Jack M. Neigut
New Member
I am re introducing myself. A couple years ago I joined Book & Reader Forums as an aspiring young author looking for advice. What I received was that I was treated in the opposite manner. At that point I had not been published and it was the first of a trilogy of stories. Now expecting constructive criticism! The piece was criticized from beginning to end. For grammar, for content, for just about everything and my knowledge of science was criticized by two contributors, one of who worked for the forum. They both criticized it do death. They said the science was wrong and they insulted my intelligence for the writing. What these two didn't realize was that it was their own misunderstanding of the subject that led them to believe they were right. I was very well qualified to write about the subjects in the book. I majored in Biology in a local College and I also majored in Physics at the University of Maryland for two years. I revised and edited the first part of the Trilogy and wrote the second. This time I was going to use all my knowledge of science and when I was through. I had a few pages that Stephen Hawking would take a few days to explain, but I made it general enough that most people could understand it. Finally I completed the book and it was reviewed by one of Americas leading critics and his review of it said: “not only flowed smoothly but kept the reader both interested and entertained right to the end.” Well it was published and is available online at a few of America’s best online booksellers. Since then I have written other books, one about the Zone System for photography. I did not want the work of Ansel Adams and the use of film to die. So I used all my knowledge of science and photography to create the book. It explains exactly Ansel Adam's Zone System, interpreted to read in a little more understandable way. You will come away with the full knowledge of the Zone System and I have also been including the bridge to digital photography and some chapters on digital photography alone. If your waiting for the point to all this. I am coming to it. This book on the zone system has been published and is my number one best seller. I have sold books around the world. It especially sells well in Great Britain and there are some available as a pdf download, but 98% are sold as books. Well my third book, I am not so fond of. The first story is worth the price of whole book. It is a satire of George W. Bush and his administration. Now bear in mind that I have won awards on political writing and the first story is hilarious, but Republicans generally don't care for it. Along the way I have become friends with M.C. Gupta MD., a man who made his life in India and still lives there today. He started as Medical Doctor. Then became a professor of Medicine at University for over twenty years and finally became a Lawyer and has his own Law Practice in India dealing with malpractice suits. He is a very well respected man in India and a published author. Along the way I have made another long term acquaintance: James Walter Orr. Who is a political activist and writer. He has written a couple short pieces for me and we share the same political beliefs. So why am I complaining about my bad treatment on this forum? Well, because I don't like nonconstructive criticism. I believe it destroys a beginner’s confidence. It’s insulting and in fact it serves no purpose, after the insults especially the one where I was brutally assaulted by one man with profanities one after the other. Don't believe me? Find my email address and I will send you the transcript of the profanity used. It isn’t pretty.
