| Terrapin_Station |
08-10-2016 07:53 AM |
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Originally Posted by MicShazam
(Post 1727952)
The challenge is to deactivate the intellectual part of my brain when I compose, as it often gets in the way and goes "hey, you can't do that! THat's too weird!".
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I have the opposite challenge. I (still, after years of experience where I should know better) have the tendency to go, "Gah! Don't do that! It's not weird enough."
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Originally Posted by Frownland
(Post 1727961)
You're missing my larger point that judging things by the wrong criteria when analyzing can lead to people misinterpreting what makes something good because it doesn't match up with the arbitrary fixed idea of what's good or isn't. Also, I've already mentioned that it can be helpful for someone who needs to categorize everything, so you continuing to spout off your experience isn't really that relevant.
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Sounds like you're an objectivist (at least a bit)?
Re the overall discussion in the last couple pages, I'd agree that there's a different perspective once you've acclimated yourself to a genre a bit (via immersion, as well as reading about it a bit, etc.) than when you first experience it, at least in cases where it's quite unlike anything else you've experienced, but I wouldn't say that there are right or wrong criteria for judging anything, or that anything can be good aside from what people like about it (or bad aside from what they dislike about it).
"Understanding what makes something good," where the person doesn't like the thing in question, reads very funny to me to say the least. Good and bad refer to liking/disliking things, thinking that things are worthwhile for some reason or not worthwhile. They don't obtain outside of that. (Or in more common words, they're subjective, not objective.) |
