Want to know how my Prof knew some of us weren’t going to make is as writers? Most girls in the class fucking LOVED Harry Potter, thought it was amazing. He all but said ‘Y’all need to read better books’. I tried reading HP for the first time recently, and cringed at the opening, the prose was so bad. It is almost criminal that JKR has made billions off of HP, but I can’t blame a woman for cashing in on an idea. I can’t help but feel like it’s Lord of the Rings a bit, as the movies did bring in a much wider audience than the books alone.
But it’s not only that they think it’s easy, they truly think that they are good at it. And from limited attempts I’ve made, I can’t think of anything harder, you need to constantly be asking why X is the way X is or why would Y do Z in moment W. Writing can be easier when you’re in a group, but still damn hard. In my school days, I’ve seen teammates get swelled heads because they added something good, to someone else’s idea, and thought they were the gift to the team. No, Person A gave us the base, you just added a wall, you were able to improve what was there, you did not come up with the entire idea.
It’s why I tacitly respect Viv and people like Thomas Austruc, they may be shitty writers, BUT they can come up with a good base. If they got someone more detailed oriented to iron out the finer details, and weren’t such huge ideologues that needed spread their shit ideas, likely these threads wouldn’t exist.
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