Comments on: My Style Addiction

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:19:45 +0000

You’re mistaking having a sense of aesthetics for being a slave to style. The reason you feel uncomfortable with this is that you’re an American and for the last forty years Americans have been working on making everything in their world ugly and vulgar. How else can you explain the popularity of hideous,garish tattoos which has enslaved the people of America. Not just young people, mind you! Men and women in their 50s and 60s are insisting on having barbed wire tattooed onto their biceps. I have a long winded explanation for this-I believe that the forced “democratization” of WWII-the first time since the Civil War when a large proportion of the male population spent time in the military-had a profound influence on how those men and their descendants looked at the world,asthetically. You’ll notice there’s been no “art for art’s sake” type movements since then. Anyway,don’t apologize for wanting things to be attractive. It’s just proof that our culture’s hatred of beauty and style hasn’t poisoned your soul yet.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:35:42 +0000

I don’t think it is too much of a bad thing is you are obsessed with style. Maybe you just need to rethink the order you work in. For example,

1) Write/type all of your content (incl footnotes etc…)
2) Then apply a suitable style

At least this way you will not be in a situation where ‘styling’ becomes time consuming, which leaves you unable to produce the very best content. By producing content first, at least you have everything necessary to get the best possible response. The afterward ‘styling’ just appeases our desire to be ‘perfect’.

By: jc

jc — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:17:03 +0000

I love the look of your website.

And the words, too.

By: Dinberu Melese

Dinberu Melese — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:16:15 +0000

hye there,

I agree with you – it is a terrible addiction which is difficult to break or control. A misplaced comma in any piece of writing can deny me my sleep. But a good writer must first bother about what he says, rather than how he says it. Whether it is possible to break this destructive habit? I have no idea. Maybe it has something to do with self-esteem, or what you think about yourself as a writer. I hope I will one day arrive at a point, where I wouldn’t give a damn about the style and just write what comes to my mind. If the style turns off the people who read my work, then they can go to hell. I know by then that I am good anyway…

Just exposing those freaky thoughts to a fellow writer…:)

Wish you luck.

greetings,

Aleph