#i've always gotten the impression that the technicality of visual art is far more developed than the technicality of written art

[venus-is-in-bloom]

i'm reading some writing i really admire and it just kind of reminds me of how much difficulty i've had finding courses and theories and tutorials on how to write good prose, especially fictional prose... it's obvious there's a technical side to it, beyond simply doing "what you feel is right", but the depth of it is hardly ever discussed, and what ideas there are (avoiding 'said', trimming unnecessary adjectives) are broad, vague, and often get applied without the nuance of an underlying theory, resulting in a series of unhelpful prescriptions that do little to actually illuminate the writing process. not only that, the majority of "writing tips" don't seem apply to prose specifically but to storytelling in general, making the amount of accessible information on the former even slighter than it at first appears.

#things venus said #it's probably partly due to the circles i'm in but like... #i've always gotten the impression that the technicality of visual art is far more developed than the technicality of written art #or at least that that development is more accessible to the public #and more commonly known among practitioners