User blog comment:Olivemeister/Starting work on a page for Nanika/@comment-5780397-20170214134808/@comment-26871067-20170215000018

I don't think it's too egregious, at least not any of the things I've seen. Mostly I was going through articles that mention Alluka and Nanika, and I just ended up going "Oh! I can simplify a lot of this, can't I..."

There's this idea that's pretty prolific which is "Anyone can write, there's no skill involved and you don't start off bad and become good. It's all dependent on how hard you're trying." I don't think that's true at all. I do think anyone can become good at writing, but the idea that it's just something you sit down and can automatically do... but I guess that says more about the way society tends to undervalue art. I think writing gets the shortest end of this stick (excepting possibly computer animation since people seem to think it's "hit button, thing happens").

Since I've been writing for years, I've gotten good at cutting down on wordy sentences and phrasing things in easily understood terms. That's not me tooting my own horn, rather me saying "it's a lot harder than most people pretend, so don't be hard on yourself".