Category: Advice
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Is There Such a Thing as “Good Art”?
Whether you’re a writer, painter, architect, actor, or any other kind of artist, you’re going to encounter people discussing good vs. bad art. People constantly argue over styles or what techniques work best. In college classes, they teach the proper methods for producing art and highlight some of the “great works.” But here’s the thing:…
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Discipline: The Necessary Evil of Writing
Update : Added image. Updated formatting to current blog standards. Couldn’t get the review I was working on done in time this week, so unfortunately, this’ll need to be a quickie. I think I, along with all other writers, start with this false idea of what a career in writing will entail. We have this…
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What is an Antihero?
Update : Extra History was once a game development/writing-centric YouTube channel known as Extra Credits. My understanding of the change, while limited, is that the primary content creators and writers left the channel some time ago. While the content of their more recent videos has come under fire from some circles, their old Extra Credits…
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The English Language Needs a Bigger Dictionary
Update : Corrected minor grammatical errors. Updated formatting to current blog standards. We need more words in English. This probably seems like a stupid thing to argue for when the Oxford Dictionary says that the English language has something like 250,000 words as it is, but bear with me a moment. The fact is that…