a rant to robert cohen
Oct. 31st, 2008 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardThe author of my theatre book has reached whole new levels of FAIL. Now he's talking about playwrights.
Don't you fucking dare call literature just an "arrangement of words", you bastard. Damn straight writing plays is different from writing novels or poems, but that doesn't make it any better or worse, just different. Don't martyr yourself because you have to write for people. Don't pride yourself on saying that a play is so much more work than a novel, or a short story, or a poem, because it's not complete until all the pieces -- the actors, the setting, the music, the costumes, the director -- are all put together, because the novelist and the poet and the short story writer will all laugh in your face. It all takes different skills, you pretentious bastard. Just fucking stop comparing them, because all you're doing is making yourself look like an idiot. SERIOUSLY NOW.
Don't you fucking dare call literature just an "arrangement of words", you bastard. Damn straight writing plays is different from writing novels or poems, but that doesn't make it any better or worse, just different. Don't martyr yourself because you have to write for people. Don't pride yourself on saying that a play is so much more work than a novel, or a short story, or a poem, because it's not complete until all the pieces -- the actors, the setting, the music, the costumes, the director -- are all put together, because the novelist and the poet and the short story writer will all laugh in your face. It all takes different skills, you pretentious bastard. Just fucking stop comparing them, because all you're doing is making yourself look like an idiot. SERIOUSLY NOW.