[quote=@Bluetommy]
I'm also going to say that if someone is writing "to make art" they're doing it for the wrong reasons. You shouldn't write to make art, you should write to express something that has meaning to you, regardless of how "artsy" that is. I've never met someone who reads books for the prose, its about the story and the message, regardless of how that's presented. I don't think it's about mass appeal or trying to be popular, because if using simple prose made things more popular then Ayn Rand wouldn't have so many fans. Some of the best fiction doesn't do anything extraordinary with its prose. 1984 has very basic prose when you look at it but that doesn't make it any less emotionally draining a read.

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The statement "Writing to make art" was me saying in a tongue-and-cheek-way that the people who'd avoid "Said" at every cost wouldn't be on a roleplaying forum because they're too busy revolutionising the medium of text.

People who write as an artform don't exactly make books like 1984, at any rate. They're using and abusing literature in different ways, and the most common form to show this with is poetry.

Writing can absolutely be an artform, but the kind of people who'd do that, and thus avoid the mundane usage of words as we do it, woudln't be here on a fucking RP forum. Therefor, just use Said.

I realise it's a bit disconnected from the whole "bad advice" context of the thread, but that's also why it's a rant and I didn't write it out at first until Broken very clearly didn't know what I was on about for a moment.

Also, rants like that are written at the dead of night for me when I'm low on brain juice. Certain details slip my mind in those moments.

EDITS: To clarify a bit further; the statement "If it is literally any other reason" is meant to indicate that, outside of that very specific context, it's fine to rely on 'Said' as a word. And I doubt even a single person on this site unironically considers himself to be writing art, thus, they should be comfortable using the word "Said". Get the idea, now?