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persephone_kore) wrote2005-03-06 12:49 am
persephone_kore) wrote2005-03-06 12:49 am
Weird...
Obviously, quality is a good thing. So is learning.
But sometimes I get the impression that extensive study of literature winds up with someone not actually having any fun reading anymore.
(This is distinct from the persistent feeling during high school English classes that people were coming up with depressing theories for the express purpose of ruining other people's enjoyment of the books, especially mine. Now I have learned that people do this for some other purpose, obscure to me, and can't see why anyone else would be affected, or would seek out other people's opinions if they were going to be. Then again I also know that I have a different definition of "pessimistic" from some people....)
And what does it mean if I still like my own stories, but don't feel I can promote them to other writers I respect because they won't suit their standards? (And I don't just mean preferred topics, or cases where we've established that we don't care for each other's work and don't generally care for each other's recommendations.)
And why does it seem to be so much easier to pick something apart than for me to defend it as being enjoyable?
I'm not good at this game....
But sometimes I get the impression that extensive study of literature winds up with someone not actually having any fun reading anymore.
(This is distinct from the persistent feeling during high school English classes that people were coming up with depressing theories for the express purpose of ruining other people's enjoyment of the books, especially mine. Now I have learned that people do this for some other purpose, obscure to me, and can't see why anyone else would be affected, or would seek out other people's opinions if they were going to be. Then again I also know that I have a different definition of "pessimistic" from some people....)
And what does it mean if I still like my own stories, but don't feel I can promote them to other writers I respect because they won't suit their standards? (And I don't just mean preferred topics, or cases where we've established that we don't care for each other's work and don't generally care for each other's recommendations.)
And why does it seem to be so much easier to pick something apart than for me to defend it as being enjoyable?
I'm not good at this game....