Post AvYSZX31Pop5yclOtc by SPQRCaesarion@poa.st
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 (DIR) Post #AvYSZX31Pop5yclOtc by SPQRCaesarion@poa.st
       2025-06-27T11:52:47.694364Z
       
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       In short, the ideas that people should "write what they know" and "write what the story you'd like" have not just become pieces of advice. They've been exaggerated to the point where those two sayings have become a replacement for actual storytelling. "Write what you know" has become "put in your beliefs," and "Write the Story you'd like" has become "Copy popular media."RT: https://poa.st/objects/529e9f90-9c7d-463a-b1f0-573a49de6269
       
 (DIR) Post #AvYSszYFfCO7sieN0a by judgedread@poa.st
       2025-06-27T11:56:23.817683Z
       
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       @SPQRCaesarion Another element is that you can't write what you know if you know nothing. Before he created Star Trek Gene Roddenberry was a pilot and a police officer. He had seen some shit. Even George Lucas was a documentary cameraman (he was at Altamont when the Hell's Angels stabbed a guy), so he'd been around. Now people who do nothing but watch movies and TV are writing movies and TV, so of course everything is a copy of a copy.