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Creative writing is a good analogy. All artists have to be taught, even if they teach themselves. Same with programming. When asked to say, draw a picture of t
by chippy 14y ago
Creative writing is a good analogy. All artists have to be taught, even if they teach themselves. Same with programming.
When asked to say, draw a picture of this house, most trained artists, who have learnt the mechanics should be able to do a faithful rendition of that house. The same with a small program, most trained programmers will be able to make it, using their skills.
However, where both great artists and great programmers are the same is that they bring something more than the sum total of the parts to their work. This something more is what cannot be taught.
- thirdtruck 14y agoI want to recommend "The Artful Edit". It takes an all too infrequent approach to teaching how to edit and actually shows the before-and-after work of great authors. In this case, the reader sees quite a bit of Fitzgerald's process deconstructed. Having seen the changes required of the first draft, it left me with much higher hopes for leveling up my own writing.