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2944068 No.2944068[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

How come hack writing has become so frequent nowadays?

>> No.2944075

Because the average person doesn't care for technicalities. They don't want a witty prose style with subtle metaphors, they want clichéd mary-sues, an easy to follow but gripping plot, and a happy ending.

>> No.2944077

>>2944068
when was it infrequent?

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2944078

>nowadays

>> No.2944088

Because they wouldn't understand the significance of something profound if it beat them over the head and raped their father.

It's all emotions and drama.

>> No.2944111

Do you think that the fact that everyone can now write and self publish a book on the internet has devalued literature as an art form? I never used to believe such a thing was possible but in a similar vein to the overflow of terribly amateur music published online obscuring the real gems potentially classic books are being looked over in favour of miles and miles of lines of housewives fantasy.

>> No.2944114

>>2944111
What amateur music is being celebrated that is overshadowing the "real gems"?

I think good work always rises to the top. Not necessarily financially, but as far as recognition goes.

>> No.2944116

Bad writing is at least as old as imprimery. Writing and particularly bad writing tend to mirror the linguistic habits of the community of writers and readers of the era you're writing in. Nowadays almost everyone went to highschool and most of the people who went to highschool are part of the community of readers and writers. Thus the most common form of bad writing is mindlessly replicating twenty-first century everyday language. I guess this is what one would call hack writing.

>> No.2944117

>>2944114
>What amateur music is being celebrated that is overshadowing the "real gems"?

>>>/mu/

>> No.2944120

The most popular stuff is almost always the worst stuff. Always has been as well.

>> No.2944127

>>2944114
I second you, but mind that recognition depends of the current criteria and means of recognition. Vergil was saved by middle age copyist at least in part because some of his writing were (mistakenly) interpreted as pre-christian. Quality rarely goes unnoticed, but true mastery can take time to be recognized and the more works the harder it is to find the best of them.

>> No.2944130

>>2944114
Not celebrated, just overshadowing based on the sheer magnitude

>> No.2944144

>>2944130
By that I mean, think about how many artists there are on soundcloud making bad music and think how long it would take to find a good track sifting through it.

Apply that to books, back when publishing an unknown author was a risk there was less on the shelves to pick and a higher chance of finding a good book, now there are many more people publishing anything and everything you've got a higher chance of picking up something rotten than a gem.

It's nothing to do with a decline in the quality of art, it's a rise in the availability of naff art.

>> No.2944150

it's always been this way, you are just finally old enough to take notice

>> No.2944154

>>2944144
Are you so sure? history only remembers the memorable after all.

>> No.2944159

>>2944154
That's if history can find the bloody memerable ones.

>> No.2944175

>>2944159
I can't recall any memorable books that history forgot.

>> No.2944189

women have always demanded shit literature. this is nothing new.

internet is here to remind you of everything bad in the world