things don't always need to be perfect - in fact, the little messedup things are sometimes more interesting than the big, Perfect things. You know?
When in doubt, change the punctuation to fit your interpretation. even the writer might find your new way more interesting than his old (perfect) way.
But not always. it's a fine practice, the art of learning when to change the marks. You have to feel it out.. kind of like everything in life. Feel it out, see what works. There's the times you buck the system, then the others when you follow to the T and step perfectly in line.
But what's best is if you can master the both ways. I think the truest art, the most interesting (and sellable) satisfying thing is a combination of the perfect and the personally askewed. You take something beautiful, shake it up then make it beautiful again.
Depends on what you're given, and how long you've been holding it; how long people trust it in your hands. Beauty can stagnate. But breaking something new never really works either. People understand, inherently, the balance in all of this. If we look while we write, we must look with focus then back up with peripherals, then center in and focus again. But allowing peripherals to laugh it off, and let another change work its way.
So that in the end you can stand 5 inches, 5 feet, fifty feet away and still feel the same thing about what you've just made. The laugh doesn't change, no matter your distance.
That's universal my friends. That's the stuff that lasts. That's what we're goin for here.. isn't it?
Isn't it.
1 comment:
yeah, you have to thoroughly know what you're getting into before you can start messing with it. a lot of people miss that part, and then it just sucks. i like your idea though, and totally agree.
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