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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Why do so many people assume that story is always synonymous with quality?
For me, great and admirable writing frequently has nothing to do with story. I can even think of great writers who had utter contempt for the idea of a coherent story. This is not to say that readers who privilege story are wrong to do so, but only that their consensus is not necessarily truth.
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Hmm... are you a speech writer, perhaps?
I can't
conceive of anyone that I could call a hack, much less a "great writer" that would hold such an opinion. The whole point of writing anything is to communicate some coherent idea. If you consider incoherent speech, written down or otherwise, to be of value you might have a future in the "music" business, but I have no idea where you are finding these "Great Writers". Is this a New York City thing?
Luck;
Ken