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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted N'jaila Rhee

      I mean unless you're writing an operator's manual for a forklift or something, *nothing* you're writing is actually "necessary"https://twitter.com/BlasianBytch/status/1328248183168901120?s=20 …

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      N'jaila Rhee @BlasianBytch
      When you think you're being profound but really showing sex negativity, dismissing erotic literature and devaluing sexuality. I guess Toni Morrison should have scrapped Song of Solomon lol. https://twitter.com/lilian_orchard/status/1328245217858891777 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020

      Lol the "efficiency" discourse from writing classes has really done a number on people's psyches hasn't it It is necessary for me to enjoy writing the thing and people to enjoy reading it If you take away something that people enjoy, you have removed something necessary

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    3. Beta‏ @BetaDecayPlus 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I write nothing but "necessary" things these days (technical writer) and it's I think it's better suited for me than a creative writer. A diversion in tech writing might obscure an important fact, whereas the "unnecessary" parts of a book are often my favourites.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    4. Beta‏ @BetaDecayPlus 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect

      Any Discworld story could be told without the little asides on things like The Muntab Question or spending a few pages inventing magic quantum mechanics but those parts are great and I love Pondrer Stibbons.

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @BetaDecayPlus

      The thing about the wildly oversimplified advice about efficiency is is that people don't really consider that everything you put in a book *does something* It's an open question if it does it well, or if there's another way to do it better, sure, but it all does something

      1 reply 4 retweets 28 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      We all know that there's no such thing as "small talk" really The difference between a close friend and a passing acquaintance is the small talk There may be a handful of important, intimate conversations but those could only happen as a result of hours and hours of small talk

      2 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Everything a writer writes is a little bit of characterization, a little bit of info about what kind of person you're talking to and what kind of world they're drawing you into The overall effect of a book is ultimately shaped by every page you sat through

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

          A lot of people who want every writer to be Hemingway don't seem to fully get this Terry Pratchett and David Foster Wallace both used footnotes and digressions for very different purposes but neither Discworld nor Infinite just would be the same if you chopped all that out

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

          Not just that "the story wouldn't be as fun or as interesting", it literally WOULD NOT BE THE SAME STORY Every digression is a set of brushstrokes in the painting just as much as any of the "major plot points" are

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        2. Beta‏ @BetaDecayPlus 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I wonder what they'd think of The Princess Bride then. There's a book that by the Kill Your Darlings standards is indulgent as all hell. It has long passages where the story switches perspective just to talk about some section of the book the authour isn't including.

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        3. Beta‏ @BetaDecayPlus 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect

          It's a book whose main charm is a series of strictly unnecessary comments on stuff that is explicitly said by the writer to be unimportant.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
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