bluestarultor on Nostr: 🧵 (3/4)<li>I feel like society at large has this idea that it's novels or nothing. ...

🧵 (3/4)<li>I feel like society at large has this idea that it's novels or nothing. We need to spread the idea that there are many forms of writing and none of them is inherently better than another. One of the biggest things my creative writing teacher said was that novelists often struggle with short stories because the requirements are simply different. And we need people to know that's okay! It's the same for writing TV and movies, or movies and games, all of which use some variant of screenplay format, much less stage plays with their own inverse of that. A good movie does not translate to TV. A good TV show doesn't make for a good movie. Frankly a stage play has more in common with live-action TV than a movie does! Games? Games are an absolute <em>bear</em> to write, from experience. They are not "low art."</li><li>We as creators need to rebel against the idea that good art requires suffering. That's just encouragement to make us suffer.</li><li>See also: "real jobs." Art is more than a hobby. Legitimize it.</li>