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Post by Arctura on Feb 10, 2014 0:13:44 GMT
Okay, so epiphany time. I was planning out what I was going to do for sketchbook assignments this quarter and I was thinking about exploring not only different media/mediums and subject matter, but also styles. I instantly thought of 1960's minimalism, and then bam.
Minimalism refers to, essentially, conservation in the arts. So why wouldn't this apply to literature? I looked it up and there's something called literary minimalism. AND OMG SLEEVES I FOUND OUT WHAT HEMINGWAY STARTED. Whenever I talk about simple, straight to the point writing, I either bring up Douglas Adams or Ernest Hemingway. Dude, I finally know what his style is: minimalism. I dunno why this is so important me, but yeah.
And maybe this means that Dickens pioneered the opposite, which is what some call "maximalism". Guy's the freaking quintessence of it. |
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Post by Arctura on Feb 10, 2014 0:16:01 GMT
I know that there are shades of grey, but what do you guys typically lean towards? Minimalism or maximalism? (I know the latter isn't an official word but roll with it.) I think it's obvious which one I'm more associated with.  |
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Post by Sleeves on Feb 10, 2014 0:33:24 GMT
dude do you even need to ask i mean have you ever read my writing of course it's minimalism
But if I'm being honest, I can be as wordy as the next writer. But not in my regular, narrative prose. Like, if I ever wrote a novel, it would be written more like "Odds and Ends." But sometimes, as I'm sure you've noticed, I become possessed by the pompous poetic writing gods and spit out something like "The Inhuman Condition." I'm like, bipolar with my writing.
It's a condition.
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Post by Sleeves on Feb 10, 2014 0:33:41 GMT
Interesting question though.
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Post by Arctura on Feb 10, 2014 0:43:43 GMT
Thank you. Although I love language, I am a tad bit ashamed of my wordiness, only because society frowns upon it- save the choice literary fanatics. Just yesterday I asked you about if the 'attention-grabber' or 'hook' could be a paragraph in itself. Lol even Ms. Kump, when I asked about it on Edmodo, told me that she is trying to teach brevity but that it was okay in the outline.
Yup, I'm kind of hot and cold as well. Since I'm still experimenting, I write a variety of stuff. I think I may be the opposite...like my poetry recently is more haikus (taking a break from lengthy freeverse), and my prose has and always will be 'maximalist'. Hehe.
I don't think any teacher will ever deter me from writing as I please (non-academically).
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Post by Arctura on Feb 10, 2014 0:46:24 GMT
I just thought of something. How cool would it be if artists and writers took a break from their typical style and tried something...different? Like if Hemingway and Woolf wrote superfluously and Dickens and Joyce wrote concisely. Or if Andy Warhol attempted traditional art and materials. Or if Picasso and Matisse were Impressionists for a day. That's what I call exploration.
*mind blown*
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Post by Arctura on Feb 10, 2014 0:49:00 GMT
I'm pretty sure this counts as the apocalypse.
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Post by Sleeves on Feb 10, 2014 1:09:47 GMT
I have successfully stopped my head from exploding.
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