When the best means ordered steps.
(̶s̶o̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶i̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶?̶)̶ No, not that one. The creative industry has and will probably always go through massive upheaval. From commentary on the world’s obsession with TikTok and obsession with hating on it, with something probably on attention span.
Or just plain old escapism, into a cool breezy fantasy world with real pages you flip through using your hands, that you post onto TikTok and promote as a lifestyle (leaving out the dismissive attitude once the camera is off).
I mean bookshelves look good against a wall right? Strikingly simple, let's arrange them in nice looking ways and not the way that’s organized, the way that we would had we plans to read anytime soon.
We all dislike TikTok, read a lot as a kid and yearn to do so again (or think we do because the lifestyle looks so refined and proper).
Point being creativity is often commentary or escapism.
But why do I feel like I need to box it in?
I got to have a Plot, character, development, and rising tension. That much is evident. But what about other techniques you don’t know, or those you didn’t consider because they just didn’t pop up in your mind at the time? Let’s pre-plan a plot twist deep into my first foray into literature, woven masterfully with drips and cracks along the way that makes it seem so inevitable it would always lead to this, yet shocking nonetheless. Let’s!
If we invest so much time in a novel, of course we want it to be the best. And the best is well established, they followed these techniques and used these. Many of our favourite stories we want to emulate beat for beat, to understand what came from that deranged twisted mind of theirs to conjure up something so sinisterly breaking. To make us feel things we didn’t quite know how to put into words, they did with prose.
So we end up following, researching, and putting actual writing off. We become clinical in our creativity. But this isn’t math. To beat it over the head, creativity is subjective, and we didn’t fall in love with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky for the intricacies of foreshadowing or the masterful use of a hook that isn’t that compelling for reason, rather what we felt as a result of that behind the scenes magic.
To be the best, we have to have an understanding of art and the functionality of it. But to enjoy it? We need to unlearn how to write.
What a cool sentence to end off on, right?
