I’ve noticed my writing style has changed in the last few years in a very specific way: I seem to have unconsciously/consciously deprecated all features of writing that make it valuable to readers while focusing on those that make it more valuable to me. A more “private” style.
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Pen vs. sword is a pretty good dichotomy. I think in the current mood practicing shooting would feel more rewarding than practicing writing, as far as cultivating a public voice goes (for the record I’ve never fired a gun or been particularly attracted by the idea)
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(No objection/problems with learning gun skills, and if I had to I suppose I’d learn and get mediocre at it)
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Well return the favor if you can think of a way
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I don't know I thought usually writers go through these levels. Write for the self, then write with concern of what others think, then write for the self again (with the added experience that writing so long has given)
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Possibly and very self-flattering to think so, but I don’t think I’ve actually leveled up significantly. Just switched priorities.
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Fascinating and I feel it
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In your own writing or mine?
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FWIW, I relate to this. After 11 published books, lots of other published stuff, and the 2016 election I switched from writing back to art-making. Words seem so insufficient these days, she wrote in a tweet.
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Feels like thinking-as-a-hobby has been infected by a strain of the all-hobbies-must-be-side-hustles virus. It takes form as the idea that all thinking for fun must deal with the worlds biggest problems and outrages
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