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>lit plebs doesn't think that writing in a style where you make the phrases ultra charged with the most ultra packed way of figures of speech and making every sentence to be 4-5 figures of speech at the same time not a worthy form of based literature
>but my teacher told me I needed to write something concise and clear so my afroamerican friends can understand me
Stay pleb, plebs.

>> No.17280224

>>17280222
Based trips and based Ciceronian

>> No.17280230
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>>17280222
Have some feet cause ur based fren.

>> No.17280248

>>17280222
Checked and kekd

>> No.17280250

>>17280222
>lit plebs doesn't think that...not a worthy form

>> No.17280308

>>17280222
Your first greentext sentence in your OP was ultra bad with ultra cringe words like ultra and it went on for to long for a sentence at the same time I don't really know what you mean.

>> No.17280373

>>17280222
Not personally a fan of using the word ultra twice in a sentence like that, almost in a row.

>> No.17280387

>>17280222
based, based & Based.

>> No.17280432

>>17280222
>be terrible writer
>prose is turgid, purple and ungrammatical
>think writing is genius, show it to friends
>"uhm, anon, it's...interesting? maybe it's too complex for me. I don't really get what you're trying to say"
>hah, illiterate pleb, you'll never understand my genius
>show it to writing teacher
>writing teacher visibly cringes, and tries to think of a way to tell this hack he is not capable of being a great writer or stylist, that his desire to be a stylistic wizard far outstrips his ability to be one
>"anon, I can see you've got some ideas in here...and your vocabulary is...voluminous...but maybe you should try a more minimal style...it might...make your work...more approachable...after all, that's much more in vogue anyways..."
>foolish pleb teacher! he cringed at the radiance of my prose, like a man staring directly at the sun. he certainly didn't cringe because it was embarrassing for him to have to read such clunky, overwrought trash in front of its author. he's a fool who wants me to pander to fools, but I won't bite. I'll find readers who can appreciate my virtuosity!
>post a sample of my writing on /lit/
>"anon, seriously. write more simply. your grasp of the language isn't strong enough for you to try to make every sentence burst with fireworks. by continuously attempting to, you're producing bad writing"
>plebs too! plebs all! I alone am capable of seeing my greatness! the fools, they will never understand! they can't!
>as this realization dawns on me, I am filled with joy, with energy, with zeal. I begin to craft my final post for the day, articulating in my inimitable style, supercharged with figurations, saturated with subtleties, why I am write to fawn over myself, and why all my well-meaning critics are wrong
>lit plebs doesn't think that writing in a style where you make the phrases ultra charged with the most ultra packed way of figures of speech and making every sentence to be 4-5 figures of speech at the same time not a worthy form of based literature
>but my teacher told me I needed to write something concise and clear so my afroamerican friends can understand me
>Stay pleb, plebs.

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>>17280432
>he writes for the approval of some liberal lit professors who are nothing more than IRL failures
>call others plebs
ok pleb, stay pleb.

>> No.17280780

>>17280222
are you the ESL fag from a week ago? god you were bad

>> No.17280868

>>17280222
Nabe write like that, it's amusing and endearing at first, because he's a funny guy and an overly provocative one at that.
But the trick can feel void sometimes, and whenever the audience is not laughing it does not work as well.

>> No.17280872

you’re the guy that wrote the insanely convoluted dogshit sentence right? yeah, you’re trying too hard or you’re schizophrenic

>> No.17280882

>>17280432
They are all plebs though. All of their criticisms could be leveraged against some of my favorite classics. Meanwhile they don't realize that what attracts me in the first place is ornate language.

So who are you trying to attract? Plebs? Then simplify

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>>17280432
>be John Milton
>get told by my creative writing professor that my sentences are too long
>that my diction is too refined
>that I'm too hard to follow
>mfw

>> No.17281454

>>17280882
The point is that for a real literary genius, it would indeed be bad advice. But OP isn't a misunderstood genius who is better than his jealous and uncomprehending instructors. He writes terribly, as evidenced by his first post. And he likely won't improve to the point where he can get away with writing with the stylistic excesses of his daddies like Joyce or Nabokov or McCarthy. Whenever he tries to emulate that kind of writing, he will always look like a try-hard ham who spends 30 minutes laboriously cobbling together a tortured and unreadable sentence, and then another 40 flipping through the thesaurus, looking for bigger and rarer words to substitute for his original choices. OP's teachers are trying to let him down easy, saying he should simplify so that others can understand. In truth what they are saying is that he needs way more mastery of the fundamentals before he can leap into long, sprawling ornate sentences.