For those who haven’t read the facts about me, I went to school for rhetorical communications studies. Basically it means my communication focus was more on the words someone chose than the whole of what they were saying. I spent 4 years learning the idiosyncrasies in word choice and what it meant for a person and their speaking persona if they chose a specific word....
I love words. The problem is, I love fun, mouthy words…ones that make you pause, and re-read them. Words you rarely hear in common discourse but love to say. The problem is, in writing, these are words you should avoid as according to Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability one should write for about the 8th grade reading level, unless you are writing technical documents. This past...
On Monday, I posed the question: “What makes writing so important“. I was attempting to make the point that writing is a freedom that we are given, and that we often take it for granted, forgetting how we got to where we are. I examined the difficulty that it used to take to get your writing seen, and wondered whether the difficulty made that writing...
