You wrote: "These positions gave me an enormous appreciation for just how difficult it is for most people to produce quality writing, just how defensive most people can be about really bad writing, and just how difficult it can be to reach a consensus on what good writing actually is when more than one editor's viewpoint must be appeased."

Having taken several adult-level creative writing classes taught by published authors, I can attest to the truth of this statement. If anything, I thought that bad writing was confined to would-be novelists.

Then again, explaining an idea or describing an object briefly in simple language is a lot more difficult than it appears to those who don't do a lot of writing.

Geoff

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Posted by llywrch to XODP Blog at 3/07/2007 10:40:51 AM