Comments on: Will Good Writing Be A Lost Art? http://www.lynntruong.com/will-good-writing-be-a-lost-art Entrepreneur. Writer. Only Child. Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Greg http://www.lynntruong.com/will-good-writing-be-a-lost-art/comment-page-1#comment-5 Greg Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:43:45 +0000 http://www.lynntruong.com/?p=19#comment-5 Check out this post (and lively discussion in the comments) at Skelliewag about "good writing and the web". http://www.skelliewag.org/why-great-writing-doesnt-matter-online-246.htm I just read it today, and combined with your post has me thinking about the Internet's impact on the quality of writing. I don't think good writing is a lost art. My theory is that bad writers didn't have an outlet before the Net. Now they do. So bad writing is more visible. So maybe the percentage of good writing has decreased, and there's more noise to sift through nowadays, but good writing (and good writers) will always be around. Check out this post (and lively discussion in the comments) at Skelliewag about “good writing and the web”.

http://www.skelliewag.org/why-great-writing-doesnt-matter-online-246.htm

I just read it today, and combined with your post has me thinking about the Internet’s impact on the quality of writing.

I don’t think good writing is a lost art. My theory is that bad writers didn’t have an outlet before the Net. Now they do. So bad writing is more visible.

So maybe the percentage of good writing has decreased, and there’s more noise to sift through nowadays, but good writing (and good writers) will always be around.

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