user drcp.
If you've read my e-mail very carefully I meant writing in the context
of the now lost art of writing, the art of conveying and sharing,
expressing of ideas and not exclusively in the area of just publication
from the professional author/publisher point of view.
As for the "off my rocker" comment I'll take that as a fair friendly
aside. I still firmly believe that the author still plays a very
important part of the discipline in the writing process itself. No
matter if he's witting a computer program, newsletter or creating a DVD
he or she must by all means ensure that the words reflect the correct
content and meaning there's just no way around it. Just letting the
publisher worry about all the mechanics is a lazy man's way of writing a
good book or newsletter of which I've known about since 1989. You may
call the mechanics of writing boring but it too is a very essential part
of the writing process. In fact how can anyone possibly read a book if
all of the punctuation, spelling, quotes and paragraphs are all wrong
and out of sequence? I certainly can't read such a book or newsletter.
Have you ever though about that?
Not to insult you personally at all but I simply find that any person
who finds the mechanics of writing simply boring certainly without a
shadow of a doubt must have hated English or reading books in school.
This is an insult to those who like to write anything even newsletters
to post on the web. To me the mechanics of writing is the true essence
and art of writing. Have you the author of your newsletter thought of
this point to say the least?
You should my friend because since you are currently writing your
newsletter you are the sole creator, editor and publisher of your own
work rightfully so. So with logic reasoning here all I can say is you
must be paying close attention to the mechanics of writing aren't you?
Don't you want to make sure that your ideas are clean, clear, easy to
understand and read with fun or authority? If you said yes then good for
you!
Writers the likes of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and George Orwell's
"1984" did it the hard way: they wrote with pen and paper and typewriter
as opposed to today's electronic publishing now everyone can be an
author/publisher.
Just foisting the work entirely on the copy editor alone does not
constitute good writing nor does it justify calling a published book or
newsletter where the author is in this case the editor himself a good
work. The author must keep in constant contact with the copy editor all
throughout the process in order to keep his or her work intact.
Still its the author, the sole creator and originator of the work who
must ensure that what he or she writes doesn't get their works destroyed
or taken entirely out of context by the editor's work. In fact I'm the
author and editor of this e-mail sent to you. My ideas and writing as of
this communication must be clear to you because as a well educated man
I've thought very carefully about what I was going to write about
exactly before I committed finger to keyboard as my art of writing
mechanics demonstrate perfectly here inside this e-mail that I've just
sent to you. This e-mail demonstrates the art of civility (see
paragraphs 1-3), nuance again (paragraphs 1 - 3) and logic clear chain
of though and reasoning at its upmost. ( Last 5 paragraphs here to the
end ).
These are the factors that are very important to make the art of
writing come alive and make reading and writing a very enjoyable
experience :)
Marc Sims
Technician I
Technology Services
Prince George's Community College
301 Largo Rd.
Largo, MD 20774-2199
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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