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Katanyae · **09-30-2013, 10:59 PM**

(09-30-2013, 09:36 PM)X Wrote:
(09-30-2013, 09:09 PM)Katanyae Wrote: And isn't one of the best way to improve something doing it repeatedly with a good cross section of test subjects?

I believe that's the infamously quoted definition of insanity.

Doing something over and over doesn't automatically make you better at something. Doing something, realizing what is not working, and changing it to get a different result is how you get better.

Everyone should always strive to be better, and everyone can always be better, it's true. No one is on the top because there's no ceiling with art. It's not a mountain with a summit that we race to plant our flag in. It's more like a wall stretching up to the heavens. Over time many have scaled the wall, and they've left footholds behind for others just beginning their journey to hoist themselves up on. And the people familiar with these holds tell tales about them to the up an comers. They point to the signs to lessen the burdens of their next journey, so that they may climb even higher.

There's not a 'right' way with art, because it is subjective. But there is a way it has been done before. It's a path that is worn and marked and others may find their way more easily upon it. It is simpler to follow a trail than blaze one. And it's certainly simpler to blaze a trail when you are at the very least armed with the knowledge of former pathfinders.

Being resentful of experience just leads to perpetuating a culture of willful ignorance where no one gets any better because 'I am doing it my way and you can't tell me different'. Instead of everyone improving, it just lowers the bar to accommodate the unwilling. At that point we're sitting at the bottom of the metaphorical rock wall rolling around in our own excrement.

I guess what I should have said then was "Pratice makes perfect", had the same meaning and avoided your post. Granted I would have been cliche, but I've been known to do that from time to time.

Within your post I found ideas that I 100% believe in....but the context is where I will disagree. For example, the last paragraph. Yup, 100%. However when that 'experience' comes in the form of cliqueish holier than thou 'you-aren't-worthy-to-rp-licking-my-boots asshatery...THEN it's negative...and THAT is what my post was actually about.

You're Not Writing A Novel

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