has been so coopted by the language of the rise and grind hustle culture! I hate everyone who is prescribing how to write fiction Correctly in all these fucking blogs and books and youtube channels about writing. I hate that the prevailing advice is always to be strictly formulaic and to create your work in a rote, mechanical way! I hate it and it's the fucking death of art! not everything has to be ~optimised~ and part of a fucking paint by numbers system! also me: ah, what a beautiful spreadsheet I have created to track my progress through my story's outline (which I heavily employed the story graph and save the cat methods to make), complete with if statements and conditional formatting to see if I am on track to my estimated word count goal for each individual scene and for the project as a whole every step of the way. what could be better and a more natural extension of my creative process than this?

#the thing is though #these things can be helpful tools #but they shouldn't be considered mandatory #and writing processes are highly individual #and there are so many ways to tell a story that wouldn't play nice with your story graphs and your save the catses etc.#and I don't think that a departure from convention is bad writing or bad pacing lol #it's just so one size fits all and art is Not That #and I am very sceptical of the content-ification of fiction #and this feels very that #also I am spreadsheets georg who lives in a cave and makes 10‚000 spreadsheets for fun a day #and am therefore an outlier adn should not be counted when it comes to how natural a fit spreadsheets are as a tool for creative work

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