tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post8862874356133458392..comments2023-03-26T08:22:49.965-05:00Comments on Never cry over spilled guts: right-thinking individualsFiat Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-20151732957459345032010-05-07T22:23:33.391-05:002010-05-07T22:23:33.391-05:00:-p Perhaps Dave's original eloquence was mute...:-p Perhaps Dave's original eloquence was muted by my imperfect memory of the phone convo. Quotation from other than text is such an inexact art!<br /><br />As for the remainder of your comment, yes! exactly! You have clearly (and recently, by your blog posts of late) been giving the matter serious and accurate thought. Also, the way you made the point is so far superior to the way I attempted to make the point above that it is my intention to let the matter rest. Otherwise I would simply be continuing to agree with something you already said better.<br /><br />Though I will add that the last thing you said--that the catharsis embodied by the created work should at least point in the direction of a substantive improvement--was what pushed me into making the next post I made. Shallow yet enjoyable pop songs differ from nails-on-a-chalkboard terrible songs by exactly the abovementioned margin.Fiat Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-15158959300163233962010-05-02T14:48:52.872-05:002010-05-02T14:48:52.872-05:00You don't have to be suffering or depressed &q...<i>You don't have to be suffering or depressed "right now" in order to be inspired. But you have to have had the experience, in order to contrast it with whatever you're writing, in order to have a wide enough perspective to write well.</i><br /><br />That Dave...so eloquent.<br /><br />My theory is that the greatest ideas come out of suffering and heartbreak, but the greatest art comes from resolving the heartbreak. The memory of pain creates the tension and conflict of the story. But it's the wholeness that comes from passing through the suffering that offers the necessary perspective on the story.<br /><br />Wallowing doesn't get anyone anywhere. All you get is that terrible, stereotypical high school goth poetry about how everything is darkness. What people are looking for is the catharsis. So if you can't say, "All these terrible things happened, but look how it turned out in the end," you're not doing a very good job of things as an artist.<br /><br />But that's just my humble opinion...Gedshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15047239425466517786noreply@blogger.com