Read. Alan Cheuse (NPR) told me that when I took my advanced fiction writing course and later my independent study which produced the first draft of my novel. Read and learn from what others have written, is what my teachers told me when I was growing up. I went to many different schools and had many different instructors, but the lesson was always the same. Great writers absorb and learn from great writers. This is an attempt to end that tradition of literature building on top of literature. Further it misses the point of great art. How many stories have been told and written of starving artists who endured not because of great wealth but often in spite of it. Art, whether in literary expression or code is the germination of the intangible, a compulsion. This guy's front page has the word thieves in it. Well that is what is going on here, theft. This is theft of the artistic tradition. If this indeed an attempt to grab what little money real artists have this individual discredits the greatness of those who proceeded him, as well as those who would follow him. He ignores the concepts and ideas upon which future concepts will and should be built and discredits those of the past. In his desire to prove himself unique he does himself and the tradition a great disservice and made himself a cliche'.
That is my opinion.
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Read. Alan Cheuse (NPR) told me that when I took my advanced fiction writing course and later my independent study which produced the first draft of my novel. Read and learn from what others have written, is what my teachers told me when I was growing up. I went to many different schools and had many different instructors, but the lesson was always the same. Great writers absorb and learn from great writers. This is an attempt to end that tradition of literature building on top of literature. Further it misses the point of great art. How many stories have been told and written of starving artists who endured not because of great wealth but often in spite of it. Art, whether in literary expression or code is the germination of the intangible, a compulsion. This guy's front page has the word thieves in it. Well that is what is going on here, theft. This is theft of the artistic tradition. If this indeed an attempt to grab what little money real artists have this individual discredits the greatness of those who proceeded him, as well as those who would follow him. He ignores the concepts and ideas upon which future concepts will and should be built and discredits those of the past. In his desire to prove himself unique he does himself and the tradition a great disservice and made himself a cliche'. That is my opinion.