This morning, I took the time to follow a few Facebook links posted by people I know. Each took me to a piece of fine writing recently posted in cyberspace. The articles are quite different from one another, but what they all have in common is the high caliber with which they are written. I’ll provide links to the articles — as well as to two other examples of fine writing I came across recently — at the end of this post.
Some people are not convinced that the quality of their writing — correctness of punctuation, accuracy of spelling, smoothness of sentence flow, and so on — really matters. “People know what I mean!” groused one writer for whom I used to proofread. “And if they don’t get it, they’re not the kind of readers I want reading my stuff anyway.” Well! Read the rest of this entry »
