Easy-to-Read Stories are Boring

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se for me, ‘easy to drink’ wine is boring, meaning nothing special.</p><p id="ea54">Isn’t it the same about the writers?</p><p id="4030">Since I started as a freelance writer in Japanese I have been told; Your writing is easy to understand, I smoothly read to the end of your writing.</p><p id="010e">I was happy to hear their feedback like that, but I don’t want to be just an ‘easy-to-understand’ writer anymore.</p><p id="2ff7">If people can read smoothly to the end of your stories, it is a good quality that you have as a writer. However, I am no longer aiming at that point.</p><p id="13f2">I want to be a writer who can write the stories that you want to read over and over. “Hum…, I don’t really understand this part” — I want you to reverse my paragraph and read it again. As I wrote <a href="https://readmedium.com/no-title-2-6640e60f9664">in a poem</a> before;</p><p id="167f" type="7">I want you to read these sentences as if you were licking my words with your eyeballs.</p><p id="67c2">Writing is an addiction and reading is an addiction too. After you have fallen in love with reading, you will want to read unique and creative pieces which are not necessarily easy to read. Eating spicy food is an addiction as well. If you have eaten lot

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s of spicy food, you will want to eat spicier. It is the same thing.</p><p id="8d4b">I have some books which I haven’t finished yet or which I didn’t understand clearly the last time I read them. In the book shop, there are many easy-to-read books some of which you would not want to keep on your shelves after you have read them once.</p><p id="c593">My stories don’t want to be abandoned. One day, I want to create stories which you want to read again after you have read them once. I don’t mind being told that my stories are not easy, still, I want to draw my world consistently.</p><div id="d2e6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/when-the-poet-gets-transformed-into-a-beast-15cbeeaa6fdc"> <div> <div> <h2>When the poet gets transformed into a beast</h2> <div><h3>The Moon Over the Mountain (Japanese title: 山月記Sangetsuki) — by Atsushi Nakajima</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*M6u7HqF8bvTdCDoziekklA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Where is my ideal writer?

I like drinking wine as well as Sake, which is Japanese rice wine. When I drink wine, I always try to write reviews about it on my blog. When I drink wine with friends, we talk about the wine and tell each other if we like the wine and what we think about the taste. Most of the time, if they say ‘easy to drink’, it means that the wine is good, but I think that comment is boring, to be honest with you.

If your life has nothing to do with writing or languages, every time ‘easy to drink’ is OK. However, I want to make a living on writing, so I cannot be someone who is lacking vocabulary.

Easy to drink and smooth — it’s fine, but can’t you say anything else? Because for me, ‘easy to drink’ wine is boring, meaning nothing special.

Isn’t it the same about the writers?

Since I started as a freelance writer in Japanese I have been told; Your writing is easy to understand, I smoothly read to the end of your writing.

I was happy to hear their feedback like that, but I don’t want to be just an ‘easy-to-understand’ writer anymore.

If people can read smoothly to the end of your stories, it is a good quality that you have as a writer. However, I am no longer aiming at that point.

I want to be a writer who can write the stories that you want to read over and over. “Hum…, I don’t really understand this part” — I want you to reverse my paragraph and read it again. As I wrote in a poem before;

I want you to read these sentences as if you were licking my words with your eyeballs.

Writing is an addiction and reading is an addiction too. After you have fallen in love with reading, you will want to read unique and creative pieces which are not necessarily easy to read. Eating spicy food is an addiction as well. If you have eaten lots of spicy food, you will want to eat spicier. It is the same thing.

I have some books which I haven’t finished yet or which I didn’t understand clearly the last time I read them. In the book shop, there are many easy-to-read books some of which you would not want to keep on your shelves after you have read them once.

My stories don’t want to be abandoned. One day, I want to create stories which you want to read again after you have read them once. I don’t mind being told that my stories are not easy, still, I want to draw my world consistently.