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Why are fucking readers so fucking fickle? When I write simply, they fucking accuse me of telling rather than showing. When I do "show, don't tell", they fucking complain of purple prose. When I start writing simply again, they start complaining that I'm writing brown prose.

Fuck this bullshit, readers should be sent to a goddamn gulag and be repeatedly hit with rifle butts until they learn to appreciate my work.

Don't give me "balance" and "moderation" bullshit, what the fuck do they want? Do they want vivid, beautiful worlds or a thrilling, "zippy" experience?

On average, do readers prefer purple prose or telling?

Fucking reader-niggers.
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>>7643660
sounds like you're just shit
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>>7643660
FYI anyone who brings up the concept of "showing & telling" is a pleb.
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>>7643660
MAYBE YOU ARE JUST AN AWFUL WRITER, ALL SIGNS POINT TO THIS

POST YOUR WORK AND LET US DECIDE

OR GTFO
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>>7643671
>uses the word 'pleb'

pleb
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>>7643671
Gertrude Stein's version of this was 'make it plain,' and that makes way more sense to me
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>>7643812
We need to combat the evil show don't tellers! COMRADES, ARE YOU WITH ME?
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>>7643660
>writing to please others

absolutely unaesthetic
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