People who write "pretty" know where to draw the line too?
Most of the "pretty" writing I've seen don't overload their prose with imagery and metaphors and all the other stuff you're talking about, so I'm not really sure why you'd think the characters and the stories are drowned by it. Maybe you're just reading the wrong stuff? 'cause if that's the case, then that's just - bad writing, not "pretty" writing uhhhh.
Perhaps I take too much lit analysis classes, but for me what 'art' and 'good writing' means to me is... well, having something to say, and to say it in a way that people will be able to get your point immediately.
. . . Isn't that just a dissertation, and not literature? Because to me, 'art' and 'good writing' can't really be defined by a strict set of guidelines. It's supposed to be experimental, fluid, able to change according to the writer's whim - that's what language is. Words, sentences, phrases - haha, they're there to be manipulated, not boxed in, I think, so if you don't get the point at first reading - then maybe the author's trying to tell you something. But then again, I've never had trouble reading "pretty" writing, or maybe I'm just used to it. And again, a lot of the "pretty" writing I've read don't drown their characterization with purple prose; the characters still are pretty recognizable, and all that.
Haha, it's just. I write this way too, sometimes, and a lot of my friends do, as well, so - I get it that it's just a matter of preference, but please don't look down on it as if it's something you can't appreciate?
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Most of the "pretty" writing I've seen don't overload their prose with imagery and metaphors and all the other stuff you're talking about, so I'm not really sure why you'd think the characters and the stories are drowned by it. Maybe you're just reading the wrong stuff? 'cause if that's the case, then that's just - bad writing, not "pretty" writing uhhhh.
Perhaps I take too much lit analysis classes, but for me what 'art' and 'good writing' means to me is... well, having something to say, and to say it in a way that people will be able to get your point immediately.
. . . Isn't that just a dissertation, and not literature? Because to me, 'art' and 'good writing' can't really be defined by a strict set of guidelines. It's supposed to be experimental, fluid, able to change according to the writer's whim - that's what language is. Words, sentences, phrases - haha, they're there to be manipulated, not boxed in, I think, so if you don't get the point at first reading - then maybe the author's trying to tell you something. But then again, I've never had trouble reading "pretty" writing, or maybe I'm just used to it. And again, a lot of the "pretty" writing I've read don't drown their characterization with purple prose; the characters still are pretty recognizable, and all that.
Haha, it's just. I write this way too, sometimes, and a lot of my friends do, as well, so - I get it that it's just a matter of preference, but please don't look down on it as if it's something you can't appreciate?