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    1. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      But Bob Ross was talking one time, while he was painting, about how sometimes he'll paint something, and no matter where the trees end up, someone will see it and say, "I know that spot. I've been there."

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    2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      And it might not look like the spot that Bob Ross had in mind when he started, but it'll look like a spot, to someone.

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    3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      And to me, that speaks to one of the hardest things as a writer, which is letting go of the idea that you can put a perfect image in someone's head, as it exists in yours.

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    4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      When you're a reader, you read a book and it can be so vivid, so vibrant, and so detailed. You see the faces. You see the places. You see a thousand, tiny, shining details in your head as clear as day.

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    5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      And then you become a writer, and you want to do that for others. You want to give them the same level of vivid detail you were given, when you were a reader. You want to take the image that's in your head and put it into the reader's.

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    6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      And so you try really hard to get it right. You want to describe everything in such exacting detail that the audience can see it. Every detail of every awesome move in every awesome fight scene. Every aspect of the setting. Every face of every character.

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      You know it can be done, because you've seen it! You've experienced it! All your favorite authors did this amazing thing! So you try to do it, too. And it doesn't go so well. Your descriptions... drag. Every page is an infodump. Every detail you include seems to obscure another.

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    8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      And worst of all, if you have test readers and you pick their brains, you realize it's not even working. They're not getting the picture. Not the right picture. They might think the view is amazing and the characters look awesome but they're seeing them *wrong*.

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      And you think to yourself: how can it be that every author I've ever read has managed to do this one thing better than me, this one thing that I can't do at all?

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    10. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 20 Feb 2018
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      Now, Bob Ross is a visual artist, so everybody who looks at his pictures is seeing the same thing, subject to the vagaries of human perception. But what they're not seeing is the picture that was in his mind when he created it.

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      Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest 20 Feb 2018
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      On some level I really agree with this, on the other I can't stop thinking that most art doesn't give a toss if the "human face" I/they draw/drew looks "right". ☺️

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        1. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest 20 Feb 2018
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          I'm thinking here of e.g., Cubism.

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