You have to learn

Comment seen on substack:

so now people are pretending like you need an editor to be on substack?! lmaoooo the point is to get rid of gatekeepers and hurdles and barriers shut uupp

i write in lowercase and sometimes not and i definitely make typos and none of it serious. we’re all exploring our writing style and that’s literally what art is about.

I didn’t bother to argue. Most people start with this attitude, usually expressed a bit more elegantly. You have to learn by experience. Sooner or later you recognize that art is LITERALLY ABOUT EDITING. Creativity is easy. A dust storm or a roulette wheel is creative. SELECTING material that will endure or sell is hard.

God wants us to add value and beauty to the world, not to generate unfiltered noise. Inanimate objects are random generators. Life is an editor.