Archive for March 12th, 2009
Every writer’s biggest mistake - and what to do about it
No matter what it is we’re writing, from a book chapter to a letter to a friend, there’s one mistake we’re more likely to make than any other. And it’s a bad mistake, too - a source of confusion and misunderstanding in our readers, a defilement that if we knew of it would seem as gross as a blotted mosquito or coffee spill on the page. Yet for all this, we no more see the damn thing than we can see a molecule of air! It’s as if a hypnotist had seduced us into adding nonsense words to our prose, which everyone can see but us.
