If I keep it simplistic, I widen the audience. Hence more leadership. While deciding the writing style. One way or the other, it deviates from the original purpose of why are you writing in the first place? Is it for them or is it for you? So for all of you who are writing, creating content, it could be a book, it could be a novel, it could be on your podcast content. What is it that you keep in mind?
But if they still don't feel like they're stumbling anywhere and they're missing out, they may not get everything you want, but whatever they do get out of the book may still be something that they feel, that they got value out of it, and then they will continue reading it. Maybe they read multiple times and understand more of the nuances later. I think that's what all great literature is about
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 1:57
I think to start with, it is about writing for yourself because you are your first critique. And sometimes, you know, writing is like there are two ways of looking at it when you write a book. It is of course not just for yourself, it's for a market, right? So, I don't know if you have the luxury of only keeping your likes or dislikes in mind
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I lose out on the artistic exploration part of writing the sheer pleasure of writing something that I really love, and I end up churning out something I believe a lot of people would enjoy. But even if I did end up doing that, if I did end up writing something by putting my audience's needs about my creative ones, maybe I may get lucky and succeed, perhaps the first couple of times, make some money, get a following and all of that
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:11
Hey Arish, thanks so much for this well and response. Very insightful. And yes, I didn't intend it to be only for writers. I think I should have probably mentioned it for any creator. I understand where you're coming from and you introduce the point of simplifying for the sake of time or lack of it. I have a follow up to that given the fact that lowering attention spans, where do you draw the line?
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 2:57
I guess if I were to sum this up, whatever works is the best bet. If being organic and being niche works best for you, then that's what it is. And if that means you sacrifice a larger portion of the audience but enjoy the creative liberty, then if that's what you value more, then clearly that's the way to go. And if being popular, easily understood, more acceptable and all that matters more than clearly going the other way makes total sense
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 2:22
Well, thank you for your note. What's been very insightful. It also triggered and I kind of completely agree to what you're saying, so it also made me think on trajectory, on movies. There is a reason why mainstream movies are made the way they are. Typical masala movies, as we would call them, the pod, boiler, candy floss kind of movies. And then there are those nuanced movies which are based on reality or realism, if you will
From a creative perspective, I think that's where I agree that approach that you have to have an artist's job is to figure out what is it one building, one piece of work that you can create for a particular context, for a particular endeavor. And that is my job to figure out. So, in that case, if you're writing a piece of fiction as a creative book that you're writing, I think job is to figure out what's the best book that you can write