Don't listen to them. Sure it's "just words" to some people, but it's up to us to give importance and significance to those words. You are a great writer, and don't let anyone tell you different.

Sorry I missed you at AC.

What's wrong with words? Words are pretty powerful.

You seem pretty cool, I shall bother you next year maybe?

And I was just feeling meh and then someone said that to me and it felt like the light bulbs in my head were all shattered with the subtlety of a baseball bat.

Couldn't you apply that to anything?

Music sucks. Y'know why? Cause no matter what anyone does or how good they get or how fantastical their style becomes, it will -always- just be sound.

Don't let this discourage you. There is a massive difference between good and bad writing. Compare a Kurt Vonnegut novel to a J.K. Rowling novel. Brave New World to Twilight. There is no comparison. Vonnegut's and Huxley's words mean so much more and carry a greater weight.

I just want to second this.... and let's be honest, in the end, the written word tends to have much more impact than the visual arts.

J.K. Rowling's not as bad as Stephanie Meyer, man. X3;;

She is when you compare her to the likes of Orwell and Harper Lee.

Anyone's bad when you compare them to George Orwell.

Kurt Vonnegut is essentially dog shit in a bag when you compare him to Shakespeare. :V

I like Vonnegut because he says so much with so few words. It takes a fucking year for Shakespeare to say anything of meaning.

Unfortunately in the furry community, many things are undervalued. People will take a huge con over a smaller, personal con. They will take an expensive fursuit over a unique or creative one. And they almost always value art over "just words." Just remember - The Declaration of Independence, The Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King Jr's "Dream" speech are just words too. But never, NEVER, let anyone tell you words do not have value.

I think that unless Jizzal gets into politics that his words will lack the particular impact of those speeches, documents and such. That isn't to say that his words are entirely without power, but it requires the audiance to suspend their disbelief, use their imagination to really engage with the story. Hamlet, the Odyssey, Lord of the Rings and more for my own preference the A Song of Ice and Fire series, they all tell, to varying degrees, fantastical tales of worlds unlike our own yet with characters.... people that are. Frodo may be no human but his actions, feelings and such certainly are and through this powerful human tales can be made. Pictures, no matter the detail and effort put in cannot tell such tales with near the efficiency of text, they can capture a moment and are very good at filling that moment with more detail then text can easily offer but struggles to imply what the previous moment was like or give the full weight to the meaning and motivations of that moment. Text is powerful to those willing to spend the time and effort to read through it, images are easier to appreciate and there will always be those who prefer such out of sheer lazyness.

What a foolish thing to spout my friend. Especially from you, you who has JUSTICE.

To me, writing will always be better...because with writing you can always be more detailed that artwork. It's like you write the picture in people's minds.


Think of great works like the LOR series or RA Salvatore's books.


Also AC was fun<3

yeeeah, what people before me have said!

a picture, no matter how awesome and fantastical it is, is just one picture portraying just that image. you can speculate there is more, you can imagine there's a meaning to every detail, but you don't know.

With writing, the details are there. The atmosphere, the thoughts, the feelings, the affection, the terror, the environment, everything. and it can put a person there. It's hard for a picture to do all that.

Of course, we're both in the wrong fandom if we're looking for people, en masse to take our words with great distinction. ;.; freaking derps with their instant gratification and murrypurryfilth...

There's nothing mere about words. Like any other form expression, words have the power to influence people. Like any other art form, the masterful use of words is not easily attained.

*huggles*

If it weren't for words, where would we be? Communication is essential, and the right words in the right order can do great things.

Hey, try throwing some multimedia in there if it makes you feel better (it might, who knows)

At the very least, words describe scenes in motion, rather than how a picture is forced to be nothing but a single shot, frozen in place.

You know what else was 'just words'? The Magna Carta! andallthesupercooldocumentsthatfollwed. Ohhh burn on that-guy-who-said-that hard!

But yeah, shitty history jokes aside, there's no such thing as 'just' words, because what matters is the meaning beneath them, the context in which they are said, and the people who are inspired by them that gives them power.

.... That and I really wanna read the rest of your Trepidation story >//> Honesty is the best policy, but my point still stands~

Don't mind them Jay. Writing is about making it MORE than words. Words have power. Words have meaning, and weaving those words and syllables together to create deeper, impacting meaning is what makes writers, artists. Don't let anyone tel you that your stories are "Just words" because that means my art is "just lines" or that fursuits are "just cloth." It ain't true so don't even listen.

<3

Who's the dumbass that told you this? He's literally stupid. Literature's created so much in the world, and if you can't appreciate it, you're basically either one of those people who ride Rascals around Wal-Mart because they're too lazy to walk, or you're the kind of person who thinks hitting your kids is a good form of punishment.

Basically, if you're too lazy to read, you're a few steps away from trailer trash. :3

THAT IS BULL SHIT!!! you the fuck said that. "Tucked In" the story you wrote is way better then any drawn or animated vore I've ever seen, and it's only about one page long. Whoever told you that, tell them to shove their cock up their own ass and fuck themselves, and remind him to film it because that's a pretty amazing talent they have there.

A lot of writing IS just words, its the goal of an author/writer/poet/whateverthingieperson to make their own writing into more than just words. That is the whole point of writing

So yea, in a way the person that said that writing was just words was correct, especially because the degree of "more than just words" varies from person to person.

Hope you can make your writing at that level for yourself and, of course, for other people. I haven't read something of yours for a while so i cant say anything about it right now to be honest

Go for it.

Just words huh?
Whoever told you that is probably just sour because they can't get "just words" on paper to write as well as you can.

Just words? That's silly. Words are extremely powerful. For example, logging onto a messenger and seeing an awesome master's name is online makes this tiger smile and lifts my mood considerably. Reading really great works by an author who worked hard enough to at least finish it makes each sentence more meaningful as they tell what was going on in the author's head at the time. Sorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense due to my exhaustion, but I hope my point at least makes it across.

Fuck 'em, I say


D: And don't be down! You're one of the reasons I even -took- a stab at writing myself! I NEED SOMEONE TO CRITIQUE ME BACK WHO I KNOW IS CREDIBLE ;o;

Sure its just words, but different combinations of words can provoke emotions, The skill in writing, as i'm sure you know, is how reading what you've written makes people feel.

Writers struggle the most I think. I myself am a writer. This person, whoever said it, has no right to say that if he/she has ever written something that they are very proud of before in their entire life.

Heh. :) Well, I may have already told you that I gave up drawing and stuck to writing because I felt like it was a more satisfying way of making my imagination "real".

It's hard to argue against the idea that writing is, fundamentally, an exercise in drawing from a finite collection of building blocks and trying to arrange them in a useful way, and that the physical thing you end up with is a piece of paper with some ink on it. Similarly, writing a video game comes down to arranging ones and zeros in the proper order, and the thing you end up with is a small plastic circle with a shiny side.

The object of writing isn't to create words; it's to create a story or deliver an idea. The words are merely the delivery mechanism. When the words are interpreted, the story comes out. Your reader may not be able to see or hear or touch what's happening, but if you do your job right, they'll know what it would be like to see or hear or touch what's happening, and sometimes that's just as good. It's still one of the most powerful ways to store and share a series of events -- you can create a rich narrative in a complete world in a format that doesn't take up a lot of space or resources, and other people can experience it with nothing more than their eyes.

Try not to worry too much about the material aspect. It's not as limiting as you'd think.

Bastard! Why would someone say that?

Seriously, they may "just" be words, but that's fine. Words work on the imagination in a way pictures cannot. They let the reader imagine what the characters look like with only minor help from adjectives describing nouns. They let one's brain fill in the missing pieces.

For instance... You could be a young, toned, handsome hunk of a skunk with a unique pattern of stripes running crisscrossed down your back and tail, ending in a white tuft of fur on your head. You can have a drop-dead gorgeous smile as you wink and motion someone forward so they can bury their hands, or paws in your velvety fur, feeling the warmth of your body heat radiating through their fingers as you give their head a gentle rumple with your own handpaw.

How many panels of action did you just describe? It took me about two or three minutes to write that. How long would it take an artist to accomplish the same in as much detail as was described? In addition, what else could a person come up with on their own? I said a crisscrossing of stripes... They could be in a ton of patterns, a few stripes, a lot of stripes... I said you were toned, but how toned? Buff? Still soft-looking? Strong, but with a nice, jelly-belly leftover? ;3

See, I do think that words stick more than images; but that's just me. Just ignore the idiots who tell you that your work is no good.

Anyone that needs pictures to tell them what their mind should be seeing needs to have their eyes gouged out...

your words mean the world to me, your thoughts are wonderous, you are lovely and an incredible writer, don't give up the fight, I love ya, my friend

there are some people out there that prefer words and that over pictures, atleast i know i do ^^