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Mar 22, 2018 at 14:03 | comment | added | Kirk | Writing is a practice. There are many tools and a common language. While every story is different, it is not something that defies understanding. There are things that make literature work, there are tools. And so while there may be room to pick the correct tool for a problem, there usually is still a set of formal devices that will help with any problem. People answering questions should be able to explain those tools with the elegance that befits an SE dedicated to the expression of thought using the written word, and an expert understanding of those tools. | |
Mar 22, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | user16226 | That is more down to the subject matter than the community. Stories are how we deal with all the things in life that we can't define in data tables and algorithms, and the creation of stories is one of the things that falls largely in that category. That is, it is not reducible to data tables and algorithms by any method yet discovered. You can certainly question if a subject like this fits the SE format, but while expertise is genuinely thin on the ground here, it is the nature of the subject, not the qualifications of the community that is fundamentally to blame. | |
Mar 20, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | Kirk | I do not want to get into an argument; but a quality answer on a site in the style of stack-overflow should read more like a formal definition or how-to manual than an anecdotal account. Which is not to say that those anecdotal accounts do not have value. However, it does reinforce the view that expertise on this site, where it exists, is not always well expressed; and that in turn can lead to distrust of the site as a resource. It is usually worse when someone thinks they are right, but is ignorant of the ways in which they are wrong and it is harder then to discern between opinion and fact. | |
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:58 | comment | added | user16226 | There are clearly several of us here who earn our living writing. Thought I see no evidence that that includes people who earn it with fiction. But what I do see here is widespread ignorance of the fact that there is a substantial body of knowledge about what does and does not work in writing and so people commonly regard both questions and answers as opinion when there is actually considerable knowledge available on the subject. To the uninformed, everything looks like an opinion. | |
Mar 6, 2018 at 16:13 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | @Kirk FWIW - I believe most of the top-ranked posters here have done at least some professional writing of one sort or another. | |
Mar 4, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | Kirk | Spidysense. I don't know. And I guess now that technical writing is here I'm partially wrong. | |
Mar 4, 2018 at 10:39 | history | edited | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Mar 4, 2018 at 2:44 | comment | added | Thunderforge | How do you know the site is lacking professionals who write for a living? Most users don't identify one way or another what they do. | |
Mar 4, 2018 at 1:43 | history | answered | Kirk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |