the bells of Notre Dame
my roaring cascades have not returned and i cannot write for the life of me. i read what it is others write on sites like fanfiction.net and fiction press and i am disgusted. disgusted that people should write such things with self-satisfaction as if they were bestowing upon the literary world something that has never been seen before.
angst.
please inform them that such a thing as angst comes and goes as it pleases and will not serve as sufficient enough inspiration for an aspiring writer. and the stories that come from it are completely idiotic!
knowledge.
though, i grant you, it is something we cannot live without and something i value very highly, one cannot assume that knowledge of how to write makes one a writer. very few subjects can be taught in a book by design and the craft of writing is still not, and will never be, one of them. authors who fancy that they can learn how to write by reading the right books and getting advice from the right people, are sorely mistaken. i have read what it is they write as well and though others deem the work well-enough and many of these authors' books have been listed as best-sellers, i cannot agree with the way they treat the craft. as if it can be taught and learned like a subject rather than an art. art can be taught, i grant you, but intuition, experience, beauty, and heart for heaven's sake are also part of the process! don't treat writing a book like completing some kind of form. archetype, check, plot, check, conflict, check, suspense, check, bloody resolution, check. and it angers me that they're work should be admired so.
imitation.
and for goodness sake, use your own bloody ideas!! i understand getting ideas from the great authors like Tolkein, and Lewis, and Cooper, but don't use what they have created in your own book! originality! value that more than the rising action of a certain plot!
maybe i am only so sore because...because i want so badly to write something worth reading and here are other authors who read about the craft of writing in a book and decide to write a book with little substance just to try it and they are praised for it!! people who write on a whim with very little appreciation for books at all!! and what comes from these people's endeavors are shallow books that become beloved for some reason in the cosmos while others who would wish to have as much success with a meaningful book are left with little hope.
ruddy, ruddy, ruddy. i am in a mood.
