I think it's awful that others don't understand crap-speak. ... (And sometimes, I still think that reading is a religious experience ^.^)
I think the two go hand-in-hand. If you have no interest in writing -- and on LJ and increasingly in the blogsphere, that seems rare -- you care about reading, and sometimes the words on the page are almost mystical in their import and in what they evoke. The idea that the person who could write something that could move you so much was not, somehow, in utter and completely control, is jarring.
I think if you're involved in any creative endeavour, there's a greater chance that you've gone through the "this is all garbage" and come out the other side. But it's coming out the other side that makes the process transparent. I think.
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Date: 2008-04-11 01:35 am (UTC)(And sometimes, I still think that reading is a religious experience ^.^)
I think the two go hand-in-hand. If you have no interest in writing -- and on LJ and increasingly in the blogsphere, that seems rare -- you care about reading, and sometimes the words on the page are almost mystical in their import and in what they evoke. The idea that the person who could write something that could move you so much was not, somehow, in utter and completely control, is jarring.
I think if you're involved in any creative endeavour, there's a greater chance that you've gone through the "this is all garbage" and come out the other side. But it's coming out the other side that makes the process transparent. I think.