The abstractness being discussed here is regarding expressing the feelings. Writing expresses the feelings, views, emotions, and stance on a particular subject.
Just like any other art form, writing too is considered to be an art form. Simplistically speaking, while other art forms such as painting, music, or dance have some degree of abstractness attached to it, writing is one art form which is not so abstract. The abstractness being discussed here is regarding expressing the feelings. Writing expresses the feelings, views, emotions, and stance on a particular subject.
Though we say that the degree of abstractness is not so high in writing, the beauty of writing is that if the writing community wants, they can introduce abstractness to any degree. It is more evident in case of writing poetry. The most prominent poets have mastered the art of abstractness and with such abstractness in mind; the poets take the reader on a virtual journey with their lines.
While poetry is more abstract, stories are a genre which has interested the readers more than ever. Almost all human beings have loved stories from their very childhood. Thus, stories find a huge audience as compared to any other genre of writing. Though it might seem like a simple task of writing a story and developing a plot around the characters is a difficult task.
Interestingly both these genre of writings have their beauty, and these genres are not easy to be written. When the writers take such pain in creating their masterpieces, they should be appreciated well too. Appreciation cannot be better than associating a competition and a prize with such emotional expressions. This prize somehow further motivates the writers to write better.
Various writing forums which are the latest writing and expressing platforms for the writers motivate the writers to write a story or a poem and enter the multiple competitions such as poetry contests in 2018 or similar contests of writing a story and win attractive prizes. The various poetry contests of 2018 taking place across such writing forums have also introduced the innovative genres of poems such as the 5-7-5 style of poetry.