FYI: People often ask me to tell them, or teach them, how to write well.
Not in my craziest dreams — or, to be more precise, in my worst nightmares — would I ever say I know how to write well. I rarely look at anything I’ve ever written without seeing a blighted mess of mushy language and shoddy thinking. I write at least 50 columns a year at The Wall Street Journal, along with plenty of other articles there and a few posts that I publish only here (like this one!). Once, twice, maybe three times a year, I write something I’m proud of. I want to take almost everything else I’ve ever written out behind the barn and bury it. So the idea that I can tell or teach you how to write well strikes me as ridiculous.
Regards,
Ted
http://jasonzweig.com/on-writing-better-part-1/
