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trying to write things of the sort you enjoy reading yourself is a bit like trying to do a magic trick on yourself or tickle yourself... kinda doesn't work when you're the one backstage rather than in the audience
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like if you enjoy murder mysteries but you've run out of books by your favorite writer, you can't really fix the problem by writing more mysteries in their style yourself even if you have the skill... you'd know the murderer so it would be spoiled for you
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so if you want to get the same pleasure you get from reading a murder mystery by writing something, it would have to be some *other* sort of writing with a reveal at the end that you can only guess at while writing... something like that
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so like maybe, if you want to get murder mystery pleasure out of a book you write, that book has to be something like a dictionary or an ikea instruction manual (I don't mean specifically those, but an arbitrary thing that feels like a murder mystery from backstage)
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pantsers may enjoy more reading/writing symmetry than plotters, perhaps this is why I blog rather than book... blogging is close to writing-like-reading
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interesting, yeah... I think pantsers can definitely have more reader-like fun while writing, but certain kinds of writing, like murder mysteries, kinda require you to know the ending early even if you're pantsing the writing and winging the details of the plot as you write
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definition -- symmetric writing is writing that gives the same pleasure to the writer as the reader asymmetric writing provides different pleasures for eg murder mysteries provide intricate puzzle construction pleasure to writer but surprise to reader