>>/7337/
> and what happens if those feelings translated on the story are imprecise or pretended?

They look imprecise and/or pretended.

> while writing about personal matters in a creative work, the writer/artist can shape or twist them

What I've seen, mostly, is that the more they try to hide / lie / twist their presentation, the more they present themselves openly.

Do you remember one of the things I said about NaNoWriMo? It's like writing about dreams -- it exposes your subconscious, which is unfamiliar with/bad-at lying.

> "In order to write about unicorns, I must feel and experience the life of a unicorn beforehand"

Not disagreeing. Or at least, the unicorns in the audience would know you're faking it.

>  >Consumption is different than creating is what I would say.
> agreed with that statement

you ... know you're effectively agreeing with me here, right?

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> woah, 80s synthpop, folks!
Have you checked out the rest of his album? Homage to the '80s all the way through. Wow & Flutter and I don't even need to have meant the pegasus though I'm sure she's in there somewhere.

What's the opposite of disappoint? Pride?
< I am pride.

Have I ... mentioned my age? Being 45 might affect this conversation. Maybe it's just the impetuousness of youth that insists the art and the artist can be taken separately. Or maybe that was a postmodernism that I never actually ascribed to.

Whatever. Peace, and enjoy your weekend.
I want to buy a motorcycle to enjoy my weekends with.
//midlife crisis, much?