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Originally Posted by DamageX
HAPPY artists are generally crap. I used to be miserable and I wrote a lot, about ten years ago. Anyone who read anything written by me would go WOW! One day I woke up and I refused to be miserable. My wife had contributed to that. So I stopped writing. When you're happy you have other stuff to do, than write crap.
Writing when miserable is nothing but a form of self-pity and an attempt to get others to pity you as well, but on a more artistic level. You're not just a fucking moron who can't get shit right, you're a tortured soul who writes beautiful combinations of words. Humans are emotion junkies, so they read that shit. I, for one, would rather read a step-by-step get-rich-quick scheme, than poetry. At least I'd learn *something* from that, not just waste my time feeling pity for yet another moron who has nothing better to do with his/her time.
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While I agree with the first part of your post, (it IS much easier to write...or to express emotions when you are depressed)...I have to dissagree with the ending... Reading, for me, should really not be considered only as a learning tool! Sure! If I come upon a good ebook or an interesting marketting article etc, I will read it! But it has nothing to do with reading poetry or fiction, which is, in my opinion, just as important, even though it doesnt serve the same purpose!...
I read articles etc. to be informed, I read poetry or fiction to be entertained, and they are both important to me...