CompuServe Messages

Tom, No, I never said that you could contract out 'inspiration'. Certainly there are so called artists who have great ideas…but no talent to carry that idea thru to a work of art. However, what I did say was that no matter how inspired you are, and no matter how fast it was produced…there is some trial and error that goes into the product. You mentioned Harold Robbins. Are you telling me that he (or multiple 'hes') sat at a typewritter, started typing and never went back over the work. Then took this work and shipped it to a publisher who didn't have it proof-read and simply had it type-set and printed and distributed? Of course not, the writter got an idea for a novel, started to put that idea on paper and in the process read and re-read it and in the process changed what was originaly put on the paper. They didn't change each and every word, they may have only changed a few words in the entire novel…but I can almost guarantee you something was changed from what was first put on the paper. A ditch is a simple idea, simple to conceptualize and simple to create. BUT, that also presumes that the person who is to dig the ditch is able to carry out that task. Give my 2 year old a backhoe and I don't think you'd get the ditch you conceptualized. Artistry is much more complex, both in conceptualization and in creation of the final product. And thus there is a much more limited group of those able to carry out the task. So limited, that in fact, the person who got the idea is the probably the only one who could carry out the task, but not without some trial and error. Don