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like especially cause you’re shaping young people

and i think some authors (not everyone ofc) just write a book like its nothing… you are a writer, you in a way need to have a reason for (behind) your words. and if you just got across another enemies to lovers x grief x golden retriver black cat x slown burn story then… what im saying is that its sad that that has become a standard somehow and that some authors are starting to write a book JUST to copy someone else’s and do good and be well liked and good in the eyes of their reader

where’s the risk????

i don’t know i just sometimes feel sick with these exact same ideas and styles and sentences even :( but it is hard to write something, anything by yourself and fully so they still have my respect of course!! its weird just that everyting is the same… not just in the view of books

*everything sorry 😛

and the best thing is that they very often overshadow authors and books who hold something different (perhaps better, although im not saying that original = good ‼️) and not “safe” for publication and earning money

its just sad seeing that apparently we all like the exact same thing and that they all write something on the variation of that

I agree with you, is very sad how editors always choose the same writings, because it is safe and it sells. Is so dismissive to writers who writes not for being able to get an income but to say something that people don’t see or don’t want to see. And I think the authors we now consider as the masterful writers, didn’t write safe poetry/ literature but confronted uncomfortable truths and asked questions that mattered. And they got dismissed at first and often after their death, people started to realise the truth in their words. It always seems to go that way. And to think how many writers there was and is, who wrote in a way that may bring something unsafe, uncomfortable and hard to face, and it is very unfortunate that still they are dismissed for writing something that has not been seen before. There you can see how in many cases or almost all situations, the history repeats itself.

yes!! thank you! still i know there are and always will be some kind of rebels, loud and provocative and innovative voices, weird ideas, bad and messy and real writings, passion screaming out when clarity and the desire for succes are not. i write and have always wanted to be a published author, but im kind of okay (or trying to be) with not being read really or heard or with becoming as popular as others, one day. i think writing has always been firsty about saying it for yourself, right? getting it down on paper and seeing where you could go anyway. but still i have these thoughts that bring me down, from time to time…

thats why i have so much respect for people writing something, at any period in time, thats not expected from them. thats not traditional or whatever - safe, like we said. confrontation, you know? cliche, but you just got to stay true to yourself?

I think the idea of being published and successful in your own writing is always a beautiful thing. But in the end, when your voice carries something so rare, important and beautiful, editors, publishers don’t know how to handle it, and then you get dismissed by saying something is not only true to yourself but also to this world. And I believe that the one day will indeed come, or at least I have to believe, we have to believe that the day will come because then you don’t really see the point of your existence. But really if you think about it, what truly matters is to be utterly seen, at least by someone who believes in your work, the vision for your future, that to me matters the most. Because you can be slightly seen by others as you are well known but that doesn’t really fulfill you. So if you now think about it, what is success without true meeting? Is to say that you can be surrounded by people but unseen by everyone. You can also be admired by everyone, and still feel unmet. I think many writers struggle with that. You perhaps can blame it on your writing, yourself, this world even, not being enough. Without truly seeing what is actually missing. Once you know, I think it is even more complicated. But living itself is simple yet so hard in its simplicity.

sometimes i wish that writing doesn’t have to be a job (in order for me to be an “author”) and that books don’t have to be sold and that money (especially when it’s equaling quality) doesn’t exist. more so because it’s the most natural thing, writing, expressing yourself. like what do you mean?? idk if that makes sense…

and success is for sure just a made up thing and a silly word we defined in order to feel better about ourselves… i mean its definitely not objective

but thank you, you have an interesting point! :) 💘

i feel like you have some experience in the publishing industry?? 🤨🤭

I do have some experience in the publishing industry, nothing too much. Of course it really depends what you consider as “much”. Nevertheless, I think personally if you are true writer, you’d never consider it as a job, hobby or even a way to express yourself. One doesn’t choose to be a writer, you merely are one. So I would say that wanting to be one, writing or even getting published doesn’t necessarily make you a writer. As if to say writer writes not because is pretty, to express yourself but because it is how you function in life, it is the source of life to you, like air is. Of course this is only my view but that is how I see it. I perhaps sound too complicated to be understood, maybe I am not, though often I think, when I speak about these kinds of things, I am very clear and then someone who I was taking to, didn’t even understand a word. I think in this point is no one’s fault. Is that, some people have this inner world that is rare to be understood. But what I am now saying is that calling oneself an author, doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to be published or not published, it merely means that writing has to come naturally to you. But I am not saying this is some kind of fact, nor would I say is entirely a belief.

yea, i understand what you said, it’s kind of a way of life, like the only true thing you know, not only about yourself, but others too - the world. but i think when you start too look at it too seriously and forget to play like a kid, you know, combine words bravely, out of order or whatever, play in a sense that you don’t know what you’re doing and why exactly, the meaning behind it all could be lost. you must experiment, take risks, make mistakes (which is very hard for me, to allow myself to do haha.) there is something divine or primitive about writing, some force we cannot grasp, like something thats put in the chest and mind and fingers of every “writer”. at the end of the day, i think you need to balance between the two - your “need” for writing and your “want” for writing. you do it because you love it, so it has somewhere started as a hobby, so cherish that side of it too?

and what you said, that some people have an inner world that’s hard to understand, yeah that’s 100% sure. still, don’t you write simply because of it, for exactly that reason? C.S. Lewis said once something like that you don’t write to be understood, but to understand. everything, but most importantly yourself, i think. we actually don’t know anything about anyone, least of all about ourselves. so there’s the need.

seeing your comments, Marianna, really made me happy, made me think. thank you for reminding me of something so real about writing, i’m glad to find someone that shares my opinion. it has not died with all the old authors. wish you the best best of luck in your writing, i’m sure there will be people, your readers, that will see you. try to see you, see you through their eyes. lately i had a conversation with a friend that art in general is just a communication, so that’s what we do. thank you for communicating with me and with yourself too :) 💕 katja

Yes, you have to take risks, you must be vulnerable, that to me is the most important thing, and when you are truly vulnerable, you will indeed make mistakes, specially in writing. I always thought that perfection is impossible, in a way it might be but then again it is possible, specially in this generation. But perfection itself is boring, it lacks depth, it lacks life. And when was feelings perfect—never. People often think that having this extremely polished piece of work, then that is good. Feelings are messy, specially love, sadness, loneliness and fate. And I think what truly matters is not to write feelings that are supposed to be observed but write them in the way you feel them, let the reader live inside your emotions.

i think when it comes to originality in general, we're lacking so much, esp in mainstream art mediums tbh sometimes i wonder what everyone in 20-30 years will consider to be 'vintage', referring to post 2020 cuz everything has been so unmemorable lately😭😭

yeah, it lacks personality too if it’s perfect! that’s why i find it so hard to edit :’( changing your words from the very first time you wrote them, felt them, seems cruel to me.

i really love the last sentence you wrote!!

@staryyn!ghts LITERALLY!! i was thinking about that yesterday if i remember correctly, with music. like the way we now listen to 60s or 70s, they are gonna listen to- what?

and the good things aren’t even popular most times, so what will be left or remembered?

maybe thats just pessimistic, i dont know 🥲

odette ꩜ .ᐟ wrote: "@staryyn!ghts LITERALLY!! i was thinking about that yesterday if i remember correctly, with music. like the way we now listen to 60s or 70s, they are gonna listen to- what?"

exactly and to a part of any cultural or relevant phenomenon, you need to have 14 hour screen time and be allergic to sunlight, like you said, to find good stuff you need to go indie🥀🥀🥀plus like no wonder why everyone is obsessed with this 2016 nostalgia thingy cuz we literally have nothing going on😭😭😭

world revolution it is hahah

ngl… I blame TikTok. An influx of people getting into the genre set the bar a lot lower due to them not having much literary experience

@lee lee yes and they could get that experience if they, if we finally left that desire for reading something well known, universally liked or defined as good by our peers, people we look up too etc. like you will find your personal style and what you really like if you step away from the algorithm…

i mean for that its equally important to read both the good and the bad, worse and the worst. eventually you’ll know why you like “the best”