Graphic Writing

[cacian]

I was wondering whether you enjoyed heavily detailed writing.
Sometimes I come across stories with very many details almost intense decriptions.
I enjoy reading with something to guess. I like to be left with an impression something I can draw for myself.
For example describing someone's injury can be quite distressing to read if there is a lot of gory details of everything on the body as well as the feelings the character is undergoing.
Spoonfeeding the reader with every possible shot of an act or a scene or even a character's physique can sometime distract from the aim of the story or even how it is written.
Language is a discovery of meanings feelings and imagination or so I like to think.
So I write with an ''exterior'' that is appealing enough for the reader to want to find out more.
I guess ''sexy'' writing comes in to mind where mystery is in the air but not too much so not as to lure.
Exhibit but do not inhibit is the idea.

Do you write graphic or do you shallow write for ideas to swim?

[tonywalt]

I like it Full On.

[stlukesguild]

I like Wagner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0PpTPvbr-4

and I like Erik Satie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU

I like Rubens:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_34religi-1.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=34religi-1.jpg)

and I like Matisse:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_matisse_rifain_assis-2.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=matisse_rifain_assis-2.jpg)

I like a New York Strip steak on the grill with a baked potato and a glass of good dark beer...

and I like a marvelous Steak Marsala with a side of Tuscan Pasta with tomatoes and basil etc...

In other words I don't like to limit myself to one style. Cacian's question seems loaded... suggesting that a richly descriptive style with a sensuous use of vocabulary is somehow inferior to a more minimal style of writing. Personally, I don't find Shakespeare or Spenser or Baudelaire or Proust to be "spoonfeeding" or detract from the narrative (as if the narrative were the sole of primary concern of writing). Honestly, I like the crisp, stripped-down prose of Hemingway, Borges, and Kafka... and the "minimalism" of Dickinson and Paul Celan but honestly... for me "more is more" more often than "less is more"... but I like both for what they have to offer.

[cacian]

Your posts are always fascinating Stlukes and I enjoy reading all of them because they always tell a story. :)
The Rubens painting for me is an injection of a dimensional therapy of pain and beauty. It is stunningly executed that one could not help but want to stare at and look at. I find the subject/concept picture immensely sad and distressing and the feelings it leaves me with is an unsettle one.
Had the painting been a photograph it would have been almost too frantic and less clean to look at.
I guess I seek art as a renovator of ideas and not an innovator of a what a reality that could have been is was.
I am now wondering what is actually happening with the person depicted wearing the red long tunic doing as his/her face is hidden from the viewer but onto the Christ's injury. All sorts of dark ideas are suddenly going through my mind but not for very long.

Paintings or writing that draws one onto the 'dark and uneasy' unknown I find less appealing for the simple reason that it is an easy route to take.
The uneasy unknown slows my imagination down . It pierces through my ideas like a sharp spike and leaves me shattered unable to resume or think.
I wish to capture a beautiful way of thinking because it would help me achieve simplicity and motivates me to become part of that nice feeling.
I personally can only write when I am feeling good. Depression or feeling low hinders my writing.
I am after visuals or reading that take me to another level and enable me to imagine for myself different thoughts and open doors to new waves of thinking. I must because if I am to advance in creating something that empowers me and others to think further onto an new imagination that overflows with ideas that promote art and well being.
I guess I wish not to follow in the footsteps of others but rather indent my owns whilst in parallel with the past ones.
Parallel thinking cross in view of new ones and not in innovation of past ones.