I too am on the agreement side. The shortstory used to be a hugely popular medium, now it's practically dead. Poetry has seen better days. I don't know about death, but triviality.
From a larger perspective, what will this do to storytelling? We all know some novels whose stories are medium-specific. Will the types of stories that can be told dwindle?
Anyway, I've been playing with this very idea in a fictional blog I'm working on:
[pagezeroblog.blogspot.com]#philiproth
I too am on the agreement side. The shortstory used to be a hugely popular medium, now it's practically dead. Poetry has seen better days. I don't know about death, but triviality.
From a larger perspective, what will this do to storytelling? We all know some novels whose stories are medium-specific. Will the types of stories that can be told dwindle?
Anyway, I've been playing with this very idea in a fictional blog I'm working on:
[pagezeroblog.blogspot.com]#philiproth