Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
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Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
This means when I do things that seem audience-pleasing, it’s because I enjoy them too. I occasionally enjoy wordplay, memes, pastiche, and lyrical writing, so you readers get treated to my attempts too. Not all writerly pleasures coincide with readerly pleasures.
Venkatesh Rao • My Post-Ai Writing
The bottom line is that writing has enriched my life immeasurably, but the financial trade-off has been significant. My path has been one of compulsion, not logic.
Sometimes I write just so I don’t have to think about anything else in the world. I do it so I can be alone with myself.