/lit/ - Literature

>"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. A physicist tries to make it simple; an idiot, anything the more complicated is, the more he will admire it. If you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it, he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it."

Does this apply to storytelling too? I know people will say that engineering and making software are not comparable to storytelling, but storytelling takes a scientific approach as well.

>Characters are all boring stereotypes
>Language is an abomination "My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my chair."
>His imagination is that of a librarian of the English language. Knows everything yet understands nothing.

>"Just turn off your brain and enjoy it."
>"it ain't that serious."
>"Why does it have to take itself seriously all the time."
>"Just have fun."
As a writer myself, nothing pisses me off more than these four phrases and they've lead to the death of good writing in general.

>"Just turn off your brain and enjoy it."
>"it ain't that serious."
>"Why does it have to take itself seriously all the time."
>"Just have fun."
As a writer myself, nothing pisses me off more than these four phrases and they've lead to the death of good writing in general.