/lit/ - Literature

>Quiet as kept

I'm partial to this one myself

Generally, yes. But do what you want.

Applied best to the visual arts.

>>6820258
Really? Go watch Paris, Texas.

As long as you're not being redundant.

>>6820155
It's pretty dumb and usually the people who use it don't know what they mean by it. They seem to think it means don't be descriptive, and if you have to describe something do it though labored analogy.

It was meant to champion the break of the novel from journalistic (ie Dickens, or Melville, or Shelly, or even people like James) patterns of fact-relaying to more impressionistic ways of writing where the author presented experiences before the reader decontextualized.

The phrase is antiquated, it should be something like "create something witnessable, don't report what your narrator witnessed,"