[FOOT] I (heart) Novels

I love technology. I really do. And while I love this article, and I think it's great people are writing, this is not literature. In any form. This is whiny a group of people with self-esteem issues writing their diaries in public and getting paid for it. Yes, it's real in every way, but people are also aware of that now, so they'll fluff up their own stories.

Sure, the first girls story is cool, Mone. It had a sense of authenticity to it. And it was admitted to be this stream of consciousness diary. Which it is. And that's it.

I understand the times are changing and writing will be done in different ways, but there is a difference between spilling your guts on your phone and writing a piece of literature. It's different mental processes. The former allows lax writing abilities to pass as worthwhile, when all it does is hinder language from its most complex intricacies that make literature so worthwhile in the first place. The latter forces the creative insides come out and to use language in a way that is interesting and forces people to view things differently.

Leave diaries in 13 year old's closets.