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We are writing a book together: the originality of the author
If you are asked the question: what do you want more — to be considered an original, creative and original author, or to frantically gain ratings by publishing endless one-day articles, like mushrooms similar to one another and to something else growing on the Internet in huge quantities? ?
Of course, I really want to rip my vest across my chest and convince myself and others of the first option. But, just in case, little by little, you continue to pee to gain quantity and points — on this site, on social networks, and simply chewing mental gum, and not wanting to step even a little aside from the path of colorless and inexpressive authorship trodden by others and yourself .
Is it easy or difficult to write about what you want? I was recently persistently advised to return to my previously familiar coverage of the topic of relationships. Like, writing about flowers and texts is not really my thing, it’s not much, it doesn’t get enough reading, it doesn’t excite readers. But the thing is that this topic no longer excites me, and this is the main reason why I don’t write about the narcissists, psychopaths, and other rating-generating scoundrels I previously loved.
Yes, my photos are closer to me now, and yes, flowers. Leisurely walks through the garden as a resource in our troubled times. Reasoning about what is happening around. And although at first glance this is closer to journalism, everyday thoughts, actions, states — this is precisely the professional…