NP: Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sun Nov 15 12:02:44 CST 2009


Or it could just be interpreted as logorrhea and dismissed as noise.

On Nov 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> The assumption that one always writes to be read retards development.
> The rhetorical method: topic purpose, audience, form, or Subject,
> Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker (SOAPS), can provide much needed
> structure and organization to writers in the early stages of
> development, but the conversational method has as much merit as the
> traditional and conventional paragraphing method. Blog away and  aim
> away and text away and scribble away and keep notes in the margin and
> doodle  . . . and pun and play and tom fool errrr,  for it is often
> when we errr that we discover. That a reader must be subjected to our
> errrs is another matter, but to argue that the egg on Alice's face is
> Humpty's yoke is to stretch a weighty metaphor tautologically across
> the broad shoulders of weak oxens and plow the boundaries of
> blunderland.




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