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It takes creativity. It is the act of putting something on paper, that when others see it, a unique picture is drawn in their mind. All guided by the author. I definitely call that an art.
Wait, there are poeple who don’t think writing is a form of art??
The post was practically perfect in every way, and then somebody went and added Julie Andrews, thus shooting it into the realm of utter and absolute perfection.
And it isn’t just as simple as ‘putting an image into text form’. You can look at an image and just tell a person what’s there - ‘Susan looked at the fluffy dog’, it just tells you what’s happening. And sometimes that’s all that’s needed.
But art is turning that into something that can make people feel, that they know what Susan is like emotionally when she sees this dog - if she loves it or if she’s afraid of dogs - and it tells you what kind of dog, and how soft the fur is, and the feeling of safety or danger Susan gets when she looks at said dog.
It’s choosing the right words, because you’ve used that word already a few times in the past paragraphs, so something else would work better. It’s knowing when to use ‘(Name) did this’ again and when to describe the action in another way, not because it’s the second time you’ve used it, but because it’s easy to see by skimming the page, and the ‘image’ of the words on the page makes it obvious.
It’s knowing when to break apart the paragraphs so that people who are put off by a wall of text aren’t scared by it, and feel that it’s surmountable to read. It’s dividing things so that there’s a flow, as well. It’s making it so that you can see a person’s thoughts, how quickly they come and how detailed they are, how calm or panicked or emotional, just by looking at a page.
It’s knowing the way a character thinks, and getting inside their head, so well that you can get other people inside their head, so that other people can feel the same way as this character that they may even have never heard of before.
Writing, no matter what kind it is, makes people think. It makes people look at themselves, and think ‘is this something I’d do? What would I do in this situation? It makes people feel. It makes you go through things with these characters that you will never be able to go through in real life.
A writer chooses words in the same way that an artist chooses their paintbrushes.
