What are we doing here

I’ve always enjoyed the written word. In a world where we have so much content at our fingertips, be it video or audio, short form or long form, there is something about the written word itself that is almost magical. To this point I remarked to my spouse the other day how hard it is for movies to convey certain fundamental elements of experience such as smell. Whenever a movie does this, whether through scripted dialogue or some other mechanism, I am very appreciative of both the writer and the director in their attention to detail that draws the viewer in. However, in a book this is almost the defacto, for without a description of the important elements of a scene there is no book. This flexibility gives almost complete creative control to the author of the written word.