Do You Find Many Writers To Be "Pretentious"?

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Well-played Foxxx... You win this round.

 

Don't forget the fans. There are some insufferably pretentious people out there that don't create anything at all. Film buffs, music aficionados and avid readers can be even worse than the artists. Some even make careers out of it.

A sentiment I've seen expressed several times on WF from unpublished writers, so I'd say yes, writers can be extremely pretentious.

 

fair question.
Tolstoy in his fiftees started to question his own writing. He was not so proud of his famous books War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He felt as if his life as a writer was superficial and meaningless.
He really went through an existential crisis and made sure he never had a gun with him in case he committed suicide.
Those gifted with language skills are often intellectuals who are tempted to look down on others with less skill.
Intellectuals are prone to pretension.

 

Jesus Christ's least favourite group were the intellectuals who included Scribes / Pharisees. But there must have been some more humble intellectuals to write the Bible for Him. Thank God for Christians!!

 

Only if "pretension" is a word for being a snob that doesn't apply to all the other kinds of snobs.

 

Hey, I don't think being an intellectual makes someone a snob. I do think academia lives in some sort of bubble quite often, but that doesn't mean those people are snobs. They just like reading lots of books and exploring the layers of literature. Sure, that's not everyone's thing. And that's quite possibly why people say the "academic bubble." I'm not calling myself an intellectual (though I might try to look like one at certain parties), but I do know intellectuals. I like talking to them and learning from them. Sure, they read a hundred books a day, but that has nothing to do with being pretentious. It's a choice on how they spend their time. I'm not saying that there aren't pretentious writers, but I find the whole process quite humbling. My best attempts are often failures, but not all the time. Every time I publish, I'm amazed on how such a thing happened. I have to wonder if the editorial team was all drunk or something when they want my work. I don't think I'm a snob or pretentious, but I do get lucky sometimes. And I don't think big credits or awards make someone a snob either. They just have really good stories to tell.

 

Pharisees?

Intellectually and morally corrupt nonproductive know-it-alls who were keen to virtue signal, were good in networking, never did any real works, were in privileged position but still whined and played "oppressed marthyr" card all the time and did not do anything real for anything they whined.

And they were the corner stone of totalitarian regime.

I'm glad we don't have that kind of folks any more.

 

Yeah, I admit it. I can be, but only when I'm stoned.